![]() ![]() Plug It In, Plug It In - This brings us to the second thing Audio Hijack Pro does: it can process the sound digitally as it records it. And if all you want to do is record the sound coming into your computer, you might be happier with a program such as the $30 Amadeus II, which records the sound, lets you edit it (including click and pop removal and application of many other effects and filters), and can save to more file formats – and costs less – than Audio Hijack Pro. There is also the free Jack OS X, though this requires a separate application to generate the final sound file, and is more work to set up. Plus, even Audio Hijack has competitors: Ambrosia Software’s new WireTap Pro (which replaces their earlier free WireTap) is just $19 and can record to various formats. Still, AIFF is the best format for editing your sound files, and you can always use iTunes or any other QuickTime-savvy program to convert from AIFF to one of those other formats afterwards so you might reasonably feel that the capability to record directly to a compressed format on the fly is no great advantage. The main difference is that Audio Hijack records only to 16-bit AIFF files you can set the sample rate, but that’s your only choice. There’s Audio Hijack’s non-Pro little brother, Audio Hijack, which is only $16, and does the same thing. Granted, $32 is not a lot of money but there are alternatives that are cheaper still. ![]() At the other end of the scale of sound quality and file size, I can digitize a cassette tape or vinyl LP of classical music by recording in 24-bit AIFF format from my Tascam USB box, to which my stereo system is hooked up.Įven if this is does interest you, though, you still might not feel that it’s worth paying $32 for Audio Hijack Pro. For example, if I want to make a quick audio note to myself, I can set Audio Hijack Pro to record from the internal microphone to a highly compressed 32 Kbps MP3 file and just speak directly at my computer. So, if sound appears at your built-in microphone, your Line In port, or at your USB port through a "breakout box" such as the Griffin iMic or RadioSHARK, or any of a large number of other more-sophisticated devices, you can record it. Also, what’s generating the sound doesn’t have to an application it can be a port. The recording that Audio Hijack Pro generates can be a sound file in any of several standard compressed or uncompressed formats: 16-bit AIFF, 24-bit AIFF, MP3, AAC, or Apple’s new lossless (ALAC) format. And so forth – if any application on your computer is generating sound, you can record it. Similarly you can record the soundtrack from a DVD that you watch with DVD Player. But that sound is coming out of your computer, so with Audio Hijack Pro, you can record it. The actual sound exists only as it streams. With RealPlayer, there is no sound file: you download a tiny file to start with, but that’s essentially just a URL. For example, you might be listening to an audio stream via the Internet using RealPlayer – a live radio station webcast, perhaps, or a replay of some earlier show. To see why this is useful, think about sounds your computer generates from time to time that you might like to record to a file. Yet this second thing is extremely cool and, as far as I can tell, quite unique.įirst Things First - The first thing Audio Hijack Pro does is simple to describe: it records to a sound file any sound that your computer is generating. So, in reading about it, if you don’t particularly want it for the first thing it does, the second thing it does might not even register upon your consciousness. The conceptual difficulty is that Audio Hijack Pro occupies two niches at once – it does two quite different things. ![]() Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro is a great program, but it seems to me that the developer’s own Web pages fail to explain exactly why. #1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request music. ![]() #1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?. ![]()
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