Audio Hijack 3 – Record any audio, with Audio Hijack! Save audio from applications like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.Transcribing audio is easier than ever, with global keyboard shortcuts. Never leave your text editing app! Easily export Sessions to share with other people or import Session, so you can see exactly how someone else has things set. Handy!

Features

Record Any App

Just select an application and hit Record. Now you’re saving its audio!

Record From Devices

Record from microphones, mixers, or other audio input devices.

Record System Audio

The System Audio source helps you record all the audio heard on your Mac.

Record Web Streams

There’s oodles of streaming audio on the web. Use Audio Hijack to save it.

VoIP Recording

Easily save conversations from Skype, FaceTime, Google Talk, and more.

Podcast Recording

Customizable source and recording options give podcasters full control.

Increase the Volume

Stuck with small laptop speakers? Use Volume Overdrive to crank things past 100%.

Import Analog Content

If you still have music on tapes or vinyl, Audio Hijack can help you digitize it.

Pull From DVDs

Import audio from concert DVDs, movies, and more, for listening in iTunes and beyond.

Easy Recording Defaults

If you don’t know much about audio formats, Audio Hijack is here to help.

So Much More!

• Use the Template Chooser to get a preconfigured Session. Tweak as needed!
• Once you’ve configured a Session to your liking, you can reuse it over and over.
• Find all of your recordings, sorted by Session, in the Recordings tab.
• Check your recordings by playing them back with a single click.
• The included audio effects are easy to use and easy on the eyes.
• DJs and podcasters will love automatic ducking.
• Quickly pass files to an audio editor, add them to iTunes, or share them, all from the Recordings tab.
• Use the Schedule tab to set up timed recordings, for when you’re not around.
• The Scheduling feature can also turn any app on your Mac into an alarm clock.
• Pause, delay, and rewind live audio. Perfect for transcribing audio and more!
• Check out the new, precisely calibrated Peak/RMS Meter, replete with clipping indicators.
• Audio out of sync with video? Use the Sync block to precisely delay audio by up to 1000 milliseconds.

What’s New in Audio Hijack 3.6.0

• Audio Hijack’s tracking of physical input and output devices has been overhauled and dramatically improved. It will now better handle issues caused by many USB audio devices. Audio Hijack will automatically track devices across restarts and between ports on your computer, so fewer adjustments are necessary.
• The Source selector, found in the Application input block, has been updated and improved. It’s now easier to capture audio from the Finder and Text to Speech, with the new “Special Sources” section of the Source selector. Other minor interface improvements have been made as well.
• Audio Hijack now has preliminary compatibility with MacOS 10.15 (Catalina).
• The backend Audio Capture Engine (ACE) has been updated to 11.0.1, with preliminary MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) compatibility, as well as other fixes and improvements. ACE is now required to use Audio Hijack. If it is not currently installed, you’ll be prompted to install it at launch.
• On MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and higher, Audio Hijack now offers general Dark Mode support on windows throughout the app.
• The Declick, Dehum, and Denoise plugins have been overhauled and modernized. The new versions of these blocks can now be found in the Advanced section of the block library. For more details, see the “Advanced Blocks” section of the manual.
• Auto-splitting files based on time now has millisecond precision, so splits are much more precise.
• When adjusting an Input or Output Device block that is in an error state because a device has disappeared, changes made will now immediately take effect, even if the session is actively running.
• The buffer size used while recording has been increased, to prevent very rare cases where an over-stressed machine (or disk) could drop audio. If an error does still occur, it will now be logged.
• The Application source block now better handles applications with unconventional application names.
• An improvement has been made for session names imported from the old Audio Hijack Pro.
• The Broadcast block has been updated to plug a memory leak, and save CPU by doing smarter time formatting.
• Updates have been made to track titles used by the Broadcast block, to fix a bug where large image art captured by the Track Title system in the Broadcast block could cause audio drop outs, and better capture metadata by using a separate process.
• Audio Hijack works to properly handle third-party Audio Unit plugins on Catalina. Apple now requires third-party Audio Unit plugins to be properly signed and notarized, causing many older plugins to fail to load on Catalina. The developers of these individual plugins will need to issue properly signed updates to their plugins.
• Audio Hijack now requires MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) or higher. If you’re still on 10.11 (or lower), be sure to see our Legacy page.
• Audio Hijack’s Help menu now includes a useful new Release Notes window, so you can see changes across all versions from right inside the app.
• On Catalina, Audio Hijack works to replace the now-defunct iTunes with the new Music.app in all relevant places.
• Audio Hijack’s Preferences window has been updated for consistency across all Rogue Amoeba apps.
• A new wizard has been added to Audio Hijack for installing, updating, and removing ACE (among other things). It includes the “Quick Tour” to provide a helpful overview of the application. It will also present update notes on the first launch of a new version, and intelligently warn if uninstalling ACE will impact other applications.
• Audio Hijack’s help manual has been improved and streamlined.
• The look of messages displayed by Audio Hijack has been modernized.
• The About box has been updated to provide additional version information in an easy-to-read fashion.
• Audio Hijack now has two one-shot notices for a sub-set of older users. On first launch, users on Catalina who have active third-party Audio Units will receive one notice, while users on any OS with active Declick, Dehum, or Denoise blocks will receive another.
• The “old-style hijacker” option has been removed from Audio Hijack’s Hidden Preferences.

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