Audio Hijack Pro

Critical Bug Fix: We've corrected an issue where deleting blocks on MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) could cause an exception in Core Animation and leave the UI in an inconsistent state until relaunched.

Enhancement: The “Avaya Spark” app is now supported as a VoIP input source.

Enhancement: Audio Hijack now better shows when an audio device has gone missing.

Enhancement: Several minor corrections have been made for the “Install Extras” window when using Full Keyboard Access.

Bug Fix: The left and right arrows again work to navigate in the Sessions tab.

Bug Fix: A VoiceOver-related crash on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) has been fixed. along with an issue where VoiceOver users couldn't edit tags in the Recordings tab.

Bug Fix: Adjustments have been made to enable FaceTime to be captured on MacOS 10.12 (Sierra).

Other: Due to changes in iTunes 12.5, Audio Hijack now requires Instant On to capture audio from iTunes, and will prompt the user if needed.

Major Enhancement: It's now possible for advanced users to lower audio processing latency! The new latency slider in Audio Hijack's preferences can be adjusted to reduce or remove any slight echoing you may hear while monitoring audio flow through Audio Hijack.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack now offers safer recording for AAC and Apple Lossless (ALAC) files, to avoid any loss of audio in the event of an issue. There are now two different “Container” options. The new .mp4 is recommended, but the older .m4a option remains available.

Major Enhancement: Capturing audio from the Slack application is now fully supported when Instant On is installed.

Major Enhancement: The Instant On component has been updated to version 8.2.6, with a plethora of small fixes and improvements.

Enhancement: The Menu Bar Meters block now has proper Retina art in the menu bar. Our long, blurry nightmare is finally over. As well, the desired meter type is now correctly saved.

Enhancement: Files in the Recordings tab can now be right-clicked to access a contextual menu, offering controls for manipulating the recording.

Enhancement: The Schedule area of the Home window will now visually indicate when conflicts exist between timers.

Enhancement: The Time Shift block has been improved in several ways, fixing a display issue with large jumps, providing a better VoiceOver value, and improving the explanatory text.

Enhancement: The default quality levels have been improved for both MP3 and AAC recordings.

Enhancement: Presets for several blocks have been improved to save additional settings, including saving album art as part of Recorder block presets, saving all settings in the Application source block, and saving the specified channels in an Output block.

Enhancement: When an audio device's name changes, Audio Hijack will immediately reflect the new name.

Enhancement: A selected item in the Recordings area will now collapse if multiple files are selected. As well, Recordings (and Timers in the Schedule tab) will toggle between expanded and collapsed when clicked, as well as with the left and right arrow keys.

Enhancement: Audio Hijack can convert .mp4 files to .m4a, for compatibility purposes. To access the conversion option, right-click the file in the Recordings area.

Enhancement: VoiceOver improvements! When VoiceOver is active, a “Pin Popover Open” option is added to contextual menus for blocks. The popover window's role has also been adjusted, so popovers appear in VoiceOver's ‘Window Chooser'. Finally, labels for the “Close” and “Pin” buttons in popovers have been improved.

Enhancement: AirPlay output device name changes are now better recognized, and a better title (“No AirPlay Receiver Selected”) is shown if AirPlay doesn't have a destination set.

Bug Fix: The display of app names for background processes (accessible by holding option while clicking the Source select in an Application block) has been improved.

Bug Fix: An issue where HE-AAC files could suffer from slow playback in the Recordings tab has been corrected.

Bug Fix: The low-end Hz frequency readouts for the DeHum, Low Pass, and Mono Enhancer blocks no longer incorrectly round to the nearest 10 Hz.

Bug Fix: A recursion where tokens in Recorder fields could refer back to one another and cause an infinite loop has been fixed.

Bug Fix: A crash which could be caused by malformed ID3 tags has been corrected.

Bug Fix: An issue where incompletely loaded windows could appear when importing a Session has been corrected.

Other: Audio Hijack now better conveys why there's a delay if AAC files are finalized on quit.

Other: Many smaller improvements have also been made, including better trial warning text in the Session's LCD, limiting the dimensions of saved album art (900x900px), cosmetic improvements to the Recordings tab, cosmetic improvements for missing audio devices, revised art for missing inputs, improved handling of playback via spacebar in the Recordings area, and improved popover placement near the menu bar.

Major Enhancement: Instant On 8.2.3 is included, with several fixes for rare issues.

Minor Enhancement: Performance has been improved, with reductions in CPU usage.

Minor Enhancement: Recorder fields can now have variable tokens inserted via the contextual menu, which should be particularly helpful for VoiceOver users.

Bug Fix: We've fixed audio playback off all files in the Recording tab. Previously, some files played at double speed, and that was weird!

Bug Fix: On Mac OS X 10.9, the 10 Band EQ sliders will no longer appear upside-down. That was weird too!

Bug Fix: An issue with WAV tags not being written correctly has been fixed.

Bug Fix: A rare bug where number fields in the Recorder block could become empty, leading to an exception, has been fixed.

Bug Fix: Attached popovers are now positioned correctly when Audio Hijack is re-opened.

Other: The now-defunct Rdio has been removed from the default apps.

Other: Improvements have been made to the way third-party Audio Units are handled.

Other: There are many other small improvements, as usual.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack again has a Silence Monitor, and that's golden! Head to the "File Limits" section of the Recorder Block, where you can control how Audio Hijack reacts to silence. Remove silence, start a new recording based on it, or end your recording entirely.

Major Enhancement: The Recording tab of Audio Hijack's Home window now offers Actions! Highlight one or more recordings, then click the Actions button to quickly Reveal in the Finder, Edit in your chosen audio editor, Add to iTunes, or Share via the Mac OS X Share sheet.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack now entirely avoids forced auto-ducking from sources like FaceTime and Mac OS X Dictation. It will also attempt to automatically correct any Sessions which used Volume Overdrive to work around the auto-ducking. In short, audio capture from FaceTime and Dictation works just as you'd expect.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack is now smarter in dealing with missing and re-appearing audio devices. In addition, when a device is not plugged in, Audio Hijack will alert you so you can adjust your settings.

Major Enhancement: AIFF and WAV recordings can now be made in higher sample rates, with support for 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, and 192 kHz.

Critical Bug Fix: Audio Hijack now correctly alerts you when the Instant On extra is required. Previously, Audio Hijack could simply fail to capture audio, and that was far from ideal. We recommend that all users install Instant On, but now when it's required, you'll know.

Minor Enhancement: Audio Hijack's Preferences window now offers the ability to select a companion audio editor to show up in the aforementioned Actions control. We recommend our own editor Fission, of course, but any editor may be chosen. Option-click to reset this preference.

Minor Enhancement: Audio Hijack now works around an issue where QuickTime Player on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) would refuse to auto-play audio.

Minor Enhancement: Keyboard control has been expanded for quick access to important recording controls. Turn off all Recordings in a Session with Commmand-K. Pause all Recordings with Command-B. Split all Recordings with Command-T. Nice!

Minor Enhancement: Several minor cosmetic improvements have been made, including fixes for icons in the App Source popup and flickering in the Recording tab.

Minor Enhancement: Errors and Messages have been updated and improved for clarity.

Minor Enhancement: Tooltips and VoiceOver descriptions have also been improved throughout the app.

Minor Enhancement: Default recording names in templates have been improved.

Bug Fix: Certain rare and unsupported combinations of AAC settings which previously caused an error are now correctly limited in the UI. The HE-AAC checkbox can also now be edited when a Recorder block is off.

Bug Fix: Some issues where Audio Hijack could crash on quit have been corrected.

Bug Fix: Audio Hijack now better handles system sleep when recording.

Bug Fix: The Channel Tweaker effect no longer incorrectly doubles volume when set to "mono".

Other: There's all sorts of additional tiny improvements and fixes. As usual, we recommend getting the latest version right away!

Other: The File Limits area has been updated to handle decimals properly.

Other: The Recorder block now has a "Stopped" state, shown when a File Limit is reached or the Block is turned off.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack again has a Silence Monitor, and that's golden! Head to the "File Limits" section of the Recorder Block, where you can control how Audio Hijack reacts to silence. Remove silence, start a new recording based on it, or end your recording entirely.

Major Enhancement: The Recording tab of Audio Hijack's Home window now offers Actions! Highlight one or more recordings, then click the Actions button to quickly Reveal in the Finder, Edit in your chosen audio editor, Add to iTunes, or Share via the Mac OS X Share sheet.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack now entirely avoids forced auto-ducking from sources like FaceTime and Mac OS X Dictation. It will also attempt to automatically correct any Sessions which used Volume Overdrive to work around the auto-ducking. In short, audio capture from FaceTime and Dictation works just as you'd expect.

Major Enhancement: Audio Hijack is now smarter in dealing with missing and re-appearing audio devices. In addition, when a device is not plugged in, Audio Hijack will alert you so you can adjust your settings.

Major Enhancement: AIFF and WAV recordings can now be made in higher sample rates, with support for 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, and 192 kHz.

Critical Bug Fix: Audio Hijack now correctly alerts you when the Instant On extra is required. Previously, Audio Hijack could simply fail to capture audio, and that was far from ideal. We recommend that all users install Instant On, but now when it's required, you'll know.

Minor Enhancement: Audio Hijack's Preferences window now offers the ability to select a companion audio editor to show up in the aforementioned Actions control. We recommend our own editor Fission, of course, but any editor may be chosen. Option-click to reset this preference.

Minor Enhancement: Audio Hijack now works around an issue where QuickTime Player on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) would refuse to auto-play audio.

Minor Enhancement: Keyboard control has been expanded for quick access to important recording controls. Turn off all Recordings in a Session with Commmand-K. Pause all Recordings with Command-B. Split all Recordings with Command-T. Nice!

Minor Enhancement: Several minor cosmetic improvements have been made, including fixes for icons in the App Source popup and flickering in the Recording tab.

Minor Enhancement: Errors and Messages have been updated and improved for clarity.

Minor Enhancement: Tooltips and VoiceOver descriptions have also been improved throughout the app.

Minor Enhancement: Default recording names in templates have been improved.

Bug Fix: Certain rare and unsupported combinations of AAC settings which previously caused an error are now correctly limited in the UI. The HE-AAC checkbox can also now be edited when a Recorder block is off.

Bug Fix: Some issues where Audio Hijack could crash on quit have been corrected.

Bug Fix: Audio Hijack now better handles system sleep when recording.

Bug Fix: The Channel Tweaker effect no longer incorrectly doubles volume when set to "mono".

Other: There's all sorts of additional tiny improvements and fixes. As usual, we recommend getting the latest version right away!

Other: The File Limits area has been updated to handle decimals properly.

Other: The Recorder block now has a "Stopped" state, shown when a File Limit is reached or the Block is turned off.

Major Enhancement: Overall latency in Audio Hijack has been massively reduced, and improvements to prevent latency from growing have been made as well. If you had issues with latency previously, please test this new version.

Critical Bug Fix: Due to faulty logic, on days when clocks changed for Daylight Saving Time, timers previously suffered from off-by-one-hour issues. This has now been corrected, so timers will work correctly on all days of the year.

Enhancement: The finalization of AAC and ALAC recordings is greatly improved. Files are named correctly after splits, and the finalization of longer files is better handled.

Minor Enhancement: The Recordings and Schedule tabs now feature "Delete Recording(s)" and "Delete Timer(s)" buttons respectively, to make it much more obvious how to delete these items.

Bug Fix: An issue where a popover could come down with an uncontrollable case of the jiggles has been corrected. It may have looked funny, but it was certainly not correct!

Bug Fix: Multiple selection of items in the Recordings and Schedule now works as expected.

Workaround: Improvements have been made to prevent some AudioUnit plugins from crashing Audio Hijack, including plugins from IK Multimedia.

Other: Various other minor interface improvements, including preventing unnecessary scrolling in the Library, updating highlight colors, tweaking the schedule layout slightly, adding a "No Presets" view when the last preset is deleted, and improving editing of an active timer.

Enhancement: When a Session is running, Recorder Blocks now show "Stopped" on their face when a File Limit is hit or the Block is turned off.

Enhancement: The "Line2" and "Zoom" apps are now supported as VoIP input sources.

Enhancement: The default file name for recordings has been updated to include date and time tokens.

Enhancement: Ducking now quickly fades audio in and out, rather than doing hard, instant adjustments.

Critical Bug Fix: An issue where audio could get crackly and eventually stop playing through properly has been fixed.

Critical Bug Fix: A rare but serious bug where Audio Hijack could pinwheel and die at the end of a recording has been corrected.

Bug Fix: We crushed an irritating bug where text fields in the Recordings tab would lose focus with each keystroke.

Bug Fix: Recorders which hit a File Limit will now correctly resume after either the Block or the Session is toggled off and back on.

Bug Fix: A disabled timer could stop a recording currently being made by another timer. That is really silly, and now, it's gone.

Bug Fix: Importing of old Sessions is now more robust, and correctly imports all timers and tags.

Bug Fix: Improvements to latency have been made, particularly to prevent latency growth. Further improvements to latency issues are expected in future versions.

Bug Fix: Variables in Recorder Block tags and file names are now properly expanded, to fix both omitted fields and issues with expansion.

Bug Fix: When a Recorder Block has variables in multiple fields which refer to one another, this is now handled sensibly. As well, variables in Recorder Block tags can no longer incorrectly refer back to themselves.

Bug Fix: A rare issue where Blocks could leave, well, droppings, has been corrected. Honestly, it looked like the Block had defecated. It was hilarious, but wrong.

Bug Fix: Recorder presets now correctly save all settings and tags (excluding artwork).

Bug Fix: Tooltips were sometimes lagging behind reality, but they've been given a speed boost.

Bug Fix: Editing controls in some Audio Unit plugin views would cause the popover to drag. No more!

Bug Fix: 24-bit Wav recordings now work as expected.

Accessibility improvement: The first block pasted into the Audio Grid is now properly selected and described by VoiceOver.

Accessibility improvement: The disclosure buttons for advanced sections in popovers and library sub-sections are now skipped by VoiceOver. These sections automatically expand on VoiceOver-interact. The buttons were poorly described, and of no value to VoiceOver users.

Accessibility improvement: Schedule times were incorrectly read by VoiceOver, which could be very, very confusing! They'll now be read correctly.

Accessibility improvement: The "Hide Library" button (which hides the library from VoiceOver navigation, as well as visually) is now correctly labeled for VoiceOver.

Accessibility improvement: Animations of blocks adding, deleting, or moving Blocks are now disabled when VoiceOver is in use, to avoiding confusing VoiceOver. Animations resume when Audio Hijack is restarted.

Session Templates - For a quick way to begin common tasks, look no further than Session Templates. Common tasks in Audio Hijack are now faster than ever.

Multiple Recorders in One Session - Want to record to both the MP3 and AIFF formats at once, or record different sources in sync? Just add multiple Recorder Blocks to get multiple files!

Bulletproof Audio Recording - Every format in Audio Hijack is now bulletproof, so even if your computer crashes, you'll never lose a recording again.

Denoise, Declick, Dehum - Clean up dirty audio with these custom audio effects, powered by audio technology licensed from industry leader iZotope.

Simplified Audio Effects - Harness the power of audio effects without needing a degree in audio engineering.

Audio Block Presets - Saving presets for an Equalizer is obvious, but how about other settings? With Audio Hijack 3's new presets, you can save configurations for almost every Block, then instantly use them in other Sessions.

Improved Instant On - Capture audio from already-running apps, as well as all System Audio at once. If you haven't looked at Audio Hijack for a while, you'll be thrilled to see that installation and updates to Instant On no longer require a restart.

Streamlined Recording Options - Audio Hijack offers a half-dozen sensible defaults for recording. Of course, if you're looking for powerful recording options, they're still available too.

FLAC Recording - Audiophiles will be thrilled to record directly into the lossless FLAC format.

HE-AAC Recording Too - Audio Hijack can now record in the high-efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) format as well.

Full-Screen Mode - Whether configuring a tricky Session or focusing on a recording, going full-screen helps you focus.

Massively Improved Accessibility - We know many visually impaired users love Audio Hijack, and we've worked hard to make it fully accessible with Apple's VoiceOver.

The Ducking Effect - With this effect, one signal can automatically be ducked under another, based on input levels.

The Time Shift Effect - Still in its infancy, this effect enables you to pause and delay audio in your chain. Pause audio entirely, jump backwards or forwards 10 seconds, or jump back to Live.

The New Volume Effect - Overdrive audio to maximize the output from small speakers like those found on laptops.

Full Cocoa Audio Unit Support - We've cut VST, LADSPA and older Carbon and 32-bit Audio Unit effects, but you can still add on modern (64-bit Cocoa) third-party Audio Unit plugins.

Control-click an Audio Unit's block to select the generic interface, if the plugin's custom interface is not desired. This can be especially helpful for visually impaired users.

Output Device Blocks include a built-in monitor control for output volumes. Adjust this to lower the volume locally, without affecting your recording.

Quick access to your recording location is now available right in the Recorder block, by clicking the magnifying glass.

Some rarely-used ID3 tags were culled. If you miss them, sorry!

Audio Effects now look great, and work great too.

The Channels effect (a replacement for Channel Tweaker) is far simpler to understand.

So very much more - this update is so massive, we don't have room to list all of the changes!

Audio Hijack Pro now has initial compatibility with Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).

The Instant On component has been updated to version 8, with support for Yosemite. This update provides several improvements and bug fixes.

It's now possible to capture multiple instances of System Audio at once.

Code-signing is now checked during software update.

Many other small bugs have been fixed.

OS X 10.9 compatibility