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Developer: Rogue Amoeba Software
Price: $32; a lesser-featured version, Audio Hijack, is $16.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9. Universal.
Trial: Feature-limited (noise is overlaid on all hijackings lasting longer than ten minutes)
The world is a funny place. If you’d told me, when I started usingProdigy ten years ago, that one day people would exchange recordedmonologues and amateur radio shows using the Internet, I wouldn’t havebelieved you. And if you’d said that to me five years ago, I would’vesaid, “With what equipment?”
But a few months ago, a friend said to me, “Why don’t we make apodcast?”
I’m not really sure what the plan of attack was—at the time, we werestill students, leading this quasi-Seinfeldian existence of days strungtogether as a collection of different places to loaf around. And I’m notsure we had anything to be interested in. So why anyone would listen toour podcast, I have no idea.
In any event, Apple had given us almost all the equipment we needed inthe intervening five years: a built-in microphone on every consumer Mac,an iPod in almost every hand in America, and universal Wi-Fi. The cablecompanies supplied the bandwidth, and, for those of us operating byremote, Skype made the entire world our oyster; and a cottage industryof would-be Tony Kornheisers, Carl Kasells, and Rush Limbaughs was born.
All that was lacking was the glue to hold the whole thing together andmake it into a recording. Without it, it would be a large-scalespectacle designed only for just one person, more like the family“newspaper” I published when I was eight than a piece of broadcastmedium. All the audio would stream into my computer, and then be playedback over my speakers, and that would be it.
The solution, it turns out, is Audio Hijack Pro. It’s a piece ofsoftware designed to capture audio input and output from your computer,and route it into a file. This is one of those tasks that it does notnecessarily occur to you to do—until you play back a video and realizeyou want to capture a piece of dialogue for a ringtone, for instance, orwish that you could listen to your favorite radio show on your iPod. Or,you want to record a podcast. It doesn’t really matter how it works, butessentially, it wiretaps the system audio stream, which can be split upby application or taken as a whole. Then, it can apply filters to it,and then convert the file (natively, an AIFF) to the format of yourchoice. Ta-da!
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That was the resolution I found to the question of how to make thisinaugural podcast. The hitch: Audio Hijack Pro itself.
If I were Malcolm Gladwell, here would follow a disquisition on thehistory of broadcast media, from Guglielmo Marconi to the state of themedia at the arrival of the podcast, and then a few carefully chosenvignettes about the pioneering podcasters, Ze Frank, Amanda Congdon andAdam Curry, inter alia. And it would be 5,000 words of pure gold. Itmight even win me an American Society of Magazine Editors award.
That’s not me. So instead, I will begin with brass tacks.
Audio Hijack Pro did not do the task, for me, by any conventionaldefinition of “work.” When the red light went off and I disconnectedSkype, and we were no longer “on air,” such that it was, I opened thefile to play it back. Our inaugural podcast was mysteriously choppy forthe first few minutes. At somewhere in the neighborhood of eightminutes, it simply skipped forward to a point I knew to have been aboutthree minutes later in our “broadcast.” The intervening three minuteshadn’t been recorded at all.
Audio Hijack Pro, all set up for a podcast-recording studio session.
At the time that this occurred, my computer had been in the ideal statefor recording the audio. Only two applications were running, AudioHijack Pro and Skype (version 1.3). My computer isn’t exactlystate-of-the-art—a PowerBook G4 running at 800 MHz—but it’s well withinthe minimum required hardware parameters for both pieces of software.Skype requires a 400 MHz G3, and Rogue Amoeba does not even stateminimum required hardware for Audio Hijack Pro.
This unstated minimum required configuration seems to be the source ofthe problem, as it turns out. Developer Rogue Amoeba acknowledges, inthe application manual, that recording skipping can be a problem, but Istill had audio skipping even after following the troubleshootinginstructions. I did not even see the warning, in the application, thatthere had been skipping at all, and did not know what it would look likeuntil I consulted the manual to see what might have gone wrong. I wasable to eliminate the skipping problem by running the most bare-bonesconfiguration, encoding the audio to AIFF and certainly using no effectsor manipulation at record time.
I simply cannot recommend an application which failed at such a simpletask, because most podcasts are rather less low-budget than mine, withmusic played back between transitions from iTunes, or pre-recordedinterviews slotted in from QuickTime, or complex input filters. Withoutstate-of-the-art hardware, you may find yourself struggling to make anyof this happen. Your mileage may vary, but you’re probably driving moremiles than I do, too.
It’s a pity that this flaw was so pronounced, to be honest, because itwas so easy to set up the recording. I looked into the business ofrecording a podcast via Skype once, some time ago, and at the time awhole menagerie of supporting software was required. Today it’s possibleto set the entire thing up in Audio Hijack Pro itself: with just a fewclicks, you can set up the required software monitoring to hijack theaudio, including the input channel. This is a feature called ApplicationMixer, and in spite of my trouble, I think it’s a brilliant solution tothis particular problem.
In addition, Audio Hijack Pro allows you to mix in sound effects orinterleaved music segments, which you can queue up for playback in realtime, like a live radio show. Rather than simply having them jump in,you can fade them in and out, also using Application Mixer.
Application Mixer: Your one-stop shop for podcast recording. As longas Audio Hijack Pro records all your audio.
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What’s really unfortunate about my experience is that there are plentyof more mundane things that Audio Hijack Pro does really well. Forinstance, there was a fantastic faux-Indian tune that was the thememusic to the Absolut movie-mercial, “Mulit,” which I’d wanted to find away to record since 2003. Audio Hijack Pro gave me a way to do that,easily, and didn’t skip any audio. And recording from live streamedaudio, a task which would have made it much easier to listen to NPR’s“Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” before they launched a podcast, couldn’t besimpler: Once Real Player or iTunes has been hijacked, you can create arecording session from a streaming audio URL and give it a schedule.Audio Hijack Pro will then launch at the specified time, waking yourcomputer from sleep if necessary, and capture its audio and save it tothe specified file type.
This functionality, too, went off without a hitch. I don’t know if NPRhas finally made a podcast for “Car Talk,” but I’m rarely in my car onSaturdays anymore, so I used it to create my own faux-podcast, recordingfrom KOPB in Portland, OR, which will always be “my” NPR station.
Timer-triggered streaming audio recordings. Someone’s putting Mac OSX’s Unix background to work, methinks.
In addition, Rogue Amoeba advertises Audio Hijack Pro’s functionalityfor recording analogue audio, like cassettes or records, or 8-tracks ifyou’re really hard-core, to digital files like MP3s or AACs. I don’t ownany analogue media to try this particular feature out, because I’m aproduct of the digital era, but the Silence Monitor feature seemstailor-made for this task. As the manual describes it, it will attemptto decipher the gaps in tracks, and you can either not record the gapsor split the file into multiple recordings at noise gaps. Or, you canpress the “Split”—that way, you can split “Blood on the Tracks” into itsindvidual songs without having to manually monitor the record, but leaveyour “Thick as a Brick” as one MP3. I can see how this would be useful,even without owning a turntable.
There’s also a less expensive version of Audio Hijack Pro, called AudioHijack, which retails for $16, but it has a wide range of flaws thatkeep it from being useful for most of the tasks that make its Prosibling so useful. It won’t record MP3s or AACs, it can’t merge multipleaudio sources (like iTunes music transitions between segments in apodcast), and it lacks the Silence Monitor. It does have thetimer-recording feature, but I’m not sure how useful that would be whenit will only output AIFF files, Mac OS X’s native sound output format.These files tend to be very large, so while your iPod will play them,they will require a much larger amount of space for the same play time.You’d probably want to convert the AIFF files to MP3 or AAC using iTunes.
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Unfortunately, the skipping recording in my podcast—which would havebeen about an hour and 20 minutes, and ended up at about 35 minutes ofrecorded audio—keeps me from recommending the application more strongly.It’s likely that if I owned a state-of-the-art computer, I wouldn’t seethis problem, but I can’t vouch for that. I’ve contacted Rogue Amoeba’stechnical support, and the only solution that we were able to identifyis to switch the recording to AIFF. This, in concert with only the mostbare-bones recording options, kept the skipping to a minimum, but alsoeliminated most of the useful features. Rogue Amoeba really ought toconsider publishing a minimum recommended hardware configuration forAudio Hijack Pro.
With the exception of the relatively smaller numbers of people whoeither record their own podcasts, or capture audio in real-time in oneformat or another, it has long seemed to me that Audio Hijack Pro is anapplication in search of a problem. For that crowd, the problem is real,and Audio Hijack Pro may be just the solution.
Caveat: Without the right hardware, you will probably find yourselfhighly limited in the features you can use in this application.
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