What’s Really New In Audio Hijack Pro 2.5
Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on April 29th, 2005
Here’s a more complete version history for Audio Hijack Pro 2.5. We always have to sell ourselves short for the sake of brevity. The front page news bite mentions 4 new things, the press release lists 8. The actual number of significant changes is somewhere above 50.
Features
- AppleScript: Fully Applescriptable
- Audio Sources: New Radio Input source (supports RadioShark and DSB-R100)
- Audio Sources: New ‘System Audio’ source (Soundflower)
- Audio Sources: New ‘Silence Input’ and ‘Silence Output’ audio devices
- Audio Sources: Audio Device source buffer size selector
- Audio Sources: Audio Device source channel selector
- Hijacking: New Advanced Fill Gaps options
- Hijacking: New Suppress RealPlayer Errors preference
- Other: Built-in Soundflower Installer
- Other: New Disk Status window
- Other: New Registration window
- Plugins: Application Mixer plugin
- Plugins: Cocoa AudioUnit support
- Plugins: AudioUnit Generators support
- Plugins: VoiceOver buffer size selector
- Recording Bin: New Date Created column, and various tweaks
- Recording: AAC/ALAC files are now Fast-Start enabled
- Recording: AAC quality selector
- Recording: Silence Monitor ‘Stop Recording After’ option
- Recording: Added strftime() variable support (%frmt_ + strftime variable)
- Timers: Overlapping timer detection
Changes
- AppleScript: Now supports executing resource-fork based AppleScripts
- Audio Sources: Now handles Audio Device hotplugging better
- Hijacking: ‘Relaunch’ warning dialog now skipped when invoked by a timer
- Hijacking: Turning Hijacker off now turns the Recorder off too (unless you hold down Shift)
- Hijacking: Instant Hijack updated to v1.4.6
- Timers: Timers will now pre-empt each other if they overlap on the same target
- Interface: Now remembers selection preferences
- Interface: ‘Advanced’ buttons in source panes
- Interface: Updated Source icons
- Interface: Variables popup in the Recording pane now shows up in the text fields that support variables
- Plugins: Knobs now support scrollwheels
- Plugins: Plugin files now be dragged & dropped into Patch slots
- Other: Now requires MacOS X 10.3.0
- Other: Instant Hijack now comes with APE 1.5
- Other: Registration Noise now ramps up
- Recording: AAC/ALAC files now have their creator code set to iTunes
- Recording: Bookmarkable AACs now have use ‘.m4a’ file extension (again)
- Recording: Now creates the output folder if it is missing
- Recording: Now uses LAME 3.96.1 for MP3 encoding
- Recording: Adjusted MP3 Quality slider to better match recommended LAME encoder settings
Bug Fixes
- AppleScript: Improved error recovery when executing scripts
- Bookmarks: Minor fixes to bookmark parsers
- Hijacking: Improved stability for some 3rd party devices
- Interface: ‘Application’ selector popup now correctly remembers its Recent Items
- Interface: ‘Cancel’ button in the ‘Advanced Hijacking Options’ dialog now correctly Cancels
- Interface: Fixed Session menu to not incorrectly disable items sometimes
- Interface: Fixed long-standing bug where Effects sliders would miss clicks
- Other: Audio Hijack Pro 1 Presets are now only imported on the first launch
- Other: Fixed bug where crashlogs were not being generated correctly
- Other: Fixed many minor memory leaks
- Other: Fixed bug where you were limited to 230 sessions
- Plugins: Fixed “Jumping Effects” bug where Effects would move around the Patch on their own
- Plugins: Fixed a crashing bug when Effects windows were closed quickly
- Recording: Handles cleaning up quit better
- Timers: Now handles daylight saving time better