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