Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on July 23rd, 2005

Joi Ito: Skypecast from the sky

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on July 17th, 2005

Along with iTunes 4.9, Apple released a tool for creating AAC files with “chapter” artwork inside of them: Podcast Chapter Tool . There is not much to Podcast Chapter Tool, as it consists of a command line program, a document explaining the XML chapter configuration file format, and an example XML file. Basically, the minimum necessary to get the job done.

The first thing I thought upon seeing Chapter Tool, was that all of three people would use it until someone made a nice graphical interface for it. And then I thought, I could probably make a nice graphical interface for it. And finally I thought, if I just wait a couple weeks, somebody else will probably make one and save me the trouble.

And sure enough on MacUpdate today I saw it: ChapterToolMe by Romain Bossut. It’s still a bit rough around the edges, but it works. And it beats the heck out of creating Chapter configuration files by hand.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on July 14th, 2005

Audio Hijack 2.2.2 has just been released and is now available for all users. This free update (for registered users) brings support for Automator Workflows when a recording finishes, as well fixing minor bugs with recording. Download this update now or click to learn more about our basic recording utility.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on July 14th, 2005

From The Data Compression News Blog by way of Slashdot: 10 years of MP3.

I did not know that before they settled on .mp3 as the file extension, they used .bit.

Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on July 9th, 2005

A user Dave F. sent us this nifty screenshot of Audio Hijack Pro running for 84 days straight:

We know of a couple setups where people run Audio Hijack Pro continuously. It inherits a lot of it’s long-run stability from bug fixes made for Nicecast.