App alternative to Audio Hijack

Just purchased a new MacBook Pro and looking to upgrade some of the programs I used on my old machine. I was wondering if there was an App like program of the audio recording program called Audio Hijack. Basically Audio Hijack is a program that allows you to capture any streaming audio or any audio that passes through your computer and save it as a file.
If anyone is familiar with Audio Hijack and knows a newer and/or cheaper alternative, I'd be interested to hear about them.

DamienC wrote:
Audio Hijack is more to do with recording audio and then enhancing it.
But at the end no matter what you use, you must remember not to unnecessarily exceed the audio levels of your speaker.
I originally purchased AH Pro years ago specifically to increase volume of laptop speakers for watching movies etc. It has since become my main audio recorder for importing old music (Analog --> Digital,) coupled with Fission software for editing. A very sweet one-two combo from rogueamoeba.
Heed DamienC warning you can blow your speakers no matter what if you are careless.
Here is a screen shot of AHP

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so i was wondering if the application that apple put on their app store: Boom (http://globaldelight.com/boom/index.html) is better than the application Audio Hijack Pro (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/)?
My friend is telling me to get Audio Hijack Pro, but he also told me that his speaker on the macbook pro blew (meaning it wasnt playing sound anymore).... i know it seems as a stupid/obvious question but i wanted someones "professional" opinion, meaning why is one better than the other?
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DamienC wrote:
Audio Hijack is more to do with recording audio and then enhancing it.
But at the end no matter what you use, you must remember not to unnecessarily exceed the audio levels of your speaker.
I originally purchased AH Pro years ago specifically to increase volume of laptop speakers for watching movies etc. It has since become my main audio recorder for importing old music (Analog --> Digital,) coupled with Fission software for editing. A very sweet one-two combo from rogueamoeba.
Heed DamienC warning you can blow your speakers no matter what if you are careless.
Here is a screen shot of AHP

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My G5 with GeForce 6800 wakes up from sleep fine after touching any key. First there is a picture of my screensaver for a split of a second and then the whole active screen. The sleep of the HD and the screen are set on default in System Prefs, Energy Saver.
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I've tried variety of screensaver and sleep settings but the Timer wouldn't wake up the machine beyond the frozen screensaver. If I eliminate screensaver the Cinema 30 screen opens up but is frozen. The clock isn't running until I touch the key. It looks like the Timer's impuls isn't strong enough and can't fully wake up the machine.
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10.8.5 runs as smooth or even smoother than 10.8.4 on my Mac mini. Sure, not an iMac, and none of the issues you report.
Sublime Text 2 Build 2221 appears to launch, open and save files quicker than on 10.8.4.
Your other third-party apps may require developer updates -- or not. Even IntelliJ Ideas 12.1.4 still has a JDK 6 installation requirement. Recommend the appropriate support community for IntelliJ.
Also recommend that you run Disk Utility and verify/repair permissions. I found some stuff post-install that needed that.
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With help from you guys, I've been trying to use the "Turntablist" plug-in to create a slow start turntable effect. I'm trying to record the effect in Audio Hijack ( I have the free version),. so I can bring it back in to LogicExpress and slice and dice it into my mix. The problem is, when AudioHijack restarts LogicExpress my AU plug-ins dissapear and are un- available. Do I need the Pro version? Is there another/better way I can get audio from Turntablist into a track of Logic? Thanks everyone, this forum has been awesome for improving my chops in Logic- SeanE.Man

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I have a collection of about 500 pieces of classical music in iTunes and on my iPod and iPhone. Some recordings come with adequate fade-out or decay time at the end of each piece of music (or each movement), some with little or none. I would like to get into my iTunes library and extend the fade-out silence at the end of each piece to a time that better suits my ear -- adding perhaps 10-15 seconds before the next piece of music starts if I have the iPod set for "shuffle." I'm not wanting to edit sound out...I'm just wanting to extend or append a silence. Are either of these program well-suited to that task? Any glitches I should be aware of? If both can do what I need is there any reason to favor one or the other?

I use Fission for such tasks - I've never tried WireTap.
Audio Hijack is for recording internet streams or other sound coming through your computer. It's for making new recordings - you don't need it if all you're doing is the sound editing like you mention.
With Fission, you can fade a song out or in, and do some other sound editing, like splitting a piece into two. It's not for making real minute cuts or real fine tuning, but it works well for simple editing.
For adding silence, it's pretty straightforward - you move the playhead to the end of the track (in your case), and there's a menu item (under the 'clip' menu, I think, that's called "insert silence". Then a counter comes up and you can tell it how much silence you want, and it will add it at the playhead. It does it as a separate track, though, with a 'split' in between. So the next step is in the edit menu, 'remove all splits' (or you can do it manually).
Then you can save the file - if you 'replace' the old file with the new one, you're done, and the new file overwrites the old one. If you give the new track a different name, then you have to navigate to the folder it's in and double-click to import it into iTunes, where it will have the same name (in iTunes) as the old track, even if you saved it under a different name. You can change the metadata for the track before saving, to avoid that.
But I just add silence and then overwrite the old track, so it's gone from iTunes, and the new one is there.
It can be a little tedious to do several tracks (one at a time). No real glitches - sometimes when messing with a track too much, there can be a 'popping' sound added, but it's rare and easily fixed by undoing the editing. You have to undo it one step at a time, but you can undo it every step back to the beginning.
Also, Fission works on all types of sound files without transcoding - Apple Lossless, AIFF, mp3, AAC - it doesn't change the file format (unless you ask it to convert the file).
Maybe somebody will post about WireTap Pro - I assume it can do the same things, but I've never seen the interface.

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Hope someone can help.....I downloaded Audio HiJack (demo) to record some LP's as MP3's and to record some concert DVD's to itunes. When I installed the software, the DVD player would no longer work. I got an error message "supported disc not available". Once I unistalled the software, it worked fine.
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I am having a problem with Audio-Hijack PRO & my screensaver, and, I am hoping maybe someone here has come across this.
If I have a recording in Audio Hijack scheduled to go off at 3:00am, it has no problem bringing the monitor out of sleep, however, the screensaver or monitor sleep never kicks back in, and, I am a bit worried that this may do damage to my monitor.
Has anyone ever come a across any problems like this with audio-hijack ?
Another thing that happens is, if I start a manual record of the sound of the system, the screensaver never kicks in, and, the monitor never goes back to sleep.
This is really becoming frustrating, and, i am hoping I can get some answers here. if not, i appreciate you taking the time to read this.
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I'm late to this discussion because I've had no problems recording my weekly 2-hour jazz show by inputting my Onkyo tune to my 2013 iMac vs. USB (Apple removed the audio-in jack--darn it). I recorded them in Sound Studio (which unlike Toast has easily editable audio waves--and for digitizing LPs, I found I could be more accurate and achieve faster results that with Spin Doctor, which is bundled with Toast). I had no trouble. That is, until now. My recordings are suddenly all static. I can hear my voice in the background but the recording is unusable for all practical purposes.
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