Rogue Amoeba Software, Inc. is a
software company that produces audio software, specializing in applications for audio capture for the
Macintosh platform. Rogue Amoeba's best-known products are Audio Hijack and Audio Hijack Pro (both now known simply as Audio Hijack). The Audio Hijack programs allow for users to capture and record audio from any program running under
macOS. The Pro version adds support for
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Audio Unit
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, and
LADSPA
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plugins, among other features.
Other software by Rogue Amoeba includes Nicecast, Airfoil, and Fission. Nicecast combines Audio Hijack's ability to capture audio with the open source
Icecast streaming media
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system to enable users to broadcast audio from any program over the internet. Airfoil allows for the transmission of any audio through the remote speaker system of Apple's
AirPort Express, which currently only supports audio from
iTunes
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. Fission is an audio file editor designed to be simple and user-friendly. It has basic operations like fading and splitting, and can edit MP3 files without losing quality to recompression.
Their programs have won numerous awards, including "Best of Show" at the 2004 San Francisco
Macworld Conference & Expo, two
O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Awards, and two
Macworld
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"Eddy" awards.
History
Rogue Amoeba began in 1998 when Alex Lagutin and Paul Kafasis began working together, first on the release of a small shareware add-on to the
MacAMP
MacAmp is an early GUI-based MP3 audio player, first released on April 13, 1997, for the Macintosh("For the Macintosh, we recommend MacAmp.") by Dmitry Boldyrev of Nullsoft (and later Subband).("Dmitry Boldyrev, one of the developers at Nullsoft ...
MP3 player, and then at @soft Software, developers of MacAMP itself.
Along with
Dmitry Boldyrev
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, creator of MacAMP, Lagutin and Kafasis left @soft to form
Subband Software
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. They were later joined by Quentin Carnicelli, author of his own MP3 player. Subband went on to reacquire the MacAMP name, and released an MP3 player, again named MacAMP. While at Subband, Lagutin originated the idea for a MacAMP plugin that would capture audio from other applications. Audio Hijack was born as a plugin for MacAMP for
Mac OS 9
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.
A version of Audio Hijack as a standalone application for Mac OS X was created in 2002 and went on sale September 30, 2002. Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC was officially registered December 31, 2002 by Lagutin, Carnicelli, and Kafasis.
References
External links
*{{Official website, www.rogueamoeba.com
Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba on Fission, their new audio editing tool ''MacVoices'', 2006-09-20
Macintosh software companies