🥳 Audio Hijack 4 is MacStories’ Best App Update of 2022! Read all about it: weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2022/12/2…
🎉 Over at MacStories, Audio Hijack 4 is the Best App Update of 2022, and we’re thrilled and honored! Read what they had to say right here: www.macstories.net/stories/m…
The audio capture incompatibilities we briefly had with MacOS 13.1 have been resolved.
Get the latest versions of Airfoil, Audio Hijack, Loopback, Piezo, & SoundSource from our site right now for full compatibility with Mac OS 13.1.
Some changes in MacOS 13.1 are leading to audio capture issues with Airfoil, Audio Hijack, Loopback, Piezo, & SoundSource. We’re on it, and we’ll have updates ASAP! For now, we suggest holding off on 13.1 for a bit.
Watch rogueamoeba.com/status/ for more.
All of our software has been well-tested and offers has full support for MacOS 13 (Ventura).
Grab our latest versions and update your Mac(s) with confidence.
If you want to over-engineer an “ON AIR” sign for your podcast, Audio Hijack’s automation features can help!
On his YouTube channel, DMS built a Dolby Atmos speaker system on the cheap with a big assist from Loopback, our crazy powerful audio routing tool.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch
Loopback: rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
MacOS 13 (Ventura) arrives on Monday, and our apps are ready! Be sure you have the latest versions of all of Rogue Amoeba’s products, and you’ll be all set.
As always, see rogueamoeba.com/status/ for more details.
Today is Rogue Amoeba’s 20th anniversary! We’ve come a long way, babies, but we plan to keep rocking for decades to come. Haven’t taken advantage of our rare sale? Now is the time!
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By now, you may know we’re celebrating our 20th anniversary and that you can save 20% off all purchases from our site. That deal will only last a few more days, so check it out now!
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If you do anything with audio on your Mac, SoundSource can assist, with fast device switching, per-app volume and output control, audio effects, and much more.
Check it out rogueamoeba.com/soundsour…
Act fast to save 20% during our anniversary sale!
Our charmingly simple audio recorder Piezo makes it possible to record audio with just one click. rogueamoeba.com/piezo/
Check it out today and save 20% when you buy during our anniversary celebration.
Loopback is in our app spotlight today. Do you need to pass audio between apps? Add music or sound effects to VoIP calls? Improve your mic’s audio quality? Check out rogueamoeba.com/loopback.
Through the end of the month, you can get $20 off Loopback. Don’t wait!
Today’s a great day to look at our simple, fast audio editor Fission! Get the trial at rogueamoeba.com/fission to edit your audio files in seconds, all with no quality loss.
And of course, through the end of the month, you can save 20% during our anniversary celebration.
Next up in our app spotlight: Farrago, the Mac’s best soundboard app! Check out rogueamoeba.com/farrago/ to download the free trial. Save 20% when you buy during our 20th anniversary celebration.
During our 20th anniversary celebration, our flagship recorder Audio Hijack is 20% off. Record ANY audio on your Mac with Audio Hijack.
Visit rogueamoeba.com/audiohija… to learn more.
P.S. Still using version 3? Save 20% when you upgrade to v4 before October!
During our 20th anniversary celebration, all of our apps are 20% off.
If you need to stream audio around your house, Airfoil is the tool to do it. Visit rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/m… to check it out!
Rogue Amoeba is celebrating 20 YEARS in business! Read our blog post for a look back, as well as details on a very special (and limited-time) sale: weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2022/09/1…
Next week, something big is coming to rogueamoeba.com/. We’ll be spending the weekend warming up for it.
Stay tuned!
Looking for a good weekend read? Go behind the scenes into the process of designing Audio Hijack 4, with a great post from Rogue Amoeba’s designer Neale!
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The latest version (4.0.4) of our flagship audio recorder, Audio Hijack, brings a wealth of bug fixes and improvements. Choose “Check for Updates…” from right inside the app, or grab it from our site.
Never used Audio Hijack? Check it out at rogueamoeba.com/audiohija…
SoundSource 5.5.2 is now out, with fixes and improvements for our must-have sound control utility.
Release notes: rogueamoeba.com/support/k…
Learn more and download: rogueamoeba.com/soundsour…
Details on Forthcoming Support for MacOS 13 (Ventura)
Update (September 12, 2022): As our ever-useful Status page shows, we now have Ventura-compatible test releases available for all our products. We recommend all users stick with officially supported versions of MacOS, but if you’re already on Ventura, enable test releases to get the latest.
The 2022 edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference kicked off earlier today, and as expected the keynote announced a new version of MacOS arriving this fall: MacOS 13 (Ventura). We’ve already begun downloading the developer preview to start work on supporting Ventura, and—as always—our intent is to have official updates in time for the public release in the fall.
Skip Apple’s Betas
The announcement of a new operating system means it’s also time for our standard reminder that our software will not yet run on the new OS. We always urge our customers to steer clear of beta versions of Apple’s operating systems until we’ve had a chance to vet them, and that remains the case with Ventura.
Because OS updates can contain breaking changes to the audio system, we code our apps defensively to avoid causing issues. By design, our products that rely on our Audio Capture Engine (ACE) will not run on pre-release versions of MacOS, and our other apps will warn you of potential issues on launch. At present, that means running Ventura would preclude you from using most of our apps.
For now, you’ll need to be running MacOS 12 (Monterey), MacOS 11 (Big Sur), MacOS 10.15 (Catalina), or MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) to use our apps. Sticking with publicly released versions of MacOS ensures you can continue to use our tools.
In addition to our own products, we also license our audio capture technology for use in over a dozen third-party applications on the Mac. Products which license ACE, including popular applications like Discord, Logitech Capture, and Twitch, will also require updates for Ventura. The developers of those products will have more to share in the coming months, but you should not expect updates to come before the fall.
If you find yourself with an uncontrollable urge to be an OS beta tester, we strongly recommend taking Apple’s advice to install a separate copy in its own APFS volume on your Mac. It will preserve your ability to use the current release of MacOS (including our software and those third-party apps) while you check in on the upcoming OS release in a separate environment.
Test Releases
This is also a good time to remind you about our test release system, which we introduced last year. Test releases allow us to preview updates to our apps before a wider release, so if you’re interested in trying out changes to our products you can do so before the general public. In the future, those test releases will include the very first updates to be compatible with Ventura, and we’ll make note of that availability too.
To learn more about test releases, read this Knowledge Base article.
More to Come This Fall
Each year, we aim to ship compatible public versions of our software in time for Apple’s official release in fall. That’s a goal we’ve set, and met, for many years running. We intend to keep the streak going in 2022.
We’ll have more news on our own products soon, and our Status page always provides information on OS compatibility for all of our products. That page has already been refreshed with basic info on Ventura, and we’ll continue to update that in the coming months.
