So for instance if you depend on screen sharing through Discord and need to have the sound be transmitted, you probably don't want to be on a Mac OS beta on that computer. And because for whatever reason Mac OS's screen capture API still can't record system audio, it's very popular with anyone doing screen sharing type things.Ĭoincidentally Rogue Amoeba always takes some time to update this module to work with the newest Mac OS, usually they release a beta a week or two before the final release, and until then most of their apps won't work and neither will any functionality that depends on it. It's used not only by audio hijack but also their other apps like Airfoil, and as people said before they also license this component to other companies. When I dont have speakers connected to my Mac I use Audio Hijack to boost EQ from my Macs puny internal speaker, selectable by app or can apply it to all. Rogue Amoeba made a piece of software called 'Audio Capture Engine' or ACE, which is the part that's actually responsible for getting the audio from the system.

Like others said it's been around for a very long time and isn't malicious. Audio Hijack is an app that lets you take any audio on your system from any app or microphone and then do something with it like record it to an audio file, run it through effects like making the sound louder or broadcast it to a server.

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