Today we’re happy to be shipping the newest update to Radioshift, our popular tool for playing and recording internet radio. Radioshift last saw an update way back in May, but we’ve been hard at work on a major update, and it’s finally arrived. If you’re already using Radioshift (and you’re on Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 10.6), you can update immediately by choosing Check For Update from the Radioshift menu, or click to download from our site.

For this update, we’ve focused on improving many different aspects of Radioshift. To start, Radioshift now supports thousands of new streams which were previously only available via web-based players, including some of the world’s most popular streaming stations. In addition, Radioshift now better supports hundreds of other streams in the Windows Media Pro and QuickTime formats.

We’ve worked to improve Radioshift’s reliability as well. With version 1.5, when errors are detected with a stream, Radioshift will attempt to get the stream playing again by restarting it. It will also attempt to load backup streams when available. Even with less reliable streams, Radioshift will be working to make sure you get your audio, automatically.

There are plenty of other updates in Radioshift 1.5, from an improved interface to support for transmitting its audio via Airfoil, and much more. Best of all, all of this is entirely free for owners of Radioshift. So if you already use Radioshift, update now!

If you’ve never used it, try Radioshift free, today! Even if you’ve tried it before and didn’t purchase, Radioshift 1.5 is worth a second look. Visit the Radioshift page for more information on our great internet radio player and recorder, or just click to download now.

Right now here at Rogue Amoeba, we’ve got two open positions on our Jobs page.

First up is a new position for a Windows (.NET) software engineer. We’re looking for someone to help us with Airfoil for Windows, as well as Airfoil Speakers on Windows, Linux, and possibly other platforms. This is not our usual crowd of readers on Under The Microscope, but perhaps our readers (that’s you!) can help spread the word to qualified applicants.

Our second position, for a senior Cocoa user interface software engineer, has been open for some time. We’ve received many good candidates for this position, but no one has been quite right just yet. We’re looking for a developer with extensive experience with Objective-C and Cocoa, and leading a product from conception to release is a major plus.

So if you’re interested or know someone who might be a good fit, take note of the Jobs page for more detail.

Every day, more and more users are finding out just how great it is to send audio around their entire house, wirelessly, with Airfoil. We’re not slowing down either – today, we’re happy to announce that Airfoil 3.5 is now available!

Users of Elgato’s EyeTV will be very pleased with this update. If you’ve ever tried to watch EyeTV video while sending the audio remotely, you’ve seen that the audio and video don’t sync up. We’ve teamed up with Elgato to work around this issue. Now, with EyeTV 3.3 and Airfoil 3.5, local video is delayed to perfectly sync with remote audio – excellent!

We’ve also vastly improved the process of pulling audio from both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop. To grab their audio you’ll need the Instant Hijack component installed, via the Install Extras… window in the Airfoil menu. Once that’s installed, just choose Fusion or Parallels in the Source pop-up at the bottom of the Airfoil window, and Airfoil will take care of the rest!

Airfoil for Mac 3.5 is a free update. Just choose Check For Update from the Airfoil menu, or click to download from our site. If you haven’t used Airfoil before, grab the free Airfoil trial.

We recently received a postcard out of the blue, showing off Tim Klein’s Yarn Car. The Yarn Car is a 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperial covered in over 4 miles of yarn to create a stunning design. Crazy? Yes. But also very cool. Tim mailed us to let us know he’s using Fission and Audio Hijack Pro on audio he later plays in the car.

This car’s stereo plays music sliced + diced with Fission and Audio Hijack. You rogues rock!!!

-Tim

Are you using our products in an interesting or obscure way? Let us know!

Update: Thanks guys – we’re all set, there’s no need to email any more sessions lists. Thanks again!

In order to help us design the next generation of Audio Hijack applications, we need to know more about how you (yes, you!) use Audio Hijack Pro. Knowing the answers to questions like “How many sessions do you have?” or “What are you recording?” will help us greatly.

So, we’re collecting information on how people use Audio Hijack Pro. Please send us your Audio Hijack Pro sessions! E-mail them to hello@rogueamoeba.com.

Your session list itself is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Audio Hijack Pro/SessionList.plist. That SessionList.plist file is the only one we need, so attach that to an email and send it over.

So send us your sessions, to hello@rogueamoeba.com. Just attach that session list file (~/Library/Application Support/Audio Hijack Pro/SessionList.plist).

And thank you for your help in shaping the future of audio recording!