Rogue Amoeba - Under The Microscope

Fission Is Coming...

Tue, 13 Jun 2006

Here at Rogue Amoeba HQ, we're working hard on our next major application, dubbed Fission. Fission is an audio editor allowing the cutting and trimming of pieces from audio files, as well as splitting files into multiple pieces. Perhaps most impressively, Fission edits MP3 and AAC files without re-encoding. It'll also work on AIFF and Apple lossless files. Not at all coincidentally, this is the quartet of recording formats Audio Hijack Pro supports.

Fission is now in need of testers. If you're interested in testing Fission, just follows these simple steps.

Step 1: Register for an account on our Forums (or Fora, if you prefer).

Step 2: E-mail us with your full name, email address, and forum member name.

Update: Well, that was fast. Beta-testing for Fission is now closed. Stay tuned for more news on Fission as it nears release.

Step 3: Begin a new, better life testing software.

Positions are limited, so sign up now.

Posted by Paul | Permalink | View/Post Comments (11)

Comments

JIm Graves
Tue Jun 13 19:41:20 2006

I would like to be a beta tester for your app.

David Ostler
Tue Jun 13 21:16:31 2006

I could really use an app like this. I'd love to get in early on the beta.
Thanks

devonair
Wed Jun 14 00:31:12 2006

Argh... I was too slow to notice the Beta. How can people apply to be potentially added to the pool of testers later?

John Hood
Wed Jun 14 00:48:05 2006

I'd welcome consideration once/if beta testing is reopened! Thanks.

David
Wed Jun 14 08:20:21 2006

ah, now this is the sort of thing i've been hanging on to my Rogue Amoeba coupon for. now if i could only find where i put it.

Geoff Wilson
Wed Jun 14 23:10:26 2006

What I'd be hanging for is for the audio editing suite to feature dead simple bluetooth integration to mobile phones.

If you can slice and dice audio with ease, then you can decemate the ring tone market. Rather than having teens pay $$$ for a small audio snip of a song they already own (one w/o licensing of course), they can extract and push to the phone device.

The only downside is you'd have to try to grok the Cocoa bluetooth API. Not fun.

Paul
Thu Jun 15 04:24:35 2006

Sorry guys, testing is now closed (particularly if you didn't follow the instructions in the post, come on now...). As far as signing up for the next pool, just watch this site (subscribe to the RSS feed).

Geoff, everyone has their own idea of what Fission should be, and they're all different 8). We'll see what happens. Integration with cell phones is interesting, but Bluetooth File Exchange handles that pretty well already. Perhaps we can script that though.

sjk
Sat Jun 17 20:43:47 2006

I have no idea what the selection process details were, but if Fission beta testers were chosen on a "first come, first served" basis that's a rather dubious method ...

Qualifying for testing just by being an early bird is definitely an easy way for both parties, while blindly ignoring people that don't happen to get the announcement soon enough who may have valuable feedback based on related knowledge/experience rather than simply being the quickest to sign up.

Paul
Sun Jun 18 19:02:33 2006

First-come, first-serve for simple beta testing is pretty standard. "A rather dubious method"? I don't think so. This is a self-selecting process, the people that apply are people who want to test software. Sure, we'll miss some people who might have been more useful, but how many voices can we have yelling at us at once?

As far as your second paragraph, I really have no idea what you're saying there. This isn't a job application, it's simple feedback on an application.

sjk
Mon Jun 19 04:48:44 2006

I commented on what the "first come, first serve" selection process looks like from my perspective since that's the impression I had of what happened here. Obviously Rogue Amoeba can choose beta testers however they wish.

And more generally, I was questioning the method of picking beta testers solely on the basis of which applicants respond quickest because they get announcements sooner than others who'd be at least as interested and/or qualified. That type of selection prejudice could be reduced by increasing the amount of time applications are accepted, then randomly selecting the desired number of testers from all applicants during that period of time.

Personally, I'd rather apply and miss out by luck of the draw than see both an announcement and its "sorry, you're too late" followup at the same time without any chance to apply (as happened here).

Cotty Chubb
Mon Jun 19 18:20:38 2006

I very much want to participate in Fission beta (or gamma) testing, or know when it comes out so I clicked the RSS feed button and got a page of (to me) gibberish with a header that reads "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

The page starts like this:

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<description>Inside the minds of the Rogue Amoebas</description>

Can you give me a URL that I can point Shrook to so I can be up to date with you?

Many thanks,

Cotty

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