industry computer software founded 2002 headquarters boston ma united states key people quentin carnicelli cto toolsmith paul kafasis ceo lackey 1 alex lagutin senior programmer head of r & d products airfoil audio hijack audio hijack pro fission nicecast pulsar radioshift loopback piezo website rogueamoeba.com rogue amoeba software inc. is a macintosh software company that produces audio software specializing in applications for audio capture . rogue amoeba s best known products are audio hijack and audio hijack pro . the audio hijack programs allow for users to capture and record audio from any program running under mac os x. the pro version adds support for vst audio unit and ladspa 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 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 . 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 1 two o reilly mac os x innovators awards 2 3 and two macworld eddy awards . 4 5 history edit 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 mp3 player and then at soft software developers of macamp itself . along with dmitry boldyrev creator of macamp lagutin and kafasis left soft to form subband software . 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 . 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 edit cook brad 2004 01 09 . macworld best of show awards announced . macworld . retrieved 2007 01 13 . hydra voodoopad finish tops in second mac os x innovators contest . o reilly . 2003 07 10 . retrieved 2007 01 13 . u.s. and international winners of the 2004 mac os x innovators contest announced . o reilly . 2004 10 26 . retrieved 2007 01 13 . macworld staff 2004 12 13 . digital music products of the year the 20th annual editors choice awards . macworld . retrieved 2007 01 13 . fission 1.1 editor offers easy inexpensive way to trim audio files . macworld . retrieved 2007 01 13 . external links edit rogue amoeba paul kafasis of rogue amoeba on fission their new audio editing tool macvoices 2006 09 20 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rogue amoeba & oldid 733791269 categories mac software companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 august 2016 at 04 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view