Today, our internet radio tool Nicecast is being retired from active development. Nicecast is no longer available for purchase, and we do not plan any further updates. Nicecast will be supported on MacOS 10.10 through 10.13 until the end of 2018, after which it will be fully deprecated.
Nicecast has been around since 2003, and was designed to make it easy to stream audio to the web. The initial case of pirate Internet radio stations has all but died off, but many, many podcasters (including us at Relay FM) still use the app to stream shows live via our Icecast server. I’d love to see Rogue Amoeba roll that ability into Audio Hijack.
It seems that may be the case, reading on in the company’s blog post:
While Nicecast is now retired, we’re considering future solutions to help users broadcast to more modern streaming options. In particular, we know many podcasters provide a live stream using Nicecast. We hope to eventually provide a more comprehensive solution for that use case.
Fingers crossed!
Update: Rogue Amoeba has published an extremely helpful blog post to help with the migration away from Nicecast when the day comes. While I’ll be using Nicecast as long as possible, it’s good to know there are other options out there.