The vast majority of listeners rock out with streaming music services like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and many others. While it is certainly still in use today, it is small niche compared to the promise it originally showed. As well, after a brief ascendancy, internet radio has not continued to grow. However, Nicecast never gained widespread popularity, and thus has always been a junior player in our product lineup. It was very exciting, and we improved the app significantly in the first few years.

Hobbyists were able to live out their DJ fantasies, while terrestrial radio stations could easily provide online access to their content as well. In short order, Nicecast users were providing hundreds of different streams for the world. With Nicecast, even novices could get started streaming audio from their Macs to listeners around the globe. So it was that we decided to join our powerful audio capture with a simple user interface on top of the open-source command-line icecast MP3 streaming server. At the time, it was very difficult to create an online radio station. Soon after Audio Hijack provided the ability to record any audio on the Mac, users asked us to make it possible to broadcast any audio to the world. Nicecast was one of Rogue Amoeba’s earliest apps, first released way back in 2003, and receiving more than sixty updates since then. Nicecast will be supported on MacOS 10.10 through 10.13 until the end of 2018, after which it will be fully deprecated. Nicecast is no longer available for purchase, and we do not plan any further updates. Today, our internet radio tool Nicecast is being retired from active development. We encourage you to read this blog post for details on migrating to a modern broadcasting setup powered by Audio Hijack.

Nicecast is no longer in development, but we have now updated Audio Hijack to replace it for most users.

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