Well suited doesn't meant designed for, and that's not the implication.
The thread of this conversation is why someone might use Audio Hijack instead of a no-cost alternative (of which there are many.)
I'm suggesting that Audio Hijack makes it very easy to rip music from free music services such as Spotify. Thus providing a reason why someone might choose to pay for Audio Hijack rather than the no-cost option.
It's much tidier to have a set of pre-sorted (and if one is clever, pre-named and tagged) output files rather than having one long audio output that would require time to sit and divide up manually.
In my experience if the silence gap is set too low, any pause or silence in the song will trigger a new file for the same song, and if too big, it will sometimes lump two songs together.
It takes extra time verifying that each file is only one track and the full track.
I have opted to turn off the silence detection, record one big file of my playlist, and then use Fission to split up the file while referencing the length of each track. Audacity is a free wav editor that would work for this, but I do love Rogue Amoeba software and Fission is probably a bit quicker.
It still takes a little time but Fission does make it fairly quick and easy, and I prefer this consistent process.
So in my opinion, the auto silence separation is not a killer feature that makes ripping audio significantly easier.
Also I don't think it has the ability to automatically name files appropriately, so you still have to go back and name each individual file, which I handle as I'm splitting them.
