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Background Music, an OS X audio utility
- paublyrne 10y agoA general mixer was the one thing I really missed from my windows machine when I bought my first Macbook. I wasn't a programmer back then and assumed that since there were practically no apps that allowed you to mix app volumes it was technically very difficult to do on OSX. I'll be interested to see how you develop this.
- genmon 10y agoRogue Amoeba do a good collection of audio apps: http://rogueamoeba.com http://rogueamoeba.com -- it's possible to add effects, mix, etc. Nothing as simple + dedicated as Background Music tho.
- themartorana 10y agoNo, but I pair Audio Hijack 3 which is just amazing (Audio Hijack Pro was great, the renamed "3" drops the "Pro" and adds gorgeous) with an external Schiit Modi 2 DAC and Vali amp (and some nice Seinheisser headphones) and have fantastic music for sub $500. Background Music could totally slip into this setup!
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhat did you use Audio Hijack for?
- themartorana 10y agoMostly a series of equalizers, and volume control. The amp provides amazing volume control (not much distortion even at high high volume) so I pull it back a bit before sending it through. I have different equalizers so I can turn on and odd discrete passes based on the music. AH's ability to send the sound across multiple output paths is also really nice and I use that (less often) as well.
- stordoff 10y agoIt's a great feature, but Microsoft appears to have crippled it in Windows 10 - none of the Windows 10 native applications (not sure of the correct term, but stuff like MS Store applications and the built-in music/video players) are shown in the volume mixer.
- xythobuz 10y agoWoah. I've recently tried to do something similar in userspace, but came to the conclusion that it's not possible without a kernel driver. I'm impressed, and tempted to use this soon :)
- checker659 10y agoIt's possible. See Volume Mixer (http://volumemixer-app.com http://volumemixer-app.com).
- aioprisan 10y agoSomeone needs to build this into a DMG
- explorigin 10y ago...or homebrew
- Kequc 10y agoSurprised to just have realised this wasn't built into os x. I seem to remember Spotify pausing itself when I received a Skype call. But maybe that was just my imagination or a dream or something. Felt like per app audio volume was standard in operating systems, I didn't even think about it.
- Sidnicious 10y agoOff topic, check out the uninstall instructions. Uninstallation is bad on OS X, and it would be amazing if someone could come up with a nice, general answer (like Sparkle did for updates). On topic, this is great work.
- jordanlev 10y agoThis app seems to have a bit more complication than most, due to tapping into the operating system more deeply (I presume). But for most apps I've found AppCleaner to work very well for uninstalling all related files (regardless of where they're scattered about): https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
- sotojuan 10y agoAppCleaner works great. I also recommend it.
- angeloashmore 10y agoOS X apps installed via Homebrew Cask can have a "zap" command defined that will automate a deep uninstall: `brew cask zap <app_name>` It isn't an acceptable answer for the average Mac user, but it at least solves the issue for a subset of users.
- brightball 10y agoProbably inspired by AppZapper which does a great job of addressing the problem
- techdragon 10y agoThe majority of MacPorts programs I installed over the years uninstalled cleanly. Also I could be wrong but isn't/wasn't the whole "fat binaries + static binaries + app binary and its associated assets live in a magic folder that the OS-X GUI displays as 'the app' + other past Mac app trickery such as resource forks etc" all meant to make both app install and UN-install painless and easy ? I know and used a few commercial apps that were a damn pain to scrub completely off the Macs I owned but that was expensive proprietary commercial software that felt the need to take my money and also saddle me with DRM to enforce their licensing.
- rosstex 10y agoWow, thanks for this!
- loktarogar 10y agoLooks great! Could be better with a "how it works" section, as it seems it shunts things off into a background music channel?
- herrvogel- 10y agoThis is perfect and so easy to use. Thanks!
- KiDD 10y agoWould buy
- 0x0 10y agoHoping Apple would be sherlocking this for MacOS 12 :)
- yoavm 10y agoI've been using this GNOME extension for a while and couldn't be happier: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/858/volume-mixer/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/858/volume-mixer/ It's only the mixer though (with the volume boost) - no automatic pause or recording system audio (not that I ever missed these).
- ngriffin731 10y agoGreat work! This could be even better by quickly fading in the audio like iOS. It a bit abrasive for it to just drop, especially on larger speakers. And obviously having a dmg would be better too.
- chrissnell 10y agoFeature request: figure out how to make the pause button on my Mac keyboard pause a YouTube video.
- xemoka 10y agoWould someting like Streamkeys [ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/streamkeys/ekpipjofdicppbepocohdlgenahaneen https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/streamkeys/ekpipjo... ] work?
- ash 10y agoI'm using Keysockey Chrome extension for YouTube (and many other websites): https://github.com/borismus/keysocket https://github.com/borismus/keysocket (I use Keysocket it every day. However, media key handling breaks when I have apps like VLC running at the same time on OS X. As far as I know, it's a Chrome bug, because it ignores SPMediaKeyTap, defacto standard library to handle media keys on OS X.)
- samdoshi 10y agoThere is also BeardedSpice which is a Mac native menubar app, works with lots of websites, YouTube included. http://beardedspice.github.io/ http://beardedspice.github.io/
- BenElgar 10y agoDoes anyone know of anything similar for Linux?
- checker659 10y agoThere's also Volume Mixer for Mac : http://volumemixer-app.com http://volumemixer-app.com