SoundSource VS Background Music

SoundSource

The sound control that should be built into MacOS

Background Music

Control the audio on your Mac apps from the menu bar

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2021-10-12

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2023-08-02

Using Rogue Amoeba's SoundSource to Control Audio on Your Mac - SoundSource Review

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SoundSource and Background Music)

Background Music

Note Taking

75 75%

Note Taking

25% 25

Audio

100 100%

Audio

0% 0

Focus Music

0 0%

Focus Music

100% 100

Web Service Automation

73 73%

Web Service Automation

27% 27

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SoundSource seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 125 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SoundSource mentions (125)

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
This is hilariously biased. This is HN, you're not talking to people who don't know what Linux is. Hell, a huge portion of us are linux engineers of various sorts. You're also in a thread literally about a linux app. Anyway. I would never, ever use Linux as a desktop environment over OSX after the experiences I've had with it over the last 20+ years. OSX GUI applications absolutely blow everything that Linux has... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Best EQ for Mac 2023
Https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ (this has parametric EQ but it's a bit buried IIRC. It also has built-in support for AutoEQ according to this page so you might have to do almost nothing if you like the Harman curve). Source: 10 months ago
Detailed audio device control?
I've looked at https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ and the features it has seems okay such as per-app volume levels. But I'd like it so when I connect a certain pair of headphones, then a pre-defined output and input device is set. So for Headphone A, the output might be set to this pair but the mic will be the build-in mic in my Macbook. And for Headphone B, both the output and input should be set to this... Source: 10 months ago
MUTE A SPECIFIC APP
Https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ or https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic. Source: 12 months ago
Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?
Soundsource - per app volume control just like windows. Source: 12 months ago