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Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2016-04-17 · latest 2025-06-16

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  1. > Mac definitely doesn't https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic and others.
    comment by rendx · 2025-06-16 · in Canyon.mid
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    BackgroundMusic: Set per-app sound volume on macOS
    story by cadmium-44 · 2024-05-25 · 0 comments
  3. …https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ recover basic audio controls like per-app volume mixing: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic recover FUSE support: https://osxfuse.github.io/ recover configurability for a whole host of…
    comment by pxc · 2021-11-05 · in From macOS to Arch Linux
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    Background Music for Mac: automatically pause your music, set app volumes
    story by danboarder · 2021-07-02 · 0 comments
  5. …button. I'd love it if I didn't have to mute the entire computer. EDIT: For MacOS, I found this: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
  6. …performing a search whether to use global or current directory. And for volume mixer this exists: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic I have to say it really doesn't seem like you spent much effort trying to actually fix your…
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    A macOS audio utility: automatically pause music, set individual apps' volumes
    story by lukashed · 2017-11-24 · 0 comments
  8. …open source app[2] and a few other options out there. [1]: https://staticz.com/soundcontrol/ [2]: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
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    Background Music, an OS X audio utility
    story by dhruvbhatia · 2016-04-17 · 37 comments