BackgroundMusic VS MicSwitch

Compare BackgroundMusic vs MicSwitch and see what are their differences.

BackgroundMusic

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

MicSwitch

MicSwitch is a tool which allows you to mute/unmute your microphone using a predefined hotkey (by iXab3r)
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BackgroundMusic

Posts with mentions or reviews of BackgroundMusic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

MicSwitch

Posts with mentions or reviews of MicSwitch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.
  • Microphone software
    2 projects | /r/software | 16 Mar 2023
    For the Mic mute there are a few free programs which can do that. One is called MicMute and another is called MicSwitch. At least one of them can use a hotkey.
  • A 5-inch Touch Screen and Rainmeter, an Alternative to a StreamDeck or MIDI Device
    2 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 2 Jun 2022
    Finally, the last program I used is called MicSwitch. This program is actually something I had used before buying the 5-inch display, I just used a hotkey instead. This lets me mute or unmute my microphone using one of the dock's buttons. I used MicSwitch's overlay function to have an updating indicator on the dock. I just placed it over the button.
  • Just got a new MacBook M1Air 16gb/1TB
    11 projects | /r/macbook | 5 Jan 2022
    **Applications:** [Stats](https://github.com/exelban/stats) \- macOS system monitor in your menu bar [Maccy](https://maccy.app/) \- macOS clipboard manager [micSwitch](https://github.com/iXab3r/MicSwitch) \- mute/unmute your system microphone [MonitorControl](https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl) \- Control your external display's brightness & volume on your Mac [Rectangle](https://rectangleapp.com/) \- Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas [Background Music](https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic) \- set individual apps' volumes [Transmission](https://transmissionbt.com/) \- Free BitTorrent Client [Discord Canary](https://discord.com/api/download/canary?platform=osx) \- native M1 Discord app (direct download link)
  • MacBook apps you can't live without!
    30 projects | /r/mac | 18 Dec 2021
    micSwitch - mute/unmute your system microphone
  • Need a utility that can mute a microphone that doesn't have on/off button with a hotkey
    2 projects | /r/software | 17 Aug 2021
    Here are two, which work pretty good. Pick one. You can download the binaries for Windows from the Release Pages. AHK MicMute and MicSwitch. First one maybe needs AutoHotkey installed.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BackgroundMusic and MicSwitch you can also consider the following projects:

eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧

AHK_MicMute - Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys.

Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS

PlayCover - Community fork of PlayCover

Plugin.AudioRecorder - Audio Recorder plugin for Xamarin and Windows

PlayCover - PlayCover is a project that allows you to sideload iOS apps on macOS (currently arm, Intel support will be tested)

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

PoeLurker - Ease your trading experience in Path of Exile. [Moved to: https://github.com/C1rdec/Poe-Lurker]

BlackHole - BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems

Scroll-Reverser - Per-device scrolling prefs on macOS.

ButOSX - CSGO Cheat Base for MacOSX. Written in C++ & Objective C. Menu Powered by ImGui. Includes Apple TouchBar API.