BackgroundMusic
Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. (by kyleneideck)
OpenEmu
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS (by OpenEmu)
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| BackgroundMusic | OpenEmu | |
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| 84 | 225 | |
| 15,027 | 15,717 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 4.6 | 8.2 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | Swift | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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MBP16 M2 + Dell u3419w
For controlling a software defined volume like Windows has, try https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
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HOW TO: Record Audio and Screen at the same time on a Mac for FREE!
Download Background Music: LINK (free and open-source) Once downloaded, run it and you'll see it as an icon in your menu bar
- Free Screen Recorder With System Audio
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MacOS Audio API
Thanks for the comment. I checked out Rogue Amoeba's SoundSource, and BackgroundMusic. I think they're using some sort of virtual audio device or something to intercept applications' audio data, control each application's volume, and then send it to the speakers (or another output device).
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App to automatically pause Spotify/Apple Music when YouTube video starts playing
Tried https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic before. But didn't work for me.
- As someone who works from coffee shops often, I WISH the MacOS volume glyph would reflect a connected device like iOS does
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[LTT] Mac Users Deserve Better – 7 Unacceptable Problems with MacOS
For per-app volume control I use Background Music: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
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[macOS] Capturing system audio / signed kernel extensions.
Here’s another
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Questions from a Windows User
BackgroundMusic is free. Again there are likely alternatives.
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MacOS & MacBook 1 Month in coming from Windows
This tool does that. I haven’t used it myself, but people have had great things to say about it. Plus it’s open source!
OpenEmu
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenEmu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
Tangentially related: if anybody is looking for a good way to organize a library of retro emulators and games on their MacOS laptops/desktop computers then I recommend OpenEmu. It is designed from the ground up to look and feel like a Mac app.
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Desmume emulator not working
Hey there, for an emulation beginner and macOS user, and as an easy workaround, I'd recommend you use OpenEmu . It's a frontend for multiple Nintendo/Sega/Retro console emulators at once (Nintendo handhelds up to DS, and consoles up to Gamecube), and works completely out of the box with controller support. Best of luck!
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Emulators for Mac
RetroArch - pcsxr - stella - nestopia - DeSmuME - OpenEmu
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i just wrote a simple bash script to turn my game rom collection into a static webpage. it's far from perfect but for sure better than scrolling trough folders when looking for something to play!
If you're on Mac I personally love open emu https://openemu.org/
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Why is this issue closed? I'm disappointed to see comments get shut down and the developer get snippy with people Rather than admit there is an issue to be resolved.
It was fixed so it was closed but there was no new release. You have to build it yourself if you want the fix.
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Is OpenEmu still maintained/are new features planned?
414 commits since last release. I’d say that’s some significant activity. https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/releases/tag/v2.3.3
The last commit to master was 2023/02/26 - https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/commit/6d25e3da75558bf976f9efee3688fdf8f6c51d8f
You're better off asking the contributing developers directly on GitHub. There's no guarantee they're paying attention to reddit.
- Am I the only one who can't stand Retroarch?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing BackgroundMusic and OpenEmu you can also consider the following projects:
dolphin - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
desmume - DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧
Provenance - iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
rpcs3 - PS3 emulator/debugger
PlayCover - PlayCover is a project that allows you to sideload iOS apps on macOS (currently arm, Intel support will be tested)
OpenEmu-BIOS - OpenEmu BIOS Pack
bsnes-hd - bsnes fork that adds HD video features
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
snes9x - Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator