BackgroundMusic VS VolMixerEXE

Compare BackgroundMusic vs VolMixerEXE 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)
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BackgroundMusic VolMixerEXE
84 1
15,027 7
- -
4.6 0.0
about 1 month ago over 2 years ago
C++ C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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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.

VolMixerEXE

Posts with mentions or reviews of VolMixerEXE. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-24.
  • Free equaliser for big sur?
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 24 Oct 2021
    eqMac is probably your best bet for a free EQ app, and either VolMixerEXE or BackgroundMusic being your best free system audio control app. For paid apps, Boom2 is the best EQ I know of and SoundSource is probably the best for system volume control.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS

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

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

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

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

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

autorandr - Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr

libASPL - C++17 library for creating macOS Audio Server plugins.

Tonic - Easy and efficient audio synthesis in C++

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS