Hot VS BackgroundMusic

iMacs are sensitive and unusable if the room/environment temperature goes up 1-2 degrees. Once an iMac reaches temperatures that exceed its cooling capabilities, it will reduce the Scheduler Limit. This OS protection slows your computer down to a % of its actual performance. It's designed to reduce load down to a level that the computer can cope with, given its temperature situation. A tool called Hot will reveal the current scheduler limit, and you'll be able to verify this is the problem.

I'm using Hot: https://github.com/macmade/Hot

Use https://github.com/macmade/Hot to read temps instead. I don’t trust cleanmymac.

https://github.com/macmade/Hot show you the deets.

The Hot . app is great for showing how hot or cold my laptop is running, and whether it has throttled.

Hot: https://github.com/macmade/Hot

You can use the tool "Hot" (https://github.com/macmade/Hot) to check if we are investigating in the right direction.

For controlling a software defined volume like Windows has, try https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Download Background Music: LINK (free and open-source) Once downloaded, run it and you'll see it as an icon in your menu bar

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).

I had an app called Background Music that I deleted a few days ago, but it still shows up as an audio output in the Sound menu bar menu as well as in Settings.

you can check BackgroundMusic : https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Tried https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic before. But didn't work for me.