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Mac soundsource review4/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This allows me to remote control my Mac Pro and leave the iTunes window at full screen. When you need that one little option that you can't access via the menu, SoundSource provides a link to the full Sound or Audio Midi preferences pane. This menu allows one click access to almost all the necessary functions you'll need when listening to your music server. SoundSource is actually just a little menu that appears in the upper right by the clock in OS X. Yes, there are several ways around this little issue like shrinking the size of the screen sharing window, but I don't consider that an ideal solution. This may sound a little weird so I suggest trying the screen sharing function in OS X and you'll see what I mean. For example the Docks on my MacBook Air and Mac Pro will appear simultaneously when I lower the mouse to the bottom of the screen. If I don't leave Audio Midi open I have to access it through the Dock, which brings up a host of other little issues. This frequently involves moving the iTunes window partially off the screen or making it very small in order to access the Audio Midi window I previously left open. While it works extremely well I still find it cumbersome to access Audio Midi Setup to switch sample rates and select outputs. I use my MacBook Air to control my Mac Pro through the screen sharing function in OS X. ![]() SoundSource 2.0 is a little "MenuExtra" that provides instant access to Input, Output, System sound settings, volume settings, and a quick way to get to the full Sound Preference Pane. SoundSource 2.0 from Rogue Amoeba does not solve the auto sample rate recognition issue, but does make life a little easier for OS X users. Even switching between outputs can be inconvenient. The engine is pretty unreliable I think.Those of us who often switch between several high resolution albums know that the current iTunes / Audio Midi situation is less than ideal. I can’t tell you how many times I tried getting it to work to pipe audio from a DJ app for example to a daw app and it just not work and I waste so much time troubleshooting it and shrug, reboot and then it works. The thing is, if you really try to work with Loopback into a semi complicated setup you realize how buggy it is. They should redo them all into one product and market them as pro plus and lite or something. All use the same engine so really just different skins on the same thing I guess. Audio hijack is the same as Loopback but has built in recording and a different layout. Sound source let’s you easily switch between devices and send audio from an app to a particular card and control levels a bit or use plugins on it. It’s similar to what you can do natively with audio midi setup and essentially rolling together several devices but with the added soundflower tech of piping application audio around. Loopback creates virtual soundcards essentially. It seems like they took the soundflower concept and ran with it to as many products as they can think of. It’s weird I agree and they all use that ACE audio engine of theirs whatever that is. ![]() Now, with the combined pages, people are complaining about “more” product announcements as if they weren’t there before, when they were - just in a different place. Lots of product announcements previously went on the two secondary pages, and likely weren’t seen by a segment of people who only looked at the front page. ![]() I suspect that one thing that may be generating more comments like this is the combining, a few months back, of the front page, iOS blog, and Mac blog, into one unified page. Save for that one case (which was addressed), I agree that MacRumors does a good job of separating the two, and making it clear which is which. I said as much in the comments, and recall receiving an understanding and agreeable response from the editors. It did, at the end, have a disclosure, but the problem as I saw it was that it started out sounding like reporting, with the announcement, and ended up sounding like praise, with the review, and there wasn’t a clear line between the two. Click to expand.I’ve read a lot of product announcements and reviews on MacRumors over the years, and Ive seen precisely one where I thought the were questionable editorial choices - it was sort of a product announcement combined with a review. ![]()
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