Switch to a profile automatically when a given audio device is activated

[marco-brandizi]

Normally I use an equaliser's profile for my Mac's speakers that enhances the voice and raise the bass a bit. Sometimes I plug in a pair of headphones that have very good bass audio, so good that I have to use another profile to lower the basses. It would be helpful if I could tell eqMac2 that I want to switch to one profile automatically, when the internal speakers are selected as audio device, and to the other, when the headphones are.

[nodeful]

Good feature, but quite a bit of work to implement. Won't be a priority any time soon

[jajke25]

Could there be a temporary workaround to do this using AppleScript and Automator?

[nodeful]

I am not sure as I never used AppleScript or Automator. Is there something, like an API I have to expose for you guys to write scripts on top?

[nodeful]

First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of communication and responses to the current issue and all other issues in general.
I have made a conscious decision to focus most of my free time and focus on developing a more modern and new version of "eqMac". This means that I can't spend too much time looking back at old codebase and trying to make every user happy. This was the main reason I made this repository open-source, in hopes that other developers might help to sort out some issues and iron out all the bugs. Unfortunately, there are very few developers that are proficient in Core Audio and Objective-C or maybe they are just not interested in this repo, which I can understand.
I promise that the next version will be much more polished and I will make some sort of a mainstream system were solving issues will be very easy and quick. Just sit tight and wait for a new release this coming summer.
Thank you to everyone who gave "eqMac2" a try and I hope I won't disappoint you next time :)

Heres a sneak peak of the UI I am currently working on:

[neaf]

As a software developer myself I totally appreciate the work you put into this project. I also 100% respect your decision to work on the UI and make it as you would like you to look despite the fact that personally I think it's not necessary. You're doing it in your free time and that should be fun for you and not just responding to user's requests.

I'm using eqmac to reduce low frequencies on bass-boosted consumer headphones like Beats or Bose at work, on trains etc. Even an ability to assign a global keyboard shortcut to preset/profile would definitely help with that use case.

[nodeful]

Hey everyone. Excuse me for the lack of updates. I have been really busy on the new version of eqMac. I am happy to announce an open beta release.
You can download it here: https://eqmac.app
There are a lot of known bugs that I could not fix just yet:

• Driver not installing from the first try. Sometimes need to restart eqMac a couple times.
• Complex Device switching logic is not perfect (for example when switching off the device that's currently playing, plugging in new device etc.)
• UI takes long to load (a lot can be done to improve that)
• UI dimensions are not synching properly
• There's a noticeable audio delay in the playback, so not suitable for video yet (I know where the problem lies just haven't had the time to fix yet)
• Sometimes the playback doesn't start, in that case please try to switch the output to the device you want and eqMac should try and build the audio pipeline again.

So as you can see there's still some work to be done but at least it's a completely modern tech stack that I am fully willing to work on: 100% Swift, User Space driver and a Web UI, instead of C++, Kernel Drivers. As I said, should work on Catalina and should not have any pesky ear drum blasting volume bugs (at least I didn't come across any).
I'm open to feedback and issue reports here: https://github.com/bitgapp/eqmac
That repo will become the main repo for eqMac and this repo will be archived eventually.
And yes it's called just eqMac, not eqMac3 :) And it will stay that way forever.

[nodeful]

Hey everyone 👋
I will be open sourcing the new version of eqMac, therefore, I am closing this issue and repository as I will be transfering nodeful/eqMac2 repo to bitgapp/eqMac
Please bear with me for the next couple of days as I setup that new repo. The eqMac2 code will be living in the old-eqMac2 branch if anyone is interested in referencing it for whatever reason.
Please try out the new version and report bugs to the new repo.
Thanks for using eqMac.

[nodeful]

Moving discussion to #231