Awesome Mac
Section: System Related Tools · Control app volumes and record system audio.
FreshScore 94
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BackgroundMusic
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Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards.
Open github.comkyleneideck/backgroundmusic
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Awesome MacOS
Section: Audio · Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards.
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Section: Audio & Music · macOS audio utility to control volume per-app. Free Open Source
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Section: Audio (40) · Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
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Section: Other · Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
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