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Background Music

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Background Music is a macOS audio utility that can automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes, and record system audio.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
5 / 5 Avg rating (4)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Advanced volume mixing
  2.  System audio recording
  3.  Adaptive Backgrounds
  4.  Audio Recording
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Per-app volumen control

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Background Music information

  • Developed by

    US flagKyle Neideck
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    11 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Audio & Music

GitHub repository

  •  17,210 Stars
  •  702 Forks
  •  504 Open Issues
  •   Updated Dec 22, 2024 
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Background Music, and it has gotten 16 likes

Background Music was added to AlternativeTo by gabe_mitnick on Jan 8, 2017 and this page was last updated Dec 3, 2020.

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Top Positive Comment
zx zzz1
Jan 10, 2019
1

Very powerfull volume control allowing for specific setups, it can even set left-right balance per app, thats really cool ^^

BurnerWah
Nov 13, 2023
0

Why was this not built into Mac OS

Guest
Sep 29, 2022
0

I use Ear trumpet on windows and love it, was looking for the mac version. Down loaded background music, just like sound trumpet, been a great small app for sound control

Thomas Swain
Dec 1, 2020
0

Great quality, also helps play music at a higher volume than usual!

What is Background Music?

"Background Music can pause your music player app when other audio starts playing and unpause it afterwards. The idea is that when I'm listening to music and pause it to watch a video or something I always forget to unpause it afterwards. So this keeps me from wearing headphones for hours listening to nothing. So far iTunes, Spotify, VLC, VOX, Decibel and Hermes are supported."