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karlstav / cava

Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
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Is it possible to use Cava without "Background Music" on MacOS? #578

Closed hungvx-dev closed 2 months ago

hungvx-dev commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic has too many errors. Is there an alternative to Background Music or without it?

karlstav commented 2 months ago

As the readme says there is also soundflower, but I am not sure if it still works. Other than that I don't know any.

hungvx-dev commented 2 months ago

@karlstav Thank you for reply. But Soundflower is too old to use and hasn't been updated since 2014. Also no support for M1 chip. I don't understand much about the technology behind Cava. Can you explain to me why Capturing audio is needed? Can Loopback/Blackhole be used instead?

karlstav commented 2 months ago

both of those can be used yes. They both solve the issue of capturing audio, which is basically sending audio from one application to another.

blackhole looks cool, there is also something called iShowU Audio Capture. If you get any of them working, feel free to add a howto here or make a PR for the readme file.