I don't mind subscriptions at all, I pay for tons of them and am happy with them, but it's egregious to me that this would be a subscription.
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Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
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Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#202> if you use your mic to talk to people or record something, you will have better sound quality too.
How often do you talk to people or record something while listening to a streamed song on your buds, ... and which has to be uninterrupted and in high quality?
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#203I don't mind subscriptions at all, I pay for tons of them and am happy with them, but it's egregious to me that this would be a subscription.
I hope they introduce a cheaper plan for just a single earbud /s
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#204> I decided to go with a very cheap subscription model because I suspect further development might be needed as bugs emerge or API behavior changes
Right, makes me wonder how did companies even exist before the subscription model.
> I don't know what would the right price be for supporting an app for years to come and still have people willing to pay for it
Not to sound too negative, but your app might not even exist a year from today. It's a single utility app, let people buy it if they want to fix a bug with Bluetooth+AirPods, not to subscribe to a bug fix.
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#205This is more or less only (sadly) a problem with apple headphones.
You can switch the current microphone on Mac by ALT-Clicking the audio menubar icon. Normally MacOS will remember and follow your decision, except when you have apple headphones. For some stupid reason MacOS forces the headphone microphone on those.
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was excited to try this, since I'm a bit tired of selecting the input manually multiple times per day. Unfortunately, connecting AirPods automatically switches the input to them, regardless of the previously selected input device, whether it's an aggregate device or not.
Hm let me double check on this tomorrow! It works with my Sony headphones (which also cause MacOS to go into bad audio mode when you eg launch Shazam) but not sure I have tried the same with AirPods. Unless I did something else to lock it to that device and I’ve forgotten… anyway I’ll check on my work machine tomorrow
It works with your Sony headphones, cause MacOS only forces the headphone mic for apple headphones. Sucks, but is the annoying truth.
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#207> if you use your mic to talk to people or record something, you will have better sound quality too. How often do you talk to people or record something while listening to a streamed song on your buds, ... and which has to be uninterrupted and in high quality ?
Post-pandemic, you'll find a lot of people using their computers in such a fashion. "hanging out" with people in a voice chat often involves prolonged periods of silence and it's not uncommon for some subset of the voice chat to be doing other things such as listening to music or playing a game.
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#208There are other apps out there that do this e.g. ToothFairy https://c-command.com/blog/2024/03/06/toothfairy-2-8-4/
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#209Do I need this if I already use something like SoundSource[1] to manually set the input source that's not the AirPods microphone? [1] https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/
And SoundSource is way cheaper per year on average. Version 5 came 4 years ago as a $40 purchase or a $20 upgrade, so it’s about a half or fourth the annual price. It also has way more features and is far more tested.
If SoundSource is a one-time $40 purchase, I’d be willing to pay not more than, say, $5 one time for just this one of its features.
Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
#210I don't mind subscriptions at all, I pay for tons of them and am happy with them, but it's egregious to me that this would be a subscription.
I hope they introduce a cheaper plan for just a single earbud /s
Freemium version may get you left only… also pipe ads in. Sub gets you ad free (for now) and both buds!