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Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by mrtksn »

joenot443 wrote: post #284
mrtksn wrote: post #283

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Sure, I can I have the list? I wonder how the success looks like, maybe we simply don't agree on what a good business is. I'm strongly against get paid once support forever, I will skip on that success. Are you by any chance an employee at a large corporation, working for them then donating your time as free apps or apps costing you more than bring in? If that's the case, I will skip this success too. Are you talking…

Here are three I've bought in the last few months :) - BettterTouchTool: https://folivora.ai/buy - Synergy: https://symless.com/synergy/purchase - Loopback: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/buy.php Mertol, I'd encourage you to check out those apps, consider what the product does and the utility it provides, and then try and rethink the pricing on CrystalClear Sound to be more in line with what other professionals in…

I'm just trying to understand who is providing the advice. Are you giving an advice as someone who built actual business or are you someone who works in an actual business and donates his time and giving me the advice to do the same?

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by appendix-rock »

radicality wrote: post #258

> Most of the time, you have much higher quality microphones built in, so in most use cases, you want to hear from your AirPods but be heard from your internal microphone Is that true, have I been doing my google meets wrong this whole time? So you’re saying if I’m on my Mac and having a google Meet, and I’m using my AirPods, then I should have my mic input as MacBook and not as AirPods? Do you have any sources or yo…

“Do you have any empirical evidence…”

Ask yourself, “how easy would it be to test this myself?”

Now ask yourself, “how hard would it be for someone else to prove this and give me something that convinces me?”

Even people working in academia don’t say “show me empirical evidence!” This just feels standoffish.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by appendix-rock »

rmuratov wrote: post #239
jillesvangurp wrote: post #217

A good trick to prevent this is to set your microphone to an aggregate device that you create with the Audio Midi Device tool that comes with your mac. Open that, and create a new aggregate device with just the system microphone. Then set that as the default microphone. And now when applications access the microphone for whatever reason, your bluetooth headphones don't switch profile and keep on using the aggregate m…

Can you do the same with the iphone?

No.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by xyst »

ctippett wrote: post #83

Do 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/

I was about to mention. SoundSource is such an amazing app that truly just works. Very reasonable pricing model compared to the greedy subscription model.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by xyst »

dmitrygr wrote: post #98

Subscription for an app that has no server component or ongoing costs? This is how you piss off someone to release a free version. EDIT: seems someone already did long ago: https://github.com/milgra/airpodssoundqualityfixer

I wouldn’t be surprise if OP ripped off the code from here, changed some of the assets, and republished under App Store to get subscription $

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by xyst »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #182

OT but another reason why I got wired headphones for my desktop :)

Personally I’m just tired of the many exceptions and areas of shitty UX in the Apple ecosystem. macOS itself has taken a real shitter in the past 5 yrs. Every new major upgrade manages to break my workflow. Which is why I have switched to waiting for 3-4 months before upgrading.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by mrtksn »

appendix-rock wrote: post #289
mrtksn wrote: post #281

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I hear the feedback but no way I'm doing get payed once support forever or give away for free support forever. I've done these mistakes it the past, I might re-consider if I get rich or something and start donating my time to passion projects. Even the simplest apps end up having problems, even the perfect one can break when something in the environment changes. Working on even the simplest app is always a full time…

If someone I employed said that something “is a full-time job because I need to keep myself familiar”, I’d really have to hold in my laugh of disbelief, to say the least. You’ve taken the “people should pay ongoing for ongoing work” discourse and applied it beyond the degree to which most intend. Even if I wasn’t already using a perfectly adequate and free menu bar application to do exactly this, there’s no chance in…

I'm sorry, I can't switch from project to project at whim and keeping up with a project is something continuous for me.

Those who believe that it's a better practice to do it some other way should just do it. I've done my fair share of free apps, browser extensions etc back in the day. Not doing it again. I'm of course open to different business models where the app can be free and recoup the cost in some other way but so far haven't heard any suggestions.

It is alright if a project "fails" if I can't do free work or go through the agony of working on code I moved on long ago.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by superhuzza »

viraptor wrote: post #87
Osiris wrote: post #75

This is really a Bluetooth issue. The same happens with any headphones that have a mic on any OS. When Bluetooth mode is switched from Headphones to Headset (with mic), only much lower quality audio codes are used. Does anyone know if Bluetooth 6 adds support for higher quality codes for Headset? It's a big issue, in my opinion.

It was a Bluetooth issue years ago. Now it's only an Apple issue where it can't use a more decent codec. On Linux you can choose the mSBC codec and get decent two-way quality on a modern headset.

No, I've had this happen multiple times using various bluetooth headphones with my Google Pixel 8. So it's definitely happening on Android as well.

Re: Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

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Post by chris_st »

NullifyNAN wrote: post #266
mrtksn wrote: post #243

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How do you implement that?

The Due app does something like this. Basically it’s 1 time fee + subscription. The day you buy the app, you get every new feature for the next year and every previous feature. If a new feature is added, you can subscribe for $5 a year. Upon subscribing, you get all new features since your subscription lapsed. Blog post here: https://www.dueapp.com/blog/future-of-paid-upgrades.html

Loopy Pro does this as well.
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