Can anyone explain why something like this is necessary on a Macbook, but when I use my airpods with my iPhone I seem to get high quality audio and microphone usage at the same time?
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#32It has been a few years since LE Audio has standardized and a lot of digging has led me to the conclusion that it should support decent audio with multiple channels (as it‘s not artificially limited like the Hands Free Profile). I‘d have expected Apple to jump on this to finally solve this stupid issue once and for all, but … nope.
I just want to listen to music while on a phone call. It’s not that crazy.
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#33Same can be achieved in a few lines of Lua using Hammerspoon and hs.audiodevice API. local builtinMicName = "MacBook Pro Microphone" hs.audiodevice.watcher.setCallback(function(e) defaultMic = hs.audiodevice.defaultInputDevice():name() if (e == "dIn " and defaultMic ~= builtinMic) then local builtinMic = hs.audiodevice.findInputByName(builtinMicName) builtinMic:setDefaultInputDevice() end end) hs.audiodevice.watcher.…
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#3423€ per year for an automatic source switcher ? I understand it might be more tricky that it looks, but it's more than I am willing to pay, event for a lifetime license.
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#35If I press the option key of the Mac and clic on the speaker icon of the menu bar, I can select the source of the speaker and mic as well. Am I missing something here ?
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#36$20 per year subscription? That seems pretty steep for what the app does.
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#37If this is as effective as you claim it to be, then I look forward to Apple including it in the operating system for free in the future. You should consider applying there and making it happen!
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#39I often manually switch to the built-in mic of my MBP [edit: while using Airpods for audio output]. To switch more quickly, I found that when you alt-click on "Sound" while in the Control Center, you can select audio devices for input and output independently of each other.
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