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

#31

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?

I believe it’s because macOS uses a worse audio codec: https://gist.github.com/dvf/3771e58085568559c429d05ccc339219

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

#32
This has been one of my fixations. That it‘s still an issue 20 years after Bluetooth audio has become a thing and 10 since telephony has become good quality is crazy to me.

It 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.

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

#33

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

#39

I 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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