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Applications

The lower portion of SoundSource’s main window provides controls for audio playing in applications running on your Mac.

This area lists those applications that have been set as favorites, as well as any other apps which are actively producing audio. Applications that played audio within the last 60 seconds are also temporarily included in this list.

Application-Level Audio Controls

The basic controls displayed for each app include the level meter, as well as volume control (including mute toggle), plus the Magic Boost effect. You can also redirect audio from the default output, enabling an application to play audio through a particular output.

By expanding the settings for an application, you can also apply more audio effects to that app’s audio, and access other controls.

Each application gets two built-in effects added automatically: the Volume Overdrive and 10-Band EQ. The default settings make no change to audio, but you can quickly adjust these effects to increase the volume of that app or apply equalization. Beyond these two, the Add Effect pop up menu will provide other built-in effects as well as third-party Audio Unit plugins.

Details on audio effects are available on the Effects Overview page.

Favorites

In addition to showing applications which are actively playing audio, as well as those which recently did, you can add your favorite apps to the Applications list. Applications added to the favorites list will be kept above other active applications. By default, they are listed in the order they’ve been added, but you can click and drag the app name to reorder your list as you’d like.

When you first run SoundSource, several common audio-playing apps are added as favorites. If you find an app listed you don’t want, remove it by clicking the star icon next to its name and level meter.

You can also add applications as favorites area using the Add Favorite menu, which will open a file browser to go through your Applications folder. However, if applications are already producing audio, you can click the star next to the application’s name to keep it in the Applications list.