# kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Repository: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/backgroundmusic
Language: C++
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: audio, audio-utility, macos, cpp, objective-c
Last push: 2026-06-10T08:58:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 55, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3843, "days_push": 84, "days_rel": 84, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 19252, forks 775 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:27.534578+00:00)

## What it is
Background Music is a macOS audio utility that runs as a system audio device, offering per-application volume control, automatic pausing of music players when other audio plays, and system audio recording. It is written in C++ and Objective-C and installs without a restart.

## Use cases
- automatically pause spotify when another app plays audio
- set volume per application on mac
- boost quiet apps above max volume
- record system audio on macos with quicktime
- record system audio and microphone together
- control individual app volumes on mac

## When to choose
- you're on macOS and want per-app volume control or volume boosting
- you want your music player to auto-pause during other audio
- you need to capture system audio for recordings

## When to avoid
- you're on Windows or Linux
- you need a production-stable tool (it's still in alpha)
- you need advanced audio editing or mixing features

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: audio-processing
- domain: operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: audio-utility, system-audio, volume-control, auto-pause, audio-recording, audio, macos

## Member repositories
- kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.534578+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:00:24.124732+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.534578+00:00, sha 497b73a4c39e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.