Releases.

Every version of Audiout for Mac, newest first. Updates are included with Audiout 1 — Audiout checks for them itself, or you can download the current build any time.

  1. 1.3.1

    Current

    Audiout can now be controlled from your iPhone, and it behaves like a regular Mac app, with a Dock icon and a place in ⌘-Tab.

    iPhone

    • Your iPhone can control Audiout.

      Turn it on in Settings › Audiout Remote. The iPhone app, Audiout Remote, is coming soon to the App Store.

    • A new iPhone pairs by opening the app.

      Open Audiout Remote on the same Wi-Fi and your Mac asks whether to allow it. Both screens show the same six-digit code, and Don't Allow is the default.

    • A removed iPhone is told so.

      Remove a phone in Settings › Audiout Remote and it stops trying to reconnect.

    Mac

    • Audiout is in the Dock, ⌘-Tab and Force Quit.

      It has a menu bar of its own too, and clicking the Dock icon opens the Mixer. The menu bar icon stays.

    • The licence screen opens over the Mixer.

      A new copy of Audiout sets up first and then shows the Mixer, with Buy, the 14-day free trial and key entry on a panel above it.

    • The meter moves when only the Mac is playing.

      The Mac's own row and Main Audio now show a level when no other speaker is selected.

  2. 1.3.0

    A new Speakers tab lets you choose which speakers the Mixer lists, and a slow Bluetooth speaker now holds AirPlay back instead of playing late.

    Speakers tab

    • Speakers have a tab of their own.

      The window now has four tabs, Mixer, Scenes, Speakers and Settings, on ⌘1 to ⌘4. Each speaker gets a page with its status, its Equalizer, the scenes it belongs to and any password it has saved.

    • You choose which speakers the Mixer lists.

      Show in Mixer has three settings: “When available”, “Always” and “Hide when not in use”. A speaker that is playing shows whatever it is set to. Drag it between the two groups in the Speakers sidebar, or right-click it in the Mixer.

    • The Equalizer moved to the speaker's page.

      “Equalizer…” in the Mixer opens the Speakers tab now, not Scenes. Its icon turns green when the curve is shaped, and Reset only appears when there is something to reset.

    • Forget a speaker Audiout can't find.

      One confirmation removes its name, its settings and its place in every scene, and tells you how many scenes that is. It won't leave a scene empty, and it never touches your app routes.

    • Pairing a Bluetooth speaker is a row in the Mixer.

      “Pair Bluetooth speaker…” sits at the bottom of the Output Speakers card, where the old + menu was. Clicking the name of an unavailable speaker now searches for it for 10 seconds without starting playback.

    Bluetooth sync

    • A slow Bluetooth speaker no longer plays late next to AirPlay.

      When a Bluetooth speaker's measured delay is longer than AirPlay's start buffer, Audiout holds AirPlay and the Mac back to meet it. You used to have to raise Audio buffer by hand.

    • Bluetooth speakers stay in time over a long session.

      One customer's log showed a speaker drifting up to 300 ms late. Audiout now lines it up again when the speaker takes audio unevenly.

    • A reconnected Bluetooth speaker no longer stays silent.

      Audiout notices when macOS loses track of the speaker after it comes back, and either sets the connection up again or marks the speaker unavailable.

    • Measuring on this Mac sounds different.

      “Measure on this Mac” plays a low tone sliding down over a soft chord, with a progress bar while the microphone listens. Every other speaker goes quiet for the run, Chromecast included, and comes back after. “Align by ear” plays mallet notes instead of clicks.

    • Fewer bad measurements get saved.

      A reading that is too weak or physically impossible is refused, and you're offered “Align by ear” instead. A speaker that has just connected gets time to wake before the test plays.

    After the trial

    • An ended trial keeps playing on one speaker.

      In 1.2.0 the app locked when the 14-day trial ran out. Now everything keeps working except playing on more than one speaker at a time, scenes and Bluetooth sync. Per-app routes stay free.

    • A refunded or revoked key works the same way.

      Settings › License names the reason: refunded, payment reversed or revoked. The Mixer offers “I have a key” and “Buy Audiout”.

    Scenes

    • Scenes are a list beside an editor.

      The card grid is gone. Pick a scene in the sidebar to change its name and speakers, and “Add scene” sits at the bottom. Changes are saved as you go.

    • Editing the scene that's playing changes the speakers now.

      Before, nothing happened until you picked the scene again.

    • A muted speaker no longer comes back at 0 after a scene switch.

      It comes back unmuted, at the volume it had before you muted it.

    Settings

    • Settings has a sidebar and a License section.

      General, Appearance, Audio and License each show one live line in the sidebar, such as “Opens at login” or “Buffer 1500 ms”. Your key, “Check again” and “Buy Audiout” moved out of General into License.

    • Explanations sit behind a ? button.

      The notes under settings like Touch Bar, Audio buffer and connection volume became standard macOS help buttons.

    Passwords and codes

    • AirPlay speakers with a password play.

      A speaker set to Require Password, or an AirPlay 1 speaker with a password, used to fail with “isn't supported yet”. Its row now shows “Enter Password…”, and the password goes in your Mac's Keychain so you type it once.

    • TVs that show a code on screen can connect.

      “Enter Code…” opens four boxes for the digits on the TV. It connects as soon as you type the last one, and a pasted code fills all four.

    • Two kinds of speaker still can't connect.

      The row says why. A receiver that wants a new code on every connection shows “Needs a code every time”. A speaker set to Home members only tells you which AirPlay access setting to change in the Home app.

    Fixes

    • Equalizer changes no longer cut the sound.

      The first drag, Reset, or connecting a speaker with a saved curve used to drop AirPlay for about 2 seconds. Up to 16 speakers can each carry their own curve.

    • Muting the This Mac row mutes the Mac.

      It is the same mute as the keyboard and the Sound menu, so it can lift a mute set from either.

    • The Source column names apps sent to This Mac.

      The Mac row reads “System · Safari”, for example. Past two names it shows +N, with the full list on hover. The window is 60 points wider to fit it.

    • Cast volume and sync changes show they're on the way.

      A Cast speaker takes about 5 seconds to apply a change, so the fader knob and sync field glow until it lands.

    • The window no longer freezes when macOS's audio service is slow.

      It used to hang for as long as coreaudiod took to answer.

    • Notices close with ✕ or Escape.

      The close button is a 24-point target.

    • A settings file from a newer Audiout is set aside.

      An older copy of the app no longer overwrites it, and a save that fails is reported.

  3. 1.2.0

    Bluetooth speakers now correct their own timing while you listen, and a capture fault that pushed every speaker early has been fixed.

    Bluetooth sync

    • Bluetooth speakers keep themselves in time.

      Bluetooth clocks run slightly fast or slow, so a speaker you lined up in the morning is out by the afternoon. Audiout now listens through your Mac's microphone while music plays, compares what it sent with what arrives in the room, and corrects the speaker as the drift appears. It measures when a speaker reconnects and after a gap in playback, the two moments the timing actually moves.

    • The volume slider reaches the speaker's own knob.

      On Bluetooth speakers that support absolute volume, the fader now moves the speaker's hardware volume instead of scaling the audio. Audiout reads what the speaker advertises first, so speakers without it are left alone.

    • A reconnected speaker keeps its measurement.

      Switching a Bluetooth speaker off and on again restores the timing it was last measured at, instead of starting over.

    Timing

    • A capture fault that pushed every speaker early.

      macOS drops a cycle of system audio capture now and then, about once every 40 seconds with a third Bluetooth device on the radio. Nothing filled the gap, so each dropped cycle played everything after it 11.6 ms early on every speaker at once, and it stacked up. Audiout now measures each block against the end of the last one and patches the hole.

    Interface

    • Tabs take a click anywhere on the button.

      They used to answer only on the icon itself.

    • One click on the menu-bar icon is enough.

      Open Audiout, switch Space, and the next click was closing a window sitting out of sight on the Space you left. It looked like nothing happened and you had to click twice.

    • The connection rail draws around collapsed sections.

      Speakers you can still see stay as stops on the line, and the rail cuts where the section hides the lowest one playing.

    • Section headings in the destination menus read as headings.

      They had drifted into the same weight as the entries under them, and the Main Audio heading could be highlighted and picked as though it were a speaker.

    • The equalizer and mute marks are easier to see.

      The equalizer mark's green was too dim to read on a speaker that is playing, and too washed out to read as green in daylight. It is stronger in both, and both marks are drawn with a heavier stroke.

    • Saved speaker sets are called scenes.

      The app now uses the same word the site does.

    • Setup says what is true.

      The permission step no longer reports a failure on a normal first run, and the usage-data step no longer mentions network details it never collected.

    Reliability

    • A Wi-Fi blip no longer drops your speakers.

      Audiout holds a removal behind a grace period instead of acting on the first missed announcement.

    • Idle AirPlay speakers stay connected.

      A receiver closes a session after about 30 seconds of silence, so Audiout keeps sessions with nothing to play alive.

    • Meters work on speakers in a scene.

      An app routed to a scene left every speaker's meter dead while its audio was plainly coming out of them.

    • Any app can go to any speaker.

      Per-app routing now offers every destination Audiout can deliver to, including AirPlay 1 receivers and Bluetooth speakers. Chromecast speakers still cannot take a single app on their own.

    Installing

    • Audiout offers to move itself to your Applications folder.

      Opening it straight from the download leaves macOS restrictions in the way of the permissions Audiout needs.

    • One file to attach to a support email.

      Audiout can save a diagnostics file when something goes wrong.

    • macOS 14.4 is the minimum.

      Below it, macOS files system-audio capture under a permission category Audiout cannot ask for, so setup could not be completed at all. Every release is now checked on a real 14.4 machine.