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Music & Audio
Music & Audio

Background Music

  • Description: Free open-source app for per-app volume control; lets you set different volume levels for individual apps independently of system volume.
  • Price: Free / Open Source

Cog

  • Description: Free and open-source music player for local libraries supporting AAC, MP3, FLAC, ALAC, Ogg, and more; includes playlists, ratings, and mini player.
  • Price: Free / Open Source

I Replaced Apple Music with Yate, Swinsian, Navidrome, and an iPod Classic

  • Description: Comprehensive workflow post on abandoning Apple Music and rebuilding a local 36,000-track music library using Yate (tagging), Swinsian (playback), and Navidrome (streaming server).
  • Price: Yate — Free; Swinsian — Paid $34.95; Navidrome — Free
  • Workflow Tips: Yes — complete step-by-step migration workflow from Apple Music to a local library stack.

Just Press Record

  • Description: Audio recording and transcription app for Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch; one-time purchase used for nine years.
  • Price: Paid (one-time)

Liqoria

  • Description: Universal music controller living in the Dock that unifies Apple Music, Spotify, browsers, and other sources with animated artwork, real FFT waveform visualization, and native Apple design.
  • Price: Paid

MusicBox

  • Description: Read-it-later app for music — saves tracks and albums for listening later across Apple Music and Spotify.
  • Price: Paid

MusicHarbor

  • Description: Tracks followed artists and alerts you to new album and single releases; fills the gap left by Apple Music's poor new release notifications.
  • Price: Paid

Noizio

  • Description: Background ambient sound app with nature sounds and white noise for focus; free version with five sounds, paid for more.
  • Price: Freemium

Sleeve

  • Description: Heads-up display music player for Spotify, Apple Music, and Doppler; extremely customizable overlay with album art.
  • Price: Paid

SoundSource

  • Description: Granular per-app and per-device audio routing and volume control from Rogue Amoeba; goes far beyond macOS defaults.
  • Price: Paid

Swinsian

  • Description: Clean, full-featured local music player and library manager; reviewed as the antidote to Apple Music's feature bloat.
  • Price: Paid — $34.95