Soundsource 3: Easy-To-Access macOS Audio Controls
Macworld|April 2017

This simple menu and palette provide nearly all sound settings in one place.

Glenn Fleishman
Soundsource 3: Easy-To-Access macOS Audio Controls

Shaving off annoyances in macOS is always worth a few bucks, and if you manipulate audio sources and volumes frequently, it should be worth $10. Rogue Amoeba’s Sound Source 3 (go.macworld. com/ss3) provides splayed-out, easy access to the settings divvied up in the Sound system preference pane, and only partly available through the system audio menu item.

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