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I would love to be able to normalize the volume across all my audio and video files playing on iTunes on my iMac. Are you working on (or considering working on) an OSX version of Breakaway Audio Enhancer?
Still hoping for an OSX version but have not seen any hints to indicate that it will become a reality any time soon. I used BAE 24 /7 for five years with my Music server and Mac Mini by either running Windows 7 in bootcamp or Parallels. On my Mac Mini 2011 I use Parallels and recently upgraded to Parallells 10 and Yosemite. I run itunes on the Mac and playback through BAE running Windows 7 via Airplay and Airfoil Speakers. If you are interested in more info please reply. While that solves the problem here at home I am still looking for a way to get BAE running in my car without having to install a complete PC. It amazes me that BAE or some other workable form of Audio compression enhancer is not available for car sound systems.
There actually was a full port of the audio back-end done for OSX, in 5.1 surround, but the developer that was porting it came onto some major health problems quite a few years ago, and work could not be continued on it at the time.
I know that OSX has always been great for sales, and Volume Logic (the audio processing previous to Breakaway) was at one point the most popular audio processing for OSX. That was when it only worked in certain players, like iTunes. Now it's possible to do audio processing on the whole system's audio at once in OSX, so if there is a new version eventually, it'll be much more awesome experience on OSX than previously. Windows now has built-in audio processing support for soundcards too. 😉
I am still using Volume Logic through Audio Hijack Pro on Yosemite; it's slightly inconvenient, but actually expands the original functionality of the plug-in by allowing you to process any app's audio with it. If you still have an old installation of Volume Logic and the old version of Audio Hijack Pro (the new version doesn't support the iTea plug-in) you can use them to tide yourself through…
That being said, I'm one of the hordes of Mac users who have been waiting for a version of Breakaway that we can use for years! If you build it, we will come!
No offense to Leif, but I am going to make a reasonable assumption that this is probably on the back burner. 🙂
Actually… this is one thing that has changed since the backend was ported. PowerPC doesn't really matter anymore. So the TON of Intel architecture-specific optimizations wouldn't have to be ported. The GUI would be very easy to port, since the only thing it relies on in Windows now is "BLIT" to display the software-rendered (but hardware-accelerated) GUI to the screen. The current Breakaway software actually uses Windows Common Forms that are hooked to basically hack pretty graphics and altered controllability into it. It's actually VERY impressive how it's working now, but the new method is extremely portable on the Intel platform. The reset of the port would mainly be adding new soundcard code, new file-related code, new hardware detection code for copy protection, new networking code, new touch-screen related code, new font code, and probably a dozen other things I'm not thinking of right now on account of how tired I am right now. It's still a LOT of work to do it, but it's less than it was before because Leif spent over a year moving everything into "NewFramework" (his unified code platform), and then nearly 2 years working on other things for it which would have been required to do to release Breakaway anyway.
But it would also not really be a port, but just different builds of NewFramework. So… until you hear about a Telos-related processor from Leif running on Linux… I wouldn't hold your breath. 🙁
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