macOS 15 Sequoia Beta Fun

[armwt]

Pretty random, but I've been chasing an issue that I realized MAY be a Sequoia issue. If anyone has their Mac connected to an airplay audio system, can you try enabling/disabling the equalizer and tell me if it does anything? I added a WiiM to my audio mix about the same time that I installed the beta, and I've been blaming the WiiM for the EQ doing nothing but realized it might just be the Beta itself.

EQ in the WiiM app itself works perfectly, but my EQ settings in the Music app are ignored, no matter what else I try.

 

[Bonusround]

Are you referring to the EQ in Music.app? I don’t think that works with Airplay 2 destinations at all, whether on Sequoia, Sonoma, or otherwise.

NB: tried against HomePods and a WiiM from a Sonoma MBP and Music’s EQ has no effect.

 

[armwt]

Appreciate that Bonusround. I could have sworn that it was working previously, but like I said - changed up my system a bit at the same time that I upgraded to the beta. FWIW, I'm also not seeing any difference at all when listening via AirPods, or a cheap USB-C <> RCA adapter.

 

[ant1pathy]

Appreciate that Bonusround. I could have sworn that it was working previously, but like I said - changed up my system a bit at the same time that I upgraded to the beta. FWIW, I'm also not seeing any difference at all when listening via AirPods, or a cheap USB-C <> RCA adapter.

I would expect not. EQ would (should?) be applied in software on a per-transducer basis. If you want to permanently EQ the song itself, better to set that at the file level rather than metadata on top (which should be more like "set not EQ when going to X destination, EQ 1 when going to Y, EQ 2 when going to Z..." kind of thing).

 

[belazeebub]

FWIW, Rogue Amoeba's excellent SoundSource utility allows one to set 10-band EQ settings on a per-device and per-app level. Well worth the investment.

 

[Bonusround]

Appreciate that Bonusround. I could have sworn that it was working previously, but like I said - changed up my system a bit at the same time that I upgraded to the beta. FWIW, I'm also not seeing any difference at all when listening via AirPods, or a cheap USB-C <> RCA adapter.

I think there’s some bugginess in Music. While quickly testing I could hear the EQ working on audio output over the MBP’s internal speakers, then I switched to testing Airplay, and upon returning to internal speakers the EQ had no effect.

 

[dspariI]

Pretty random, but I've been chasing an issue that I realized MAY be a Sequoia issue. If anyone has their Mac connected to an airplay audio system, can you try enabling/disabling the equalizer and tell me if it does anything? I added a WiiM to my audio mix about the same time that I installed the beta, and I've been blaming the WiiM for the EQ doing nothing but realized it might just be the Beta itself.

EQ in the WiiM app itself works perfectly, but my EQ settings in the Music app are ignored, no matter what else I try.

I think this is a bug in Music that's probably not related to the beta. I have a similar non-beta problem with Bluetooth headphones where the EQ window stops having an effect until Music is restarted.

 

[9600man]

I installed the public beta today. I knew there was Metal 3 updates for games.

What was surprising I saw slightly faster blender cycles render performance. 5.5% gain for barbershop; 10% gain in classroom, on my M2 Max which doesn’t have ray trace hardware.

I wonder if there’s more performance gains for M3 Pro/Max users which can access hardware ray trace.