SoundSource + BetterDisplay + MediaMate

[avegancafe]

This is probably too many things to make it anyone problem, but I thiiink I tracked the issue down to the specific SoundSource support by BetterDisplay. Basically I'm trying to use MediaMate with BetterDisplay, but I also have SoundSource installed. When I disconnect my MacBook from my monitor, keyboard, and DAC and use the built-in display and keyboard, MediaMate works fine, but if I plug in my monitor, keyboard, and DAC, Media Mate stops working.

This is a long chain of potential failure points, but I am able to use MediaMate with my built-in speakers, but when SoundSource's "Super Volume Keys" setting is in use (specifically, when controlling the volume output to my DAC), BetterDisplay no longer captures those volume change events. This could totally be an issue with SoundSource too, but I don't really know how the macOS popup animation is really controlled, if it's possible to monitor SoundSource's super volume key events or if they just implemented their own thing that hijacks everything.

Either way, thanks for a great app!

[waydabber]

If SoundSource captures and handles the native volume keys and then does not reproduce the event so it can bubble forth for other apps then I don't think BetterDisplay can capture it. 😞

[avegancafe]

Okay sounds good! I'll open a ticket with them, I'd thought maybe you all might be familiar with it