In keyboard settings, "Touch bar shows" is set to "extended control strip".
Mute icon doesn't show up in this mode.

i've downloaded version 1.2.0 but when selecting it in the Finder it claims to be version "1.01"

Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5

I start the app i unmutes mode, the button appears grey in the touchbar. Now i can mute the microphone via the button and it appears red. Tapping on the red button does not unmute it anymore. Unmuting via the menu items works.

Mute Me always shows in the menu bar when it first starts up.

I can tick the "Hide menu bar icon" option, and it will correctly disappear, but once I quit and restart the app the option is disabled again and the menu bar icon is present.

I may have screwed something up by trying to sync ~/Library/Containers/pixel-point.mute-me-now/Data/Library/Preferences/pixel-point.mute-me-now.plist across multiple machines.

But even after deleting ~/Library/Containers/pixel-point.mute-me-now/, ~/Library/Application Scripts/pixel-point.mute-me-now, and its temporary directory under /private/var as well as reinstalling the app, my preferences don't persist.

And I don't even see ~/Library/Containers/pixel-point.mute-me-now/Data/Library/Preferences/pixel-point.mute-me-now.plist anymore, but now see a ~/Library/Containers/pixel-point.mute-me-now/Data/Library/Preferences/pixel-point.mute-me-now.LSSharedFileList.plist which is symlinked to ../../../../../Preferences/pixel-point.mute-me-now.LSSharedFileList.plist, which does not exist.

It seems to work on other computers, but I can't find what remaining files may still be contaminating my environment. Any ideas?

Hello!

Loving this utility, and appreciate its focus to do one thing. Something I think would complement its mission quite nicely is the ability to see what the current input loudness is, so that I could better know when I should mute.

For instance, is the mic (whichever mic I have active - a headset, the built-in, etc) picking up my typing? If so, whoops, better mute. If we show how loud the input is detecting audio, I could quickly see the bar jumping a little bit with every tap, and see, "oh hey, it's picking up my little taps... mute time."

If I'm in a coffee shop, how loud is the noise around me? It's best to be muted when I'm not talking regardless if I'm in a public place, but if I can see the input loudness, I'll also know how loud the background noise is when I do talk. It would be great if I could change the audio input level, too - perhaps with a tap and hold on it.

Anyway, just thinking out loud. I am a developer so I could contribute some of these changes, too, but wanted to run this idea by to see what the pixel-point team thought.

One question I have no idea about because I've never made something for the Touch Bar before: can we have an icon that's constantly changing its picture in this spot on the Touch Bar? The audio loudness would be constantly changing, and I'd want not too much lag to display it, though perhaps we wouldn't need a full 60 fps.

Thanks for your thoughts!

What's going on with the Mute Me Now/Mute Me Now Launcher directory?

It goes very deep, this being one of the directories in it:

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The contents of the various Mute Me Now Launcher typically contains the following:

AppDelegate.h        Base.lproj           main.m
AppDelegate.m        Info.plist
Assets.xcassets      Mute Me Now Launcher

except at the deepest layer, in which it contains only AppDelegate.h and AppDelegate.m

You're the first result on google for "mac touchbar mute mic" yet this app is not maintained and doesn't work, as many other issues have pointed out in more detail. Can you display a warning to others so they don't waste their time if you don't plan on maintaining this app?

On MacOs Monterey it mutes the microphone but also mutes sound.

This touches on some of the other open tickets. I am using the release candidate for 2.0.

I have an app set up to use the non-default mic. It seemed that 2.0.0 was working correctly but today I had a conference call and I connected my bluetooth headset (for output, not input). After doing so, even though I was showing as muted, my built-in mic was actually sending out everything I said to the conference call.

As a colleague said, an app like Mute Me has to work 100% of the time or it's useless.

Is this something that is possible to address?

First of all, nice app and website.

Since the TouchBar is the primary place to use this, it would be great if we can disable the menu bar icon, to unclutter the menu bar.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Michael

Does the MUTEME code still work?

mute-me-v1.2.0

Mac Notification when Mic is Muted or Un-Muted will be a good feature to add.

Example Code: (to give an idea)
set inputVolume to input volume of (get volume settings)
if inputVolume = 0 then
set displayNotification to "Microphone is Muted"
else
set displayNotification to "Microphone is Un-Muted"
end if
display notification displayNotification

The shortcut cmd + shift + = is used in Excel to insert a new row. When mute-me is running, inserting new rows using the shortcut does not work anymore

Hi,

I tried out the MuteMe v2.0 RC1 and while it works ok with all the other apps (like ScreenFlow recorder), it does not mute GotoWebinar microphone input.

So when the GotoWebinar app is running (the downloaded application, not the Web-only UI), I can tap the mute button (on touch bar or the menu item) and the icon turns red very briefly and immediately back to original, showing that the audio channel is actually not muted (I have also verified this by talking and people on the other end still hear me). MuteMe v1.2 at the same time works ok.

So whenever Gotowebinar is running, it seems that it constantly controls that lower level setting that you're also using in v2 - effectively unmuting the channel right after I've used the MuteMe button. I have noticed that GotoWebinar also sometims changes the input audio level dynamically (like Webex etc).

The easiest way to reproduce/test this is to launch the GotoWebinar test session (no need to login, but need to download their app) and tap the mute button:

https://support.logmeininc.com/gotowebinar/help/join-a-test-session-g2w060001

Thanks,
Tanel.

Is there any way you could make it where the icon in the touchbar changes (not the color) like in the menu-bar? It's a little distracting when its on mute with a glowing red button. Great project though regardless.

I can mute, but I cannot unmute.

After mute

After unmute keeps the same

The Problem

If you manually turn down your input volume to 0 while mute-me is not muted, the muting is reversed. This is problematic because some apps like discord automatically changes your input volume, and one time it happened to me which I thought I was muted but I was not.

Proposed Solution

Instead of reversing the input volume whenever mute-me is triggered, it would be better to set the volume manually (0 when muting, 100 when unmuting).

When receiving a phone call through my Macbook, the mute button did not work for the phone call, but for a zoom.us meeting that was running simultaneously.

This app is amazing btw, exactly what I was searching for. Thanks a lot!

• System: Macbook Pro w/ MacOS HighSierra, MuteMe v1.0, Cisco WebEx Meetings v. 33.3.6.2
• Precondition: Using Cisco WebEx and connect to a phone conference or Personal Room. Unmute is installed and shortcut is defined, using a JABRA Evolve 65 headset (I am not entirely sure if reproducible with other applications recording/using Audio)
• Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the OSX Sound Preferences -> Input
2. Mute Audio input via MuteMe (button or shortcut)
3. The Audio input level jumps from mute to a very low input level and sometimes starts creeping to a higher input volume

There doesn't appear to be instructions for how to get this working beyond installing the application and running it. No matter what I tried, I could never see an icon in the Touch Bar.

I may be missing something, but this is what I tried doing:

1. Download the application here: https://muteme.pixelpoint.io.
2. Move the app to Applications folder.
3. Run the app. Notice that it is running in the Menu Bar, but not in the Touch Bar.
4. Open preferences of the app.
5. Choose "Open at login."
6. Launch an application that uses the microphone.
7. Restore OS X Touch Bar settings to:
   • Touch Bar shows: App Controls [X] Show Control Strip.
   • Customize Touch Bar... > Drag in the default set.
8. Restart Mute Me.
9. Reinstall Mute Me.

After every step, I was looking down at the TouchBar, and did not see the icon. I only saw the 4 standard buttons: expand arrow, volume slider, mute/unmute, Siri.

Should the button appear automatically the moment you launch it?

macOS Mojave 10.14.1

For version: mute-me-v1.2.0

Using touchbar icon to mute/unmute works perfectly.
When muted, the touchbar icon becomes red.
Also, the menubar icon become red.

Issue#1
However, if the mute operation is done by left click on the menu bar icon.
The menu bar icon becomes red.
But the touchbar icon does not become red.

Issue#2
And finally, if the Mic is muted externally, using some other way apart from MuteMe.
Then, the MuteMe touchbar and menubar icons do not reflect anything.

Notes
MuteMe should be able to monitor if the default Microphone input of the Mac is muted.
And, should change the touchbar and menubar icon accordingly.

Eg: MuteMyMic app in Mac App store is able to do this for its menubar icon. It does not have the touchbar icon feature.

This scenario is important for cases where the user may mute/unmute using his headphone mute buttons, or from some conferencing application.

Mute Me's indicator and switching capabilities both get confused when there is a bluetooth headset with microphone attached to the computer. Mute Me should mute and report on all microphones simultaneously, or there should be an approach to this. Connecting a bluetooth headset or headphones makes Mute Me somewhat unreliable. Thank you.

I am using a new Mac with no touch bar. I accidentally disabled the menu bar icon, and now I can't access the preferences to re-enable it.

Is there a file I can delete or something to reset these settings?

I hope many of use Mute Me with Discord, but if you mute microphone via Mute Me Discord doesn't see it. So you are appearing like this

instead of

so it will be nice if muting microphone with Mute Me also muted you on Discord.

I can't find any other way to "post" this request other than creating an Issue in github (already checked web page, no feedback or contact option there).
This app is the exact solution I was looking for to use with my MacBook Pro. It's great that you made it available for free, but I'd love to donate a small amount ($5 USD?) to show my appreciation, and I imagine those who are able would like to do the same. Can you either put this in the Mac App Store or set up some way that people can donate a little something if they find it useful?

Reproduction steps:

I've tested in Zoom's settings before a conference and found that even while MuteMe was active, My voice was still picked up while testing the input.

When we mute/unmute, it would be helpful to hear a sound to let us know that it worked, maybe 2 different sounds, one for muting and one for unmuting?

Hi, I'm on High Sierra. I have Mute Me installed in my Applications folder and running.

When I go to System Preferences > Keyboard the button I assume I would be able to incorporate Mute Me into my Touch Bar default configuration. However, when I use these steps, I do not see the button for your application. Perhaps I am not using the application correctly?

would be great if i could add muteme to my custom bar made with bettertouchtool :)

I get an error trying to access the mutify.app or the mnuteme website. Is the site down?

The menu option "on your Touch Bar" is greyed out and there is no way to put it on the touch bar again if you install it again

Do I have to decide which one to show on the Touch Bar - is it not possible to display both mute me icon and touch bar timer icon next to each other at the same time?

When I download the latest version from the link, I get this error:

Since a few days the following error message appears when confirming the mute button in the touch bar:
Sorry, but your audio device (Squirrels Audio (64)) can't be muted due to drivers/hardware reasons.

However, after confirming the message, the microphone is muted, as expected. Nevertheless, this message permanently disturbs the simple use of Mutify.

Such a configuration is made in the Keyboard settings screen.

Is it possible to show this icon in this configuration too?

If it's impossible, the app should at least warn the user about it.

I love this utility but I miss just one feature.
When we mute, the volume goes to 0 (which is fine), but when we unmute the input volume is always set to 100 and not the previous level. Maybe it is not an issue when we use muteme for skype or conference calls, but if you are recording something like podcast it is not enough, because you want to keep balance between gain and input volume of your mic.

So it would be great to have additional preference like "unmute volume". It could be 100 by default so it would behave exatcly the same as it does now.
Another aproach could be something like "remember previous volume level on unmute".

I have a 2018 macbook pro running Mac OS Mojave.

When I plug my headset to the mac having the icon in the touch bar showing the mic as muted, the headset mic connects as un-muted but the icon in the touch bar does not reflect the status, it remains in red as if the mic were muted.

It happened to me a couple of times that I joined calls thinking that I was muted but it was not the case.

This is a pretty annoying behavior, the icon should at least show as unmuted when a new output device is connected. Other way the state of the icon in the touch bar becomes unreliable.

Thanks!!

I'm running Mojave beta and the Mute Me app Touch Bar icon does not change to red when you are muted.
The button works, but the color doesn't toggle anymore.

I'd love to buy the Mutify app as this open source version doesn't work properly with all apps, but the mutify.app webpage doesn't work - I get 522 Connection timed out all the time.