Hi,
it would be great if you could add a feature:
When SoundflowerBed is running, the soundflower icon is displayed in the menubar. Instead of the soundflower icon the audio volume in dezibels of a audio device should be displayed. It would be great if you could choose the audio device volume that would be displayed. For example show the internal audio device volume in dezibel and/or value.
In my case I use the Apogee Duet and Soundflower. The OSX volume control (volume.menuextra) is very inaccurate and it is hard to set the same level for audio monitoring. You always have to start Audio Midi Setup to see the accurate values.

Thanks!

All Soundflower driver is missing after upgrade to OS X 10.11 beta 1

Soundflower will not work at all on any my computers (iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacPro)

Otherwise the will be trouble installing Soundflower in the brave new gatekeeper world.

This has been a problem for the past few days after the upgrade. Any help?

2.02b kext, OS X 10.10.5

if I create a Multi-Output device as described in the README (Built-In + 2ch Soundflower) recording via Soundflower to e.g. Quicktime works as advertised

however routing via a 3rd party audio device and Soundflower seems to be a problem.

1. Audio is playing (from iTunes or wherever) via USB audio device (here, Focusrite Saffire 6)
2. Create Multi-Output Device; Saffire 6USB is auto-selected. Sound stops.
3. Select Built-In output. Sound now plays through BOTH Saffire and built-in speakers. Keyboard mute button on Mac is disabled; only means of controlling built-in volume is via Multi-Output Device submenu.
4. Select Soundflower (2ch). Audio now available via Soundflower in Logic, Quicktime, etc
5. De-select Built-in Output. No audio from Saffire or Soundflower.
6. Re-select Built-in Output. All is well, &c.

obviously this can be worked around but it would be helpful to figure out if the issue lies with Soundflower, the Multi-Output Device, Focusrite or elsewhere. I suspect this may well be an issue with the Saffire drivers, but I don't have another audio interface to test further with so would be useful to know if this can be replicated on another system.

Reported by [email protected], May 19, 2008
This from Joachim Bengtsson's notes accompanying the Volumes control patch
(which was merged into version 1.3):

It could be desirable to send volume change requests as
NSDistributedNotifications so that applications using Soundflower could do
something useful with them (e.g. Airfoil using them to set the volume on
the remote host, instead of the local host).

Reported by eric.morand, Nov 09, 2009

Soundflowerbed is not localization-friendly - it can't be localized because the code never calls NSLocalizedString to retrieve potential localized versions of the strings used in the program.
Soundflowerbed doesn't display accented characters properly : on a french system, create a new aggregate device on "Audio MIDI configuration" utility and look at how it looks on Soundflowerbed menu.
I've added international and localization support to Soundflowerbed to fix
those two problems - it leads to very minor (and trivial) changes in the
code, by the way. I'm not a contributor, let me know if you have interest for
this.

I am assigning my DisplayPort output to Soundflower (2ch) via Soundflowerbed every time OSX starts, however, I was wondering if there is any way to change that permanently like setting it as a 'default' for (2ch)?

Otherwise, perhaps a command line I can run to simplify this process?

Thanks in advance

I simple cannot find where it is located.

I'm using Soundflower combined with Soundcast to cast audio to my Chromecast Audio. (MBP OS X El Capitan 10.11.4)
Since a while (not sure how long) it stopped working. I've tried re-installing Soundflower and Soundcast, but no luck: When I play audio and select Soundflower 2ch as output, no sound comes through my speakers connected to the CC Audio.
But I just noticed a strange thing: When starting the Soundcast app, both input and output are set to Soundflower audio device. I tried setting 'input' back to my Built-in microphone, and suddenly the sounds that my microphone records are immediately played through my speakers.
All the while I'm playing music that should be cast, but this doesn't arrive at my speakers.
Anyone has an idea what might cause this?
Using Chrome browser and casting audio (e.g. youtube Tab to the CC Audio) works flawlessly..
Thanks in advance :)

Soundflower built successfully on Yosemite (using "cd Tools; ./build.rb dep") and I can see the kext file at ./Build/InstallerRoot/System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext, but I don't see it in /System/Library/Extensions/.

(And I don't see Soundflower in Inputs/Outputs in the Sound Settings.)

Should I manually run load.rb in Tools/, or is it something else? I have also read about some key signing on Yosemite -- do I need to do something special for that?

I am using the latest code at b9d3c5c.

Thanks!

Hi, I cannot seem to remove Soundflower. These are the steps I've been through -

1. Download Soundflower-1.6.6b.dmg
2. Run uninstaller script
3. Enter password
4. Reboot
5. Launched System Preferences/Sound to find it still there

I have done this several times. I've checked with and without a reboot. I've run the installer again to make sure the version I am uninstalling is up to date. I've checked inside System/Library/Extensions and the file has been removed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hey there,

I ran the uninstall script bundled with Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg, but soundflower devices were still listed in the option+click audio listing. The uninstall script does not unload the kernel extension. This can be done using the following line from the terminal:

sudo kextunload -b com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower

Please add to the uninstall script if deemed useful.

Thanks!

Is there a command line parameter to force a particular sound device? I have a workstation with a shared HDMI device and when switching between devices, Soundflower resets to an undesired device.

I found an old script on Google Code which monitors for the HDMI device change event in /var/log/system.log and from what I can read, it will work, but the script is written very poorly and I'd like to update it.

Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me figure out how the writer of the script was able to programatically switch the soundflower's device to HDMI...

Here's my code so far (untested until I can prove we can force the device properly):
https://gist.github.com/tresf/48b4abe5c551edeadf2b

Help or a pointer into the source which processes this param is appreciated. I'm not afraid to fire up XCode too if needed. Thanks in advance!

-@tresf

Up until I updated to OSX 10.10 audio was good. Now I get crackling/distorted sound when using Soundflower.
Any ideas? I am using latest stable version provided on Google code. (seems to be outdated)
Does anyone else get the same problem with latest GIT version?

If it helps: I'm using Macbook Pro Retina (2013)

Reported by IMGroxx, May 12, 2009

Largely as it sounds. OSX is often too quiet, and with no way of amplifying applications (recently, a
clip on Hulu), is sometimes un-usably so. And, as Detour is no longer supported at all, that makes
this one of the extreme few apps that is even remotely capable of something like this.

Hi,
I'd like to know if there is a way to control Soundflowerbed via AppleScript. I'm currently using ControlPlane to take actions in my system (10.8.3) and the goal is to make the sound change to my HDMI display "automatically".
So, I've created the following steps:

1. ControlPlane detects an external HDMI display (done)
2. ControlPlane runs an AppleScript to select Soundflower (2ch) in System Preferences sound output (done)
3. ControlPlane runs an AppleScript to select HDMI in the Soundflowerbed (to do)

So, I hope my request is clear enough. I'm looking for a way to implement step 3

TIA,

L.

Not quite.

Reported by percontation, Oct 18, 2009

Instead of just checking for "Soundflower (2ch)" and "Soundflower (16ch)",
soundflowerbed should support custom soundflower configurations (made by
editing the kext plist).

I might try to tackle this myself in about a week. I'll post the results here.

Hi,

I downloaded and installed Soundflower (from Rogue Amoeba) and then restarted my computer, but it is not working. When I click on "Soundflowerbed" in applications, a flower symbol appears on the menu bar above. When I click on it a drop down menu appears with greyed out text saying "Soundflower Is Not Installed!!". I then went to my sound preferences and Soundflower was not in the output and input sections. I also went to Audio MIDI Setup and it wasn't there either. I am using OSX 10.9.5.

Also when I try to uninstall it a message appears saying, "You can't open the application "Unistall Soundflower" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported"

I would appreciate any help at all.

Thanks

I followed the given recipe, created aggregate audio device containing built-in out and Soundflower 2ch, made it default and tried to capture audio with QuickTime from Soundflower 2ch input. And I'd got nothing captured.

When I've switched output to Soundflower 2ch only. It became captured but not playing to built-in output.

Version of Soundflower 2.0b2 and Mac OS is 10.11.

Reported @ http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/issues/detail?id=141

Hi there,

I went through pretty much the entire internet to find a solution how to enable volume controls form keyboard to control volume of DisplayPort connected monitor (or HDMI for that matter). I'm very enlighted that the volume control works with soundflower 2.02b.

But I get no Audio! It's simply mute. I also tried the multi output midi setting. Still nothing.

When i select internal audio device, I get sound on the Mac Mini internal speaker.
When I select the DisplayPort audio device, I get the sound on the speakers of my Samsung monitor (but no audio volume control).
When I select soundflower (2ch) it's mute.

Anyone has had that issue with .5 release of El Capitan? Seems weird that it works for almost everyone around this forum and elsewhere.

thanks
Roe

I used the uninstall script and it resulted in "Done!" But I can't remove this icon from my app icon list (launchpad). How do i remove this entire product? A search dosen't find it in finder. I even tried installing and uninstalling again. Installing again makes the icon active and removes the question mark, uninstalling leave the icon and adds a question mark.

Reported by [email protected], Aug 02, 2009

It would be nice if there was built-in sample-rate conversion in the case when the output device doesn't support the sample-rate that the application uses. It might be possible to use AUConverter for this.

SoundFlower is great so far, except it has some audio glitches. I'm trying to use it with Djay Pro for Mac and then using the AU Lab software as my eq in hopes of getting rid of my old eq board. It works fantastic, except for every once and a while the audio will either shudder, or stop for a split second and start again. I'm fairly certain this is an issue with sound flower, because my CPU usage is next to nothing while I'm doing all this (1-10%). AU Lab I don't think is the problem either. If you could make it so it works flawlessly, that would be fantastic. Even if it becomes a resource hog!

I'm running OSX El Capitan 10.11.2 with a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 processor on a retina macbook pro.

Thanks,
Will

Soundflower won't run under the newest OS X:

Hristos-MacBook-Pro:~ Hristo$ sudo kextutil /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
Diagnostics for /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext:
Code Signing Failure: not code signed
Untrusted kexts are not allowed
ERROR: invalid signature for com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower, will not load

Is there a way we can get around this?

I saw a lot of requests about this throughout other bugs so I would like to get a main bug to track this.

As many others I use a customized version of Info.plist where I have several devices configured. After El Captain I can't force the OS to load the kernel extension unsigned.

So, how can I achieve this level of customization with Soundflower? Is there a way to make the driver read the Info.plist from other place that is not its bundle?

I can't compile source code and 1.6.7 seems to be ready for prime time. Could someone please compile it for me?
Google code only has 1.6.6b. and the file from the Rogue Amobea freebies page only downloads the source code from the GitHub releases page.

Thanks.

(I'm on 10.9 so the kext signing hurdle wont be an issue.)

There's a dozen duplicates of this issue on Google code:

https://code.google.com/p/soundflower/issues/detail?id=141

Some going back to 2010.

It seems like a pretty easy fix but the response has been that it's the OS's responsibility. I don't really see how that's the case. Soundflower would only benefit from gracefully handling an output being lost momentarily and then returning. And all it needs to do is keep a reference to the previous output, in the event that it is lost, and in the event that output returns (via polling or observing, I'm not familiar with the system APIs available) switch back to it.

i set up an system wide equalizer with soundflower. it stopped working a while ago, au lab does not show input signals when sending system output to soundflower (2ch).

i must have messed up my config, i just don't know where to look.

hi

i'm having problems getting soundflowerbed to work in yosemite. all i get when i click on the toolbar flower icon is a constant spinning ball

clicking on the icon in the dock gives me the option of opening sfb, despite it already opening on system startup. opening via the dock now gives a second flower icon (in grey), mid-way along the toolbar

would really appreciate some help with this, as i am trying to manage 2 separate interfaces, and the system output

cheers

Ever since a few days ago when I upgraded to OS X El Captain, I've been having problems trying to run SoundFlower. It keeps claiming the program is "not installed!" despite me attempting to download and install it twice by now.

Reported by sigmaris, Jan 23, 2009

This is a request for enhancement.

Is it possible to have Soundflower create virtual SPDIF input and output devices, which appear to applications as the same as the Mac's built-in digital optical output, and allow Dolby Digital audio to be routed between applications?

I would like to be able to send Dolby Digital output from Apple DVD player to another application which would be able to decode it to 5.1 channel output. Currently DVD player will only output 5.1 audio through the digital output, i.e. if you attach a 5.1 USB soundcard it will only output a stereo downmix even though 5.1 channels are available.

I am using the 2ch output. After boot up, the right channel is always silent. In Audio MIDI Setup, under the output tap, the volume of the channel 2 is max (same as the left channel). It is not muted. I need to slide the volume bar to left then right to reset the volume. The bug does not happen after sleeping and waking up. I should be using 1.6.6b but not 100% sure. The volume bar in Hosting AU also showed the right channel being silent.

Soundflower-1.6.6b
Yosemite
10.10.5 (14F27)

What's the difference between the two? Lets say I'm streaming my desktop (OS X) that's playing some music over OBS, why would I choose one vs. the other?

Problem - cannot install 1.6.5 in OS X 10.7.

Note: a search of the error message led me to the tip to disable gatekeeper, which is apparently a 10.8 feature which shipped in 10.7. However, this did not solve the problem, because gatekeeper was not enabled; i.e. "spctl --status" returned "assessments disabled". Explicitly disabling it with "sudo spctl --master-disable" had no effect.

Also note that running the uninstaller script did not help either.

WORKAROUND: The 1.6.4 installer does install, despite the invalid certificate warning.

*** Steps to reproduce: ***

1. Using OS X version 10.7.4
2. Lunch installer
3. Click yes/ok/continue/Agree etc.,
4. When prompted, enter your password.
5. Installation begins and quickly fails with a generic OS error that there's something wrong with the installer.
6. Attempt to run the installer again
7. Notice the error message, something like: "The cannot be installed. You should unmount & delete the disk image."
8. Click on the (?) help icon in the message box
9. Notice the following message:

"The app’s authorization has been revoked. Although this app was signed by an identified developer, the certificate for the app has been revoked. There may be a problem with it. The app cannot be opened. You should check with the Mac App Store to see if there is an updated version of this app, or check with the software developer."

I updated my mac to OS X Yosemite.
Afterwards when starting Soundflower i noticed the in-active icon kept showing up
when moving over the icon.
Looking in the Activity Monitor i noticed the process was marked as not responding and had to kill it.

I decided to remove and reinstall the latest version (Soundflower-1.6.6b.dmg).
After restarting i got the same result as above.

I noticed other people having trouble when running it on the latest Mac OS X.
Maybe it's related to #19
But at least they get it running.
Any suggestions or other ways i can help?

I need to see SoundFlower only when I need to adjust some configuration (very rarely). There should be an option to make it disappear from the menu bar (or show some actual information) and then bring the options back by opening the app from the Applications folder.

I've build it in deploy mode after installation fails, imgs:

It would be great if by holding down Command+Left Drag we could move the Soundflowerbed icon in the menu bar (much like other menu bar icons).

See https://github.com/tap/Soundflower/issues/18 for the complete thread with @paleozogt. It's pretty weird that there would be this inconsistency...

I had a code signing on kext in Yosemite. But kextload is failed.
It was version2 codesign. "codesign --verify" is true.
But kextload is failed. Why not load in Yosemite?

Here is my log.

I have checked with "codesign -dvvv ./myKext.kext" And It's all right.

"codesign -dvvv ./myKext.kext" returned following:

Executable=/Path/to/myKext
Identifier=com.myKext.kext.Firewall
Format=bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20100 size=317 flags=0x0(none) hashes=9+3 location=embedded
Hash type=sha1 size=20
CDHash=d0ff68bd8b49c650f45349c2d1570d45a8c1f148
Signature size=8544
Authority=Developer ID Application: My Kext Co., Ltd. (R2PBZJ465V)
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Timestamp=2014. 10. 31. 오전 11:09:35
Info.plist entries=18
TeamIdentifier=not set
Sealed Resources version=2 rules=12 files=1
Internal requirements count=1 size=188

It shows that the version 2.
But "sudo kextload ./myKext.kext" is returned following:

/Path/to/myKext.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable
(reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try
kextutil(8).

"cat /var/log/system.log" return following:

com.apple.kextd[19]: ERROR: invalid signature for
com.myKext.kext.Firewall, will not load

"sudo kextutil -l ./myKext.kext" return following:

Diagnostics for ./myKext.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
ERROR: invalid signature for com.myKext.kext.Firewall, will not load

Why are invalid signature?!!
I have signed with version2 codesign in Yosemite.
What I did wrong sign? Somebody teach me please.

Please add support for dark mode for soundflowerbed.

This is how it looks without the support:

I've got the following issues with Soundflower and Yosemite, on a 2012 Mac Mini:

• If Soundflower is running Mac won't go in sleep mode. Screen Saver won't start either.
• After Mac wakes up from sleep Soundflower process often closes (crashes?). When it doesn't crash the audio channel switches automatically from HDMI to none.

It worked perfectly on Mavericks and previous OS X versions.

P.S. I only use it to being able to manage monitor volume from keyboard, as OS X doesn't able to do it on an HDMI signal. :(

I cant build this in Deployment or Development mode

/build.rb Deployment
  Building the new Soundflower.kext with Xcode
  Building the new Soundflowerbed.app with Xcode
    BUILD FAILED
  Done.

Any ideas? Is there an already compiled installer you can just download someplace?

Hi...new to all this, but with El Capitan breaking Soundflower, I am here.
I uninstalled the old version and rebooted.
downloaded 2.02b2 package and install seemed to go smoothly. Screen said it installed successfully.
However, the soundflower icon is not in application folder as expected per the "read me".
The 2ch & 64 ch options appear in the sound preferences, but clicking them mutes the sound.
Any ideas?
thanks
Rick

I'm running a fairly new Macbook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.3.

I have purchased RogueAmoeba's Audio Hijack and successfully recorded an mp3 from a ustream of a conference. How I want to create a transcript. I found instructions on the web http://telestreamblog.telestream.net/2013/12/using-dictation-to-turn-recorded-audio-to-text-2/ and followed them, but it's not working.

I have the output device in Audio Hijack set to Sunflower2ch and the input to Dictation set to Sunflower2ch, but, when I launch iTunes to play the mp3, I don't get any dictation in TextEdit.

Audio Hijacks animation shows that the audio is running. Dictation's animation shows that it's receiving the audio feed. But, as soon as I launch TextEdit and start dictation, the animation in Dictation stops. If I kill dictation in TextEdit, Dictation's animation starts moving again, indicating that it's receiving audio from Audio Hijack. Substituting Microsoft Word results in the exact same behavior. So does running it in Pages.

I have used both iTunes and Quicktime Player as the input device. Both work exactly the same. As soon as I start dictation in the recording app (TextEdit, Pages or Word), the animation in Dictation goes dead, and no text is written to the file.

If I switch to the internal microphone, dictation works as expected.

What might I be doing wrong?