Top 15 Background Music Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

"Background Music can pause your music player app when other audio starts playing and unpause it afterwards. The idea is that when I'm listening to music and pause it to watch a video or something I always forget to unpause it afterwards. So this keeps me from wearing headphones for hours listening to nothing.
So far iTunes, Spotify, VLC, VOX, Decibel and Hermes are supported."

1. Volume Mixer

Volume Mixer Mute notifications, lower your music, & change the volume of games while staying immersed. Overall system volume, notification volume, and volume of individual apps can be adjusted from the menubar. Custom keyboard shortcuts can be created for changing the volume of the current app, of the background, and of notifications.......

2. AudioSwitcher

AudioSwitcher Simple, always ready menubar app that allows you to switch quickly between available input and output devices*You can also control the volume of input / output devices without switching from the currently selected device. Dynamically updated as devices are added / removed from the system. * It is not possible......

3. EarTrumpet

EarTrumpet Ear Trumpet - Volume Control for WindowsSupported operating systemsWindows 10CreditsDavid Golden (@GoldenTao)Rafael Rivera (@RiveraR)Ear Trumpet icon created by Artjom Kormanfrom from the Noun Project......

4. Volti

Volti Volti is an GTK+ application for controlling audio volume from system tray/notification area.......

5. Volume Icon

Volume Icon Volume Icon aims to be a lightweight volume control that sits in your systray. It is often used in conjuction with the lightweight tint2 panel/taskbar.......

6. SoundSwitch

SoundSwitch SoundSwitch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards).Normally, to switch a Playback device you need to right click the sound icon in the bottom right corner of your screen (system tray), choose "Playback devices" and then change the default playback device.Every time you want to switch.With SoundSwitch you......

7. VB-Audio CABLE

VB-Audio CABLE VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows Audio Driver working as a Virtual Audio Cable. After installing the VB-CABLE driver, a new playback device appears in the audio device list and can be set as default device. VB-CABLE can be set as the default device, just like any regular audio device. The......

8. CheVolume

CheVolume Take control of your audio devices. You want to have music on your speakers ? A good game in your headset and maybe a movie on your TV connected by HDMI? The 3 at the same time ? CheVolume is there for you and provide total control over your audio......

9. Audiomanager

Audiomanager Audio Manager is a home-screen Widget and Volume manager that allows you to get live readings of your current volume levels on your Android phone. Tap on the widget to adjust the volume levels.Some of the features in Pro include:? Over 100 widget skins available through the Android Market? Two......

10. Audio Recorder

Audio Recorder ‘Audio Recorder’ is a small utility for recording audio. It’s able to capture output from your soundcard, microphone, web browser – even Skype; basically if it plays through your speakers Audio Recorder can record it.......

11. SoundSource

SoundSource SoundSource is a tiny application for Mac OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click, and even adjust their volume settings.New in 2.5:SoundSource is now a stand-alone application, compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and requiring Mac OS X 10.5......

12. Ear Candy

Ear Candy Ear Candy is a sound level manager that nicely fades applications in and out based on their profile and window focus. What works now : - All volume adjustments are fades - Fade out music/video players on skype call - Fade to music player with focus when more than one......

13. Virtual Audio Cable

Virtual Audio Cable Ever wanted to record your speaker output? (loopback) This is for you. It makes tinkering with the audio of each individual application much easier. As well as being able to loop-back.......

14. Volwheel

Volwheel VolWheel is a little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on. It is written in Perl/Gtk2 and works both for ALSA and OSS. You can configure it quickly through its configuration interface.......

15. MP3 Normalizer

MP3 Normalizer MP3 Normalizer improves the quality of MP3 files. It amplifies too quiet audio or decreases the volume of too loud files or their parts automatically. It also smoothes sound peaks and clicks in MP3 tracks. MP3 Normalizer can make voice records more hearable with the Special processing of voice feature.Audio......