SoxSlider

• Simple UI with volume slider for Sox, made in about an hour with a lot of help from ChatGPT
• Very barebones, very shitty.
• App icon made with Bing Copilot, it's bad too.

Why?

In my case I have my Steam Deck and PS5 hooked up to a computer monitor, and that computer monitors Line Out goes to a Line In USB-C Adapter. Using sox I can listen to the audio coming in, while also hearing stuff from my Mac (like music, youtube) while playing games.

Do I need this?

No! All this app does is run this command basically:

sox -v 1.0 -V0 --multi-threaded --input-buffer 32 --buffer 128 -d -d

(sox can be installed with Homebrew: brew install sox)

All this app helps with is modifying the value for -v, the volume. (And it comes with sox bundled with it)

So why are you sharing this?

Maybe I'll need this in the future. Maybe someone has use for it too.

Known issues

• You can not select audio device. It will use whatever you defaults are in system audio settings.
• If you quit the app (⌘Q), you will keep hearing audio because sox is still running. Run killall sox in a Terminal to kill it.
• Volume doesn't adjust while sliding. This is intentional as I have to restart sox to apply the new -v parameter.
• Volume gets reset each time you run it