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The audio tag is used for questions involving speakers, microphones, connections between them and computers, and applications for dealing with it.

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Does my sound card support hardware volume control?

Under linux I would use: cat /proc/asound/Audio/usbmixer And I would get a response like: USB Mixer: usb_id=0x262a10e1, ctrlif=1, ctlerr=0 Card: HiFimeDIY Audio SA9023 USB Audio at usb-musb-hdrc.1. …
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Controlling audio output's sample/bit rate on OSX from command prompt

Is there a way to limit the output format of a soundcard on OSX, apart from Audio MIDI Setup? … I have noticed that OSX has a bad habit of resampling audio while it is not needed at all (say the output from Spotify or Tidal). …
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Controlling audio output's sample/bit rate on OSX from command prompt

: set desiredRate to "44100.0 Hz" set desiredDepth to "2ch-16bit Integer" tell application "Audio MIDI Setup" to activate tell application "System Events" tell application process "Audio MIDI Setup … " if not (window "Audio Devices" exists) then click menu item "Show Audio Devices" of menu "Window" of menu bar item "Window" of menu bar 1 end if tell group 1 of tab …
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Does my sound card support hardware volume control?

The system_profiler data type corresponding to audio device information is SPAudioDataType, so you can run: system_profiler SPAudioDataType But this won't yield much information about hardware volume … control, you will see one or more IOAudioLevelControl entries under your audio device's entry. …
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