instal the new version for apple FastStone Capture 10.4

Select the 'Soundflower (2ch)' as your default system wide audio output. Next you go to your system’s preferences and open the audio settings. I set the buffer size to 2048 as well, don’t know if its important but bigger is better as usual.

Next look into your menu bar for the sound flower icon and set the 'Soundflower (2ch)'(for dolby surround select the '16ch') to 'Built-in Output' as shown below. There are a few steps to get it up and running.Īt first restart your iMac after installing soundflower. In order to fix this I had to install soundflower. If you use the digital optical audio output of your iMac you cannot access the system output volume anymore with your keyboard shortcuts or apple remote. If you plug in the 3,5mm jack your system audio output in OS X switches automatically to digital out. Beware of 2,5mm Toslink jacks since they are called 'mini Toslink' as well. It was quite easy to buy a Toslink cable with 3,5mm jack on one side and a standard Toslink jack on the other side. Ok the next step was to use the optical output from the iMac in order to improve the audio quality. Alac plays natively on most Apple devices. flac files concurrent with their mp3 files in my iTunes library. Now that all files are encoded in alac I didn’t have to convert the files anymore for the iPhone thus not having all. The only thing you have to do is setting the default output of the converter to 'Apple MPEG-4 Audio (Apple Lossless)' it pops up if you just select 'Apple MPEG-4 Audio' as shown below.ĭon’t add any other formats here or every input file will be converted to all the formats shown in that list. Downloading Max 2 was easy, as well as converting the.

Next I found out that ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) went open source. Not all of the features improved the subjectively received audio quality but some really helped. It is pretty simple to install and offers a lot of settings to play with. Next I found Hear from JoeSoft which replaced the awkward equalizer in iTunes. Later I found fluke which made life a bit easier, since the annoying import process was disposed. If you are interested in how to achieve this, read this post. flac files in iTunes I got the maximum audio quality out of my iMac.

Instal the new version for apple FastStone Capture 10.4