balanced

An output volume balance adjustment daemon for Mac OS X Tiger.

Welcome visitor

...to the download page of balanced, a daemon that keeps your system's output volume balance in place.

Thus, if you don't want to see this anymore:

it's time to give a try to balanced, a simple and lightweight balance-adjustment daemon.

Download balanced

balanced-1.0.dmg on this server

balanced-1.0.dmg on the mirror server

Why?

Bugs in Mac OS X or other running programs might break your output's balance settings. balanced listens for CoreAudio's volume change notifications and adjusts the balance if needed. This first version of balanced has no preferences file and adjusts the balance in a 50-50 manner.

How much does it cost?

The time to download it. :)

How to install balanced?

Use the package on the disk image to install balanced. You don't need to restart your mac after installation. Now you have a balanced daemon that keeps your balance correctly. You can test it by changing the balance in the system's preferences, it should be back to 50-50 in less than 1 second.

How to uninstall balanced?

Run, in a terminal:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/balanced/uninstall.sh

Enter your account password as requested.

Contact email

Feel free to contact us for any suggestions or bug reports at this email. Thanks!

2005-05-14 by Stéphane Thiell