Feature: Save different profiles per device, optionally when that device connects, switch to a preferred profile.

[nodeful]

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Description:
Requested if #171 #165 #67

Most people will have different settings depending on the audio device they are currently using.
Would be awesome for eqMac to automatically switch to the preferred profile.

User flow & interface:
A couple of questions to consider:

• Which "effects"/settings would be saved for each profile? (Volume, Balance, EQ) and what about future effects?
• How would the UI looks like? eqMac currently has quite compact UI, would have to hide all of this profile setting menu behind modals, unless the to be expanded.

[Intenditore]

Which "effects"/settings would be saved for each profile?

I think all of them but the volume, it's level must not be treated as a part of preset so user would have no need to change it every time to his linking. Standard system-like behaviour it needed. This also will fix #248

How would the UI looks like?

I think current one if lovely. A drop-out with devices (which is there but doesn't work as a menu) will be handy enough.

But let me note one more interface suggestion - it would be much better if the interface will be a kind of fly-out menu dropping out of the icon, iStats Menu style. Also this will solve the confusion with the X button which quits the app (another dedicated button for killing the process would be needed than though).
Taking different approach, you could save the current UI as a window, but adding a fast preset/device switching to icon drop-out menu.

Thank you for your work once again! Waiting for the automatic preset switching passionately, I hope it'll be there soon (even if paid upgrade)

[mvdam]

It would also be nice if the presents have unique names. In my case I used the same name for different presets and you cannot tell which is what.

BTW I really like the app!

[alexandrerochasalles]

Which "effects"/settings would be saved for each profile?

I think all of them but the volume, it's level must not be treated as a part of preset so user would have no need to change it every time to his linking. Standard system-like behaviour it needed. This also will fix #248

How would the UI looks like?

I think current one if lovely. A drop-out with devices (which is there but doesn't work as a menu) will be handy enough.

But let me note one more interface suggestion - it would be much better if the interface will be a kind of fly-out menu dropping out of the icon, iStats Menu style. Also this will solve the confusion with the X button which quits the app (another dedicated button for killing the process would be needed than though).
Taking different approach, you could save the current UI as a window, but adding a fast preset/device switching to icon drop-out menu.

Thank you for your work once again! Waiting for the automatic preset switching passionately, I hope it'll be there soon (even if paid upgrade)

Great comment Intenditore, you have explained every improvement that I could expect for the app.

1. The fly-out menu dropping out of the icon, instead of the window with the X button.
2. Keeping the volume level on profile changes, but everything else could be saved for the profile.

I think that one issue that I'm having is also related with that topic.
Every time that I turn off my monitor, or take away my MacBook, the eqMac just close itself, making me go to applications reopen it, and select the playback device (monitor).
I'm the only one with that issue??

Congratulations for your great job, the app is just amazing and it's getting even better.

[coraunderhill]

• Which "effects"/settings would be saved for each profile? (Volume, Balance, EQ) and what about future effects?

Volume automatically gets handled by the OS (at least in Catalina), so I feel like balance and EQ would be the notables.

• How would the UI looks like? eqMac currently has quite compact UI, would have to hide all of this profile setting menu behind modals, unless the to be expanded.

Not necessarily. It could be as simple as a small checkbox labeled "Remember device settings" nearby the dropdown selector. I would think you could handle checking/unchecking the box appropriately depending on the new device using something like onChange

[nodeful]

Hey everyone :)

Sorry for taking so long to implement this, but I just put out a Pre-Release of v1.5.0 with a feature called "Super Presets".
Basically you can create a Preset that saves the state of all the Effects (Spatial Audio and EQ for now but other coming in the future) and you can enable it to automatically switch to the said preset when a condition changes. Currently the condition to switch on a Specific Output Device is Free and the condition to switch when the main Audio app source changes is a part of the "Pro" offering, but more conditions will probably be available in the future :)
You can try it out by downloading it here:
https://github.com/bitgapp/eqMac/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Or by enabling "Beta Program" in eqMac Settings and Checking for Updates.
Please let me know what you think of this feature and how it's implemented, I'm looking for feedback!
Thank you all for your patience!

[Doridian]

@nodeful Thanks for the great release, I was aondering what you were working on :)

Anyway, how do you assign an EQ to a preset? I have tried creating the preset with my desired EQ set, or setting it while the preset is selected and then clicking save in the dialog.
But my EQ (Expert mode) never changes at all when I swap profiles.
Am I not seeing the right button? Or missing something else?

To note: the actual automated switching part works fine (when I plug/unplug my headphone setup it automatically swaps back and forth in the profile selector)

[nodeful]

Sorry @Doridian I missed your question, I replied to a similar question here: #732
Here's a copy paste:

I knew this would come up at some point as I agree the User Experience is not the most straight forward with this feature.
You know how when you have an EQ preset selected and you made a change the presets switches to Manual and you have to save the preset again if you want those settings to apply to a preset.
With Super Presets the behaviour is a little different. If you have a Super Preset selected and you make any changes it is
instantly saved to the selected preset. So what probably happened in your case is that you created a preset for 1 setup,
then instantly started to create a setup for the 2nd preset, but this whole time you were applying the new settings to the
1st preset.
What you need to do once you created the first preset is press the "Deselect" button or create a new preset straight away. Only then start applying the settings that you want for the 2nd preset.
I hope this explains the behaviour, if you have a suggestion on how I can make this better, please let me know, I'm open to discuss and modify this feature.

I will be closing this issue for house keeping, feel free to comment regardless on this issue or the one I referenced. Thank you for your cooperation and patience!

[MikixIT]

I don't understand, is this feature active? I can't find it anywhere.
I want to activate eqMac only on the external monitor.

Can you explain how? Thanks

[Aghiles97]

I also want to know the answer

[Aghiles97]

I don't understand, is this feature active? I can't find it anywhere. I want to activate eqMac only on the external monitor.

Can you explain how? Thanks

I believe I found the solution, you should use Super Preset, create different profiles, say one for you Mac and one for your headphone, then in the equalizer select a different profile for each, for example for the Mac use the default one, that is flat, and for your headphone use a custom eq, now go switch between audio device output, you will see each time you switch there, it will also switch in the eqMac.