Music Add Ons - EQ and Visualizer - Not Working!

Mac Studio Pro Max

MacOS Sequoia 15.2 (24C101)

Primary Output Device is Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, but the following has been tested with: Local Machine Speaker/Airpods Pro 2/Variety of Airplay clients.


The Visualizers don't work.

  1. Open Apple Music
  2. Play Music.
  3. Click Window/Visualizer - Choose either Visualizer or Classic Vizualizer - Note - that neither are responding to the music. This also happens with Third party awesome visualizers like SoundSpectrum's G-Force, Aeon and WhiteCap.


The Equalizer don't work either.

  1. Open Apple Music
  2. Play Music.
  3. Click Window/Equalizer
  4. Make sure Equalizer checkbox is ON.
  5. Turn Preamp up or down, there is zero change in volume.
  6. Turn any of the frequency sliders up or down. Nada. Nothing. No workee.


Apple takes a lot of pride in its multi media and for good reason. It usually works and is very high quality from an output perspective.


For musician/producer that loves his music visualizations while playing music and who is very particular about the frequency response within a specific room - I used these features a lot. As I have aged, my ability to hear higher frequencies have diminished and boosting them via EQ helps. I consider this an accessibility issue.


And now they are brokies and I am very sad about it.


Please make my Apple Music experience "delightful" again.


Thanks.


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Mac Studio (2022)

Posted on Dec 22, 2024 11:44 AM

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Jan 28, 2025 09:33 AM in response to cchipman

UPDATE: With the 15.3 Release this appears to be working - both eq and vis as long as you are playing only to the locally connected speakers.


Click one airplay source and it all suddenly stops, both eq and vis, even if that airplay destination is just added to the local speakers already playing.

Is this by design or still a work in progress?

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