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Mac audio guides
How to get music, a clip or any app’s sound into a call or a stream on a Mac, and how the tools that route audio compare. Written by the team that makes Patch.
Your Mac’s sound in calls, streams and recordings
- Play music through your mic
Music, a clip or a game into Zoom, Discord, Meet or OBS, with your voice.
- Play music on Google Meet
Tab audio, system audio, or music in your mic without presenting.
- Play music on Discord
Music for the whole voice channel, without a screen share.
- Play music on Zoom
Share sound, Computer Audio, or music in your mic, and the setting that keeps it.
- Play music on Teams
Include sound, the Mac audio driver, or music in your mic with no share.
- Play music in a huddle
Share system audio in Slack, the permission fix, or music in your mic.
- No sound when sharing
The sound switch in Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack, and the Mac permission.
- Zoom fitness class music
Your cues on top and the music under, for yoga, spin or dance classes.
- Play Spotify in a call
Your voice with Spotify under it, and what Jam and Listen Along do instead.
- Screen record with audio
Your voice and an app’s sound in a Mac screen recording, on any recent macOS.
Mac audio routers compared
- Loopback alternatives
Loopback, BlackHole, VB-Cable, Soundflower and Patch compared.
- BlackHole alternatives
What the BlackHole setup takes for a call, and what mixes for you.
- Loopback vs BlackHole
A $99 router against a free driver: price, setup, mixing and volume.
- Soundflower alternatives
Soundflower won’t run on Apple silicon. What does its jobs now.