switchaudio-osx mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• SwitchAudioSource

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README describes a command-line-only utility for Mac OS X, tested across OS X 10.7 through macOS 11.2. The license and README credit Devon Weller beginning in 2008 and Christian Zuckschwerdt for migrating the project to GitHub and adding the next-device option.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README explicitly documents Homebrew installation, and the input package facts show the same utility distributed through Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix. That spread is typical for small macOS-native command-line tools that remain useful because they wrap a missing shell affordance.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run SwitchAudioSource to list devices, print the current device, set a device by name, id, or uid, choose input/output/system device type, select human/CLI/JSON output, or toggle mute status for input or output devices. The README gives microphone muting as a hotkey-oriented use case.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care because this is exactly the kind of tiny Mac utility package managers preserve: a single-purpose CLI that exposes system behavior to scripts, dotfiles, launchers, and keyboard automation.

Zeitleiste

• 2008: Copyright attribution begins for Devon Weller in the upstream license/README.
• 2011: Copyright attribution begins for Christian Zuckschwerdt in the upstream README.
• Homebrew era: The README documents brew install switchaudio-osx.
• macOS 11.2 era: The README states the utility was tested through OS 11.2.

Related projects

• The project is related to macOS automation, hotkey managers, and dotfile scripts that need to select audio devices without GUI interaction.

Quellen

• https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx
• https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx#readme
• source_facts.executables
• source_facts.package-manager