Rebranded from early builds to Consort by Gavril&Co, featuring Acoustic Room Reflection Metal visual signature, TDOA mic sync, and unified per-pair profiles.
What’s New
Introducing Consort: Complete brand unification under Gavril&Co (consortaudio.com, bundle com.gavrilenko.Consort, URL scheme consort://) with Sparkle 2 auto-updates.
Acoustic Sync Calibration: Automated TDOA chirp measurement via your Mac’s microphone aligns speaker arrival times down to the millisecond across mixed AirPlay and CoreAudio speakers.
Metal Acoustic Reflection Sequence: Custom neutral luminance & chromatic wavefront Metal shader synchronized to Consort’s analog swell sound signature at first launch.
Per-Pair Saved Profiles & Perceived Volume VU Meters: Remembers volume, equal-power balance, delay, and single/mono behavior per speaker pair, with optional volume-scaled VU meters.
macOS-native Liquid Glass interface, millisecond delay alignment, single audio source mode, and automatic resume after sleep or restart.
Highlights
Inter-Speaker Delay Calibration (±ms): Dedicated precision slider (-150 ms to +150 ms) plus manual millisecond entry for aligning mismatched speakers or asymmetric rooms.
Single Audio Source Mode (Radio vs Toggle): Switch effortlessly between multi-app routing and single-source exclusive switching.
Automatic Resume After Sleep or Restart: Re-locks the shared RTP/NTP master clock and wakes your speaker pair automatically as soon as playback resumes in your chosen music app.
Permissions & Built-In Diagnostics: Live status tracking for macOS Audio Capture, Local Network, Accessibility, Notifications, and Launch at Login, with one-click System Settings links.
Native Liquid Glass Design System: Continuous geometry, neutral translucent materials, and silky spring interactions.
v1.4.0macOS 15.0+
Consort 1.4 — Hardware F8–F12 Media Keys (64-Step OSD), Hybrid Mac Mode & Shortcuts
Native macOS keyboard volume control with 64-step OSD, hybrid Built-in Mac + AirPlay stereo pairing, AirPods auto-pause, and consort:// URL scheme.
New Features & Enhancements
F8 / F10 / F11 / F12 Media Keys & 64-Step OSD: Control playback toggle (F8), mute (F10), and volume (F11 / F12) with customizable modifier keys (⌘, ⌥, ⌃) and quarter-step precision (+ ⇧) matching native macOS HUD styling.
Hybrid Built-In Mac + AirPlay Output: Assign your Mac’s internal speakers as Left or Right channel alongside any AirPlay speaker.
Auto-Pause on Headphones / AirPods & Idle Standby: Pauses speaker streaming immediately when headphones connect and enters low-power standby after configurable silence timeouts.
Apple Shortcuts, Raycast & CLI Integration (consort://): Trigger streaming, switch audio sources, and control volume or balance from automation scripts.
Apple Silicon Efficiency: Under 0.1% CPU usage when idle in the menu bar.
v1.0.0macOS 15.0+
Consort 1.0 — AirPlay Stereo RAOP Engine & CoreAudio Process Tap
Initial macOS release: bit-perfect Left/Right stereo separation in lossless ALAC, mDNS discovery, and driverless per-app routing.
Core Foundations
Bit-Perfect Left / Right Stereo Separation: Real-time ALAC 16-bit / 44.1 kHz encoding with constant-power -3.01 dB pan law and transparent soft-knee limiter.
Native CoreAudio Process Tap Capture: Isolate individual apps (Spotify, Safari, Arc, Apple Music, Tidal…) or capture system-wide audio without virtual audio drivers (kext or HAL plugins).
Network Resilience & Automatic Single-Speaker Handling: Seamless -3 dB mono fold-down when only one speaker is online and automatic stereo recovery when both speakers reconnect.
