Simple program that prevents annoying buzz sounds from your receiver on macOS (and Linux?)
When you hook up an AV receiver or some amplifiers to a Mac with macOS, or simply Linux, you will hear annoying buzzing sounds in the background when the audio subsystem is disabled. This program aims to fix this annoyance, by playing an empty audio file continuisely. If you do not hear annoying sounds when no audio is playing, you do not need this program.
Download a prebuilt binary from the 'Releases' tab.
If your distribution supports AppImages, you can download a prebuilt AppImage from the 'Releases' tab. If it doesn't, or you have a different architecture, you must build it yourself.
If you want to compile the project, first install the dependencies:
brew install qt cmake gcc
Then you can build it:
mkdir -p build/cd build/cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Releasecmake --build .
Finally, to install it:
- macOS: Copy
build/tystnad.appto/Applications/ - Linux: Copy
build/tystnadto/usr/bin(or/usr/local/bin)
Note: If you don't specify your build type as Release, a .app will not be created. This is only relevant for macOS.
This project is licensed under the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jacob Nilsson