This is not about whether it is better than Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, Rocket.Chat or Jitsi. This is not about the pros and cons of Teams. Clear the stage for Microsoft and their all-in-one remote working solution Microsoft Teams. Naturally they had to find an alternative to make home office somewhat functional – and took their chance with a company that is undeniably one of the biggest in the world, but certainly also not the most dynamic and disrupting one – at least in recent years.
The reaction especially from some of the bigger corporates on the market was quite restrictive – in many business environments Zoom is not considered as a trusted solution for the exchange of information anymore. One the one hand side this made service providers for such tools one of the very few beneficiaries of the current situation – on the other hand, though this attention on their products also revealed some skeletons in the closet that are not all particularly brand-new discoveries but gained some momentum through the much bigger audience that is currently perceptive for those topics – yes, I am talking about the (beloved and hated) video chat solution by Zoom Video Communications Inc. With one of the most easily spottable and certainly necessary breaks with normality the closing down of office buildings around the world not just left public transportation nearly empty even around rush-hour – it also created an entire new home office situation for the employees.īeing forced to work out of the own house or apartment changed the usual working routine of millions of people from one day to another – which immediately resulted in the rise of remote collaboration tools to an extend that was never seen before.
So now I'm sort of kicking myself for going through all of this trouble with a cheaper software when I could have just shelled a little extra cash earlier and gotten a more reliable product.Things have changed quite dramatically in the past weeks – and while the intention of this article is neither to analyze the socio-economical aspects of the crisis nor shed some light on the business side of it, it is somehow directly related to the massive transformation millions of people are currently facing. It made no sense to me and was pissing me off so I said screw it and just got Loopback and it worked basically instantly. I'd have to fiddle with it unchecking and rechecking some boxes in Sound Siphon or in my aggregate audio device in MacOS and then it would just magically start capturing.Īnyway yesterday I spent hours trying to get Sound Siphon to work properly - it was capturing Zoom audio but not anything else. Getting it to capture Discord was also troublesome, just seemed random whether or not it would actually work. It never wanted to capture the audio from Chrome but would capture it from Firefox just fine. Problem is, I never could quite get Sound Siphon working perfectly.
It basically does exactly what Soundflower/Loopback for Mac does, except it's only $30 for a license instead of $100. I was also using it to route the monitored audio from the DAW to a virtual audio device defined with Sound Siphon which I would use as the virtual mic so that remote guests could hear clips and stuff that I would play on my computer. I bought Sound Siphon nearly a year ago at this point and have been using it every week for a podcast in order to capture audio from different programs and route them to their own dedicated tracks in my DAW. Does anyone here use Sound Siphon and experience seemingly random, impossible to diagnose issues?