Ahh I totally missed that, sorry. I have the Loudness meter in the left corner and my secondary monitor is a little further away, so it was kind of blending in with the loudness meter range numbers.
Also it's been really great to see these bug fix updates coming out so quick, you're on a roll haha :D
Hey there, first off congrats on the launch of v1, I've been really keen to update, some of the new features got me really excited! :D
Couple of things I've noticed:
Upon updating from 0.8.25 to 1.0.8 (on macOS 15.5) it didn't carry over my settings from 0.8 version and just loaded the new default and I couldn't find a way to retrieve my settings.
Hide Toolbar:
I love the addition of this, but once you hide it, you can't unhide it, until you reopen the app? That feels a bit unintuitive. Also when you hide the tool bar there's no way to access the recording features anymore.
So either the ability to access the recording features + show/hide tool bar options need to be added to the macOS menubar where rn there're some minimeters stuff you can change like the input selection and presets etc.. but not other stuff (makes navigating things less intuitive).
Or maybe hiding the toolbar should become more of a "collapse/expand" toolbar where if "hidden" there's still a small thing in the corner (say like only having the minimeters logo part of the toolbar visible) and clicking it expands it back to the full tool bar.
Settings:
So right now you have settings in the main tool bar, which takes you to settings. But in the overflow menu there's also a settings, which takes you to the same settings. Then inside settings you have "show additional settings" which opens on a window with the first 2 pages that shows you pretty much the exact same settings(?) that were already in the main settings window, now just in a different layout(?) with only actual "additional" settings (that aren't on the main settings page) on the 3rd "advanced" page(?).
The "(?)" aren't me trying to be snarky or anything, I'm all for more options and ways of doing things, I'm just genuinely unsure, because there's too much stuff. These ways of going to settings aside from the "main" toolbar way of going into settings makes me feel like I'm missing out on settings and I'm clicking through all the pages double checking if I didn't miss something I wanted to change, so it feels a little convoluted and overwhelming, which is a shame because other than that, MiniMeters is such an elegant and easy to use app :D
Other than this I'm loving the latest version, it's running really smoothly! :D
Hey, hope you're doing well.
I've noticed a small bug in v0.8.21, (standalone) on macOS 14.5 M2 Max Mac Studio.
Upon opening the app, my Stereometer module remains black with no readout, until I hover my cursor over the window and then it starts working as expected, until I quit the app and reopen again.
I do have my Stereometer module popped out, whilst my spectrum and waveform are part of the "main set" (and work as expected every time).
Let me know if you need more info :)
Really appreciate all the effort and bringing these fixes so quickly!
Regarding the not really recommended editing of the settings file: I had some time and wanted to mess around with it a bit, sadly no luck over here. Any changes resulted in Minimeters immediately crashing upon opening, I see why it wasn't recommended haha. No worries though, I can hold out till the update arrives. Also replacing the settings file with the original backup and then restarting solved the crashing.
I might play around with that when I have some downtime, thanks!
If I make a copy of the unaltered .json file, and put that back before updating to the new version (when released) it should technically revert the settings to default, without potentially messing something up in the future install, right?
No worries, I’m happy to help out further if needed.
It’s always frustrating when something like that changes out of the blue and you then have to spend time and resources playing catch up.
I wonder if there’s some sort of way to implement a gain stage in the app before the signal hits the meters? So in settings you could manually set the amplitude, if desired.
Hi, since updating to macOS 14.2 it seems that the input gain running in desktop audio mode has somehow changed? (noticed in both v0.8.14 and 15).
For example: Playing audio files that peak at 0dB (and can confirm from the meters on my interface that these are indeed at 0dB) would usually display on the minimeters waveform meter "maxed out" filling the whole window, for lack of a better term. But since the 14.2 update it seems closer to -14dB (this goes for the readouts on all the modules, not just waveform).
I tried messing with the settings a bit and removing and re-adding minimeters to the desktop recording permissions, but no luck.
Not sure if it's an OS thing, or something that I can troubleshoot further?
Hi, I've really been enjoying MiniMeters, I was just wondering one thing:
Both the Waveform meter and Stereo meter share the same colour scheme representing low, mid and high frequencies, yet the only options for the Spectrum analyser are the static colour line in FFT mode and the seemingly arbitrary red/magenta colours in "bar/both" modes, I think it would be awesome and quite intuitive if the colours of the bars in the bar/both mode followed the same colour transitions of the frequency ranges like the other meters. :)
Anyway, just a thought, keep up the amazing work!
