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Building Trace - see what Apple Music is actually playing on macOS.
Lossless / Hi-Res / Atmos / output sample rate / Playing Next.

[audex @audexdev]

Audex Trace is live on Product Hunt today 🚀

A tiny macOS app that shows what Apple Music is actually playing - Lossless / Hi-Res / Atmos, output sample rate, Playing Next, and skip warnings.

https://t.co/WM9s639Yfw

[audex @audexdev]

@Ellie417135885 Thanks! that’s exactly why I built it.

It’s one of those tiny details that’s easy to miss until you can see it in real time.

[audex @audexdev]

Audex Trace is live on Product Hunt today 🚀

A tiny macOS app that shows what Apple Music is actually playing - Lossless / Hi-Res / Atmos, output sample rate, Playing Next, and skip warnings.

https://t.co/WM9s639Yfw

[audex @audexdev]

Thanks, that’s actually a really good framing.

I agree that concrete failure examples make the value much easier to understand. Output mismatch, Atmos/AAC route differences, and queue skip warnings are probably the clearest demos.

Skip warnings are definitely one of the most “oh, wait, that’s useful” features, but I think the core promise is still: show what Apple Music is actually playing and what your Mac is actually outputting.

[audex @audexdev]

@artists_voyage Thanks, appreciate it!

[audex @audexdev]

@aryaan_smm Thanks, appreciate it!

[audex @audexdev]

@CodeGeniee Thanks Shivam! Appreciate you checking out the launch 🙌

[audex @audexdev]

First sale for Audex Trace 🎉

It’s just one payment, but it means a lot.

Yesterday it was just a project I was building.
Today it’s a product with a customer.

Thank you to the first person who bought it.
I’ll keep making it better.

[audex @audexdev]

@Kappaemme1926 lol maybe Codex picked your session for the chaos test

hope it clears up soon

[audex @audexdev]

@jxnlco weirdly fine here today.

maybe I’m just lucky, but Codex going down is very visible now because it sits in the middle of the whole workflow.

[audex @audexdev]

New demo for Audex Trace.

The main idea is simple: show what Apple Music is actually playing, what your Mac is outputting, and weird queue behavior before it surprises you.

Product Hunt launch is coming up next.

https://t.co/OBxOvwU9pC

[audex @audexdev]

@_nasch_ Which graphics card are you using?

[audex @audexdev]

@danielhanchen @UnslothAI nice. only getting ~30 t/s on an m5 max with plain mlx lol. is the amd gap mostly the dynamic quants or the backend? wondering if q4_k_xl beats mlx 4bit on apple silicon

[audex @audexdev]

I accidentally started building a C++20 lossless audio codec because I wanted to understand how close a solo implementation could get to FLAC/ALAC.

Now it has LPC, Rice coding, roundtrip tests, malformed input hardening, and my M5 Max is quietly grinding through codec tests.

This is how side projects happen.

https://t.co/65nUdrDSbh

[audex @audexdev]

@Aditya_181105 Apple Music

[audex @audexdev]

Trace caught two Apple Music queue items that were about to skip.

Then they skipped, and playback jumped straight to the third track.

Queue-level diagnostics are starting to feel real.

[audex @audexdev]

@poetrification wired on a Mac still has that unfair advantage.

less convenient, but at least the playback chain feels less mysterious.

[audex @audexdev]

@steipete yeah, the 4-10h part changes the job.

the hard part becomes setting the direction clearly enough, then knowing when not to interrupt it.

[audex @audexdev]

@synthwavedd that kind of upgrade is often the useful one.

less flashy, but you feel it in long coding sessions.

[audex @audexdev]

944 tokens/sec from a tiny local model on my M5 Max MacBook Pro feels fake.

LFM2.5-350M with MLX 4-bit
Not an API. Just local inference.

Tiny local models are starting to feel instant. @liquidai