The latest version of Boom Volume Booster and System-wide Equalizer is out, and boy, does it have some improvements in this update! To all those who were late to join the bandwagon, Boom is available on the Mac App Store and the Global Delight Online Store for just $8.99. So go ahead and give some Boom love to those puny Mac Speakers! For existing users, this will be a free update (yay!).

So what do we have to offer you in this update? Before I go into the details, I just want to send a huge shout-out to all our Boom users who helped us with Beta-testing this version. You guys rock and help us make Boom the best app ever!

CPU Utilization

In this version, we have primarily gone into bug-fix mode and have improved the existing features. To begin with, the CPU usage, which was considerably reduced in one of our previous updates but was still bothering most of our users, has been improved. Some of you asked us, “Why does Boom continue to utilize the CPU even when I’m not using it?”. So to handle this and also to not hamper the performance of Boom, we have enabled the CPU utilization to drop to zero when there is no sound input for a continuous 5 seconds. This ensures that Boom now does not use any additional CPU when it is not in use.

Audio Sync

We have also had a few users who reported that while watching a video for a long duration, the audio would often go off-sync. This was a really difficult issue for us to troubleshoot since we were not able to regenerate this issue on our test systems. However with the help of a few users, we were able to get to the root cause of this and have now fixed it in this version.

Another minor issue where the System-audio would go mute when the system is re-started or re-logged into has also been fixed.

The Future

With this version, we have gone Intel Mac exclusive, as we found most of our users are using an Intel System, and we don’t want to be restricted with legacy codes that would prevent us from giving the best to our users. As for the future, we have some really interesting updates planned ahead. For a heads-up you can always follow us on Twitter and Facebook. You can also subscribe to our newsletter where we often feature tips and tricks, interesting offers, etc. And don’t forget to send in your suggestions. We are always happy to listen to what you have to say. If you want to share your Boom story; or send in some feedback or a suggestion, feature request; or you just want to say Hi! tap on the speech bubble icon at the bottom right of the Boom window, and type away! We would love to hear back from you.

- Vaishnavi

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