# BackgroundMusic v0.5.0 — Background Music v0.5.0

- Product: BackgroundMusic (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/backgroundmusic)
- Vendor: kyleneideck
- Date: 2026-06-10
- Version: v0.5.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic/releases/tag/v0.5.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/backgroundmusic/releases/v0.5.0

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- **added** — Per-app mute button
- **added** — Configurable auto-pause delays for better YouTube compatibility
- **changed** — Improved per-app volume support for Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Arc Browser, NAVER Whale and Discord
- **changed** — Background Music now stops processing audio when nothing is playing so macOS won't show the microphone indicator
- **added** — Installs without needing Rosetta 2 installed
- **changed** — Turning on debug logging now also enables it in Background Music's virtual audio driver
- **fixed** — Fix a crash when an app's volume is set with no bundle ID
- **fixed** — Fix the volume icon not being centred in the menu bar
- **fixed** — Fix multiple crashes in Background Music.app
- **fixed** — Fix a theoretical crash (use-after-free) in audio playthrough
- **fixed** — Fix the "device is running" listener doing nothing
- **fixed** — Fix BGMXPCHelper showing as "Kyle Neideck" in System Settings

If you don't know which file to download, you want `BackgroundMusic-0.5.0.pkg` and you can ignore the others.

##### Changes since v0.4.3

###### New
* Per-app mute button by @TwelfthFace in #843
* Configurable auto-pause delays, for better YouTube compatibility, by @jackdrowlands in #818
* Improved per-app volume support for Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Arc Browser, NAVER Whale and Discord. Thanks to @manzick (#741), @abdulkadiryugruk (#839) and @GloryWord (#852).
* Background Music now stops processing audio when nothing is playing, so macOS won't show the microphone indicator. It still shows while audio is playing. We're working on that. (2171d9f)
* Installs without needing Rosetta 2 installed (48bdcd1)
* Turning on debug logging now also enables it in Background Music's virtual audio driver (BGMDriver) (0f808cf)

###### Fixes
* Fix a crash when an app's volume is set with no bundle ID by @abdulkadiryugruk and @kyleneideck in #839
* Fix the volume icon not being centred in the menu bar by @7Backwards in #767
* Fix multiple crashes in Background Music.app by @johzzy in #777 and #778
* Fix a theoretical crash (use-after-free) in audio playthrough (5158af0)
* Fix the "device is running" listener doing nothing (c235bc9)
* Fix BGMXPCHelper showing as "Kyle Neideck" in System Settings (86ca21c)

###### Under the hood
* Code cleanup and refactoring to support C++11 by @johzzy in #779 and #781, and a log-message fix in #776
* Update Homebrew installation instructions by @khipp in #785
* Fix BGMDriver and BGMXPCHelper debug builds not loading on recent macOS (8769ff7)
* Fix warnings on Xcode 26.5 (f5435da)
* Remove `BGM_WrappedAudioEngine` and other dead code (035e4de)

##### New Contributors
* @manzick made their first contribution in #741
* @7Backwards made their first contribution in #767
* @johzzy made their first contribution in #776
* @khipp made their first contribution in #785
* @jackdrowlands made their first contribution in #818
* @abdulkadiryugruk made their first contribution in #839
* @TwelfthFace made their first contribution in #843
* @GloryWord made their first contribution in #852 (partially merged so far)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic/compare/v0.4.3...v0.5.0