Audio Overload 4+

If You're Into Emulation Audio, Grab This App

As a person who has been into emulation for a while, especially the music side, Audio Overload has been one of my top used apps. While there are formats I wish it could play (MultiPCM VGZ would be awesome), I can't knock it down a star for that. I'm liking the new interface and super glad its on the App store. If I had only one request, it would be more audio options such as tweaking how it handled Snes audio output. Eitherway, worth a download.

Very buggy

I know this app is very heavily praised among Mac users who love chiptunes, but this app still has a lot of bugs that have been around since I first tried Audio Overload back in 2007. A lot of PSFs won't play on this, VGMs that use the YM2413 chip play on the left side only, GSFs often don't play correctly, and I have run into a lot of other issues that are specific to Audio Overload that just don't happen in other apps like Modizer and even Audacious on Linux. There is no way to sort the playlist either. I had better luck using Winamp ChipAmp on Porting Kit. Sorry, I wanted to like this, but I just can't with 15 year old bugs that never got fixed. I just don't get why this app receives so much praise.

Developer Response ,

I hate to be that person, but bugs that are never reported don’t generally get fixed :)

GSF support is based on an old emulation core and I agree that it has shortcomings.

If you can point me to specific PSFs that don’t work I can look into them.

I’ve just read the code for YM2413 VGM and I can see that it is doing a stereo mix, so again if you can point me to examples I can check into them.

Still the best video game music player!

For a while I’ve been using the original one from your site, when I heard you updated and put it on the App Store I just had to install it. Its even better than the original, with new added speed and pitch controls, glitches fixed, and backwards compatibility with older versions of Mac OS?! Now thats what I call quality! once again, thank you Richard Bannister!