I’ve just released a new Listening Post version. Update your install from LP’s main menu → “Check for Updates …” or grab it from the product page:
New & Exciting
- History inspector — Past listens now show links for the music services you have enabled, so you can jump from a saved track straight to Apple Music, Last.fm, Spotify, and the rest.
No Longer Broken
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Bluetooth headphones should no longer drop into call-quality audio — In previous versions, Listening Post could accidentally trigger one of the more annoying Bluetooth headset behaviours on macOS. If your AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones were also available as a microphone, ShazamKit could end up opening that Bluetooth mic for live recognition. The moment macOS opens a Bluetooth headset microphone, the headset has to switch away from high-quality stereo playback into its lower-quality two-way “call” mode, so your music suddenly sounds worse and the volume/level may shift.
The new version avoids that path. Live recognition explicitly prefers a non-Bluetooth input device, such as your Mac’s built-in microphone, instead of opening the microphone in your Bluetooth headphones. That means your headphones should stay in their normal high-quality playback mode while Listening Post is listening.
One caveat: if a Bluetooth headset is the only microphone available, macOS still has to use it, and that quality drop is unavoidable. Also, this does not add system-audio capture; music playing privately inside sealed earbuds still generally cannot be recognized through another microphone.
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Removed a sneaky memory leak — Leaving Listening Post running should no longer slowly inflate memory usage just from recognition status changes.
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Shazam library import — The continuous Shazam import was made more stable.
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Rocksky — The “Connected as” username now opens the correct Rocksky profile.
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Channels window links — More channel configuration links now use the proper pointing-hand cursor. Tiny thing, but wrong is wrong.
Changes
- History search — Search waits a fraction longer before filtering while you type, which makes it feel less twitchy on larger histories.
If you like the app, I’d really help if you could help me spread the word. On Reddit, maybe? 