The best app for what it does…just one issue

I’ve been using Boom since its early days. It’s absolutely superb at what it does, namely boost your Mac’s volume and let you equalize its sound according to your liking. Definitely worth 10 bucks but a bargain even at 20. At least until Apple figures out that maybe they should build this functionality into the OS!

But there’s one annoyance with Boom that’s always been there, one that for the life of me I can’t imagine why they haven’t fixed it by now in Boom 2. You go to the app store, purchase the app and install it, good to go. But…in order for the volume boost and equalization to actually work, you have to do a seperate download and installation. And they aren’t even from the app store where they’d be easy to get to; you have to get the installer file from a web site and then run it manually from the Downloads folder.

The link to the installer is in the ap itself, but the first time I installed it today, I didn’t see that link. So I went out and downloaded the Boom 2 user guide, and looked on the web site itself, hunted high and low. Then I closed the app and relaunched it, and somewhere in it the link to this Boom Device appeared. I downloaded it, installed it and was good to go.

So my question is, why would Global Delight not have this Boom Device thing install with the actual Boom app that you get from the App Store? It seems bizarre to me, and no matter which version of Boom you get or how much you may for it, you are OUT OF THE WATER until you can get this Boom Device installed. That seems moronic to me for an app that’s otherwise absolutely brilliant.

Overall, Boom 2 is one of those apps like the Firefox browser, the Chrome browser, and Downcast, that you should download and install upon the purchase of any new MAc. I heard it’s available for IOS too, I’m going to try that next. Well played Global Delight!

Doleyd about Boom2:Volume Boost & Equalizer, v1.4.3