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BatCrack Radio Delay

BatCrack Radio Delay at Mac App Store analyse

Jacob Rodriguez
Music Sports Sports Music
6,635 ratings · Power index: 1640
Free Mac App Store Follow Website
Version 2.0.0
Size 13.51 Mb
Updated 1 month ago
Released 01 Nov 2012

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PLEASE NOTE: Many new Mac laptops do not include a physical 1/8" input. If you have one of these computers and want to use BatCrack, you can purchase a third party USB audio interface from many retailers. Please email support for more information on this. Dont you love it when your favorite team makes the playoffs or is otherwise playing in some high profile game which is being broadcast nationally on some major network rather than with your local broadcast team? But dont you hate it that you cant listen to your favorite local radio broadcasters especially in the very biggest games of the year?!? Well the obvious answer is to turn the TV volume down and watch the game while listening to the local radio announcers. Unfortunately, the TV broadcast of the game is usually delayed by anywhere from 6 seconds to several minutes whereas the radio broadcast has no such delay on it, making syncing up the radio broadcast and TV broadcast highly annoying and nearly impossible. BatCrack Radio Delay is a simple utility to delay your incoming audio by a user-definable amount. All you need is a radio and a small cable to connect the radio to the audio input on your Mac. After connecting up, fire up BatCrack, turn up the volume and set a delay time. With a few seconds of trial and error, you can fine tune the delay time to perfectly sync up the swing with the crack of the bat! Now youre listening to your favorite announcers during the most important games of the year! The easiest way to enjoy BatCrack Radio Delay is to use a transistor radio and a 1/8 inch (3.5mm) stereo mini-to-mini cable. Plug one end of the cable to the audio output (or headphone out) of your radio, plug the other end into the line input of your Mac. Turn on your radio and turn up the radios volume. You probably wont hear anything yet. Fire up BatCrack. Make sure to choose Built-in Input for your Input, and Built-in Output for your Output. Turn up the volume in BatCrack. You should hear your radio. Make sure its properly tuned to your favorite sports broadcast. If you hear a lot of distortion, try turning down the volume on your radio until the distortion goes away. Once you have a decent sounding signal coming through BatCrack, go ahead and try different delay times. Most TV broadcasts will be delayed by at least 10 seconds, and sometimes as much as several minutes. Start with 15 seconds (a good starting place) and keep adding or subtracting time until you feel the TV and Radio are in sync. Enjoy the game. I hope your team wins! (Unless theyre playing against my team!)

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Doesnt work

Elmonte55 · 12 years ago · v1.0.1

Doesnt work. Emailed for support over a week ago. No reply.

Saves My Sunday!

Old Muley · 13 years ago

Watching the Packers on TV I have two choices, listen to Joe Buck/Troy Aikman or put on the radio and enjoy Wayne Larrivee/Larry McCarren. For any Packer fan thats an easy call to make. Unfortunately there is about a 10 second delay between whats on TV and the live action of the radio. So you can imagine that finding this application was awesome! The interface can be a little odd at first, but it can be figured out in short order. The hardest part was finding a FM radio in my house that had a headphone output. you can fine tune the delay to the 1/100 of a second which should meet just about anyones needs.

Crashes on start on Mac Pro 10.8.3.

sgginc · 13 years ago

Crashes on start on Mac Pro 10.8.3. No way to contact developer. Too bad, great idea!!!

Love it!

kahuna21 · 13 years ago

I just found this and ive been looking for a very inexpensive way to sync it up. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

Better solution than more expensive options

R.J.I. · 13 years ago

This app does the job. Nothing fancy about the interface, Id like the volume control to be designed better, but it works. I was able to listen to the home team radio call on WGN of the NHL Playoff game between the LA Kings and Chicago Blackhawks tonight while watching the broadcast on NBC-SN and the delay was 8.7 seconds. BatCrack Radio delay was easy to set up. I used a Griffin iMic for the input from a small portable radio and went from my MacBook Pros headphone jack to my stereo amplifier. The iMic wasnt necessary, but it lets you switch from a line level input to a mic level input. It might help avoid distortion. During the national anthem I had the TV sound on and could adjust the length of the delay until the radio and TV matched perfectly. You might not realize you must "turn" the volume "knob" on the screen using your mouse to bring up the volume or you will not hear any output. Also, the app hides the menu bar. You can quit with cmd-q or move your cursor up to the top of the screen and the menu bar will appear. I was pleased that the app did not fail during the entire game or loose the timing of the delay. Once the exact delay needed was set, I didnt need to touch it. I almost invested about $60 for a "SportSync Radio" to accomplish the same goal. This was a much better, and less expensive solution. Best of all, the Blackhawks won!

Kind of works

dclippert · 12 years ago

This works on my iMAC perfectly. But I need it to work on my MAC Book Pro. I have a USB sound card for a headset that will allow me t use it but it crashes on startup if I try it.

Now I dont have to listen to the awful TBS announcers anymore!

nycmilkshake · 12 years ago

Works perfectly. Im using Soundflower as an intermediary to delay the Gameday Audio from the MLB site -- no FM radio necessary. Install Soundflower and restart. Then in the Sound panel in your System Preferences, set the Output to Soundflower (2ch). Then open BatCrack Radio Delay, pick Soundflower (2ch) as Input, Built-in Output as Output, turn up the volume and set the delay. The volume control is a bit fiddly to use -- otherwise its perfect!