Audio Midi Setup

Hey All!


I've got a Mac Mini (Macmini8,1) where I have connected my iPhone XR to my Mac Mini via Lighting to USB. I open up the "Audio Midi Setup" application compiled by Apple and the application see's my iPhone as an input. So I enable my iPhone as the input and then open up System Prefs to select my USB (or audio 3.5mm jack) as the output. I'm not hearing any audio from the iPhone source. However if I play audio from the macOS Apple Music application, audio plays just fine without issue.


Here is where things get interesting. I work for Panopto which is a software recording application / service that can record desktop audio and video as well as PowerPoint/Keynote and additional camera inputs. Panopto is actually able to pick up this audio if Panopto is recording. So this tells me that the audio from the iPhone is getting to the "system audio", however it's not being routed from system to my headphones.


Can the Audio Midi Setup application be used to route audio from iPhone to my headphones plugged into the same Mac Mini?


**Edit**

The iPhone is recognizing the connection with MIDI as a Dock Connector. The same behavior is observed with any audio coming from iPhone, whether that be from YouTube, AppleMusic or even just iOS System Notifications. No audio is heard through my headphones.


Any help or guidance would be great! Thank you.

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 5:01 PM

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Feb 5, 2020 1:40 PM in response to QuickPost

Essentially what I'm looking to do is just route the music I play from my iPhone over USB into my MacMini to my headphones. I'm attempting this type of workflow as I'm working on developing an iOS Application that utilizes AppleMusic. When I listen to AppleMusic on my Mac mini and do some testing on my iOS app and play music from my iPhone, music on my Mac Mini stops due to the license of only one device being able to stream music at one time. I figured using Midi to route audio from my iPhone to my headphones would work.


As said before - third party applications that record system audio are picking up the audio, just not headphones.

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