Volume Control & Mute/Un-Mute In Window Titlebar

[treeofshabadoo]

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It's extremely annoying to me, and I think to many others, that to control something as common as volume which can change levels just between videos or songs that you have to go into the task bar and pop out a menu to change it is an ancient way of thinking. And yes most video players have a built in volume option, but to me touching that is just YET another place I have to remember to change the volume back to normal, on top of Physical device volume, Program level volume, and now player level volume. And theres about 9 miles of extra room in the title bar. I was wondering if you brilliant brilliant people could somehow program it so I could control volume right next to the minimize button. Or at the very least have a mute window/unmute window toggle there? Also I am currently using EarTrumpet app, and although its great its still a menu I have to go into. Though it does save me the 2nd menu of the default design.

What is the expected behavior of the proposed feature? What is the scenario this would be used?
If you need to change the volume of a specific window you can do so without having to go into menus and options. Every day use.

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[treeofshabadoo]

Yeah exactly. If process windows would have a way to control sound right on the titlebar then it would save me a lot of going into menus to do it, as sometimes I just want to quiet a game for a moment or something to hear a section of a video better or some other minor modification to sound. My monitor is like 55 inches so it's not uncommon for me to have 4 or 5 windows open simultaneously, two or three of which might be producing sound. I do the bulk of my gaming in windowed mode. And then from process to process the method of controlling sound is very different too, like I think firefox has mute tab, and media volume controls, as well as OS controls. And then chrome has mute Site I think which mutes all tabs from one website, and media, and OS controls. And then games generally you have to use OS controls, or otherwise open the menus and adjust things in the in game options. Plus on a 55inch monitor its a significant journey just to mouse from top left corner window to bottom right corner of the monitor to hit the sound icon and then that brings up the system volume, but then you have to hit another button to get into the breakdown of the volumes by process or whatever (and all that just to maybe shift volume by 4% lower). My mouse is already on the window im using so why not have the controls right there? if that makes sense. Ill attach a quick ms paint concept of it. [image: concept.png] or [image: concept-flip.png]

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 7:44 AM Jay ***@***.***> wrote: Similar to the "sound icon" that is in the tabs in browsers, right? In Chrome it's just an icon, but in Firefox and Edge it also works as a mute button. Chrome does have a media-control button inside every window, but (for you) that's still not quick enough if you're working in other windows.. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#6015 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQUXVMQH46XAKE2QJB3PLT3SBJSSJANCNFSM4QCPQHRQ> .

[crutkas]

@treeofshabadoo for images, you have to use the web UI.

[crutkas]

@riverar, this could be a neat addition to EarTrumpet

[a13ph]

https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker has a feature giving global volume control by scrolling over taskbar or tray (customizable even further through advanced options).
Written in AutoHotKey, part of source code is available at https://github.com/m417z/7-Taskbar-Tweaker

EarTrumpet is another great tool in this area, i agree, but it's tied to tray as well, for all the glory of control it provides.

It would be very convenient having something window-specific like what's envisiouned by @treeofshabadoo

Volumouse does work per-app, but to an extent, since some apps have several audio channels.
https://superuser.com/a/389761

[quangkieu]

+1 on Volumouse.
I tight master volume control to RightMouse+Scroll
App Volume to Shift+RightMouse+Scroll
Because it is scrolling so you could quickly mute
Ctrl+[ for mute mic
Ctrl+] for return mic

[treeofshabadoo]

Thank you everyone who took the time to reply.

@a13ph Unfortunately the game I play, or have running, nearly 24/7 prevents me from using AHK scripts as it thinks its a cheating tool. But its a great idea. I wonder if maybe logitechs built in drivers have anything similar. I doubt it, but I'll check it out and see.

I've been using ear trumpet since I heard about it on here and its much more convenient than the default for sure. It solves around 80% of the annoyance of having to change volume in most situations.

EDIT: Uh scratch what I just said, I didn't realize the tool you linked was an .exe I thought it was going to be an AHK file. It seems like this works right now. So I'm gonna give it a go and see how it is. Thanks for recommending it @a13ph

EDIT2: Dang, looks like its only the global volume it controls, which I see you said. I was just hoping it would be to each individual app. Now i'm going to try this volmouse that @quangkieu mentioned