Option to hide audio device

[krisu5]

At least on the volume menu.

I have connected TV to my PC and I never need to change its volume settings, so that's why.

[terrehbyte]

I did a barebones implementation of this for myself on a fork, but it's nowhere near ready to submit as a PR.

https://github.com/terrehbyte/EarTrumpet

Currently, a new section is added to the Settings window that a series of toggles for showing/hiding devices. All devices are enabled by default, reflecting the current behavior. This only applies to the flyout window at the moment.

Some TODOs on my part:

• Refresh the list if the list of devices to hide has changed (currently requires app restart)
  • Fix duplicate device entries
• Add a more user-friendly way of hiding devices (maybe a list of toggles?)
• Find a less brittle way to track devices (does Windows have a GUID for each device?)
  • Could be possible with IStreamWithVolumeControl.Id which is stable between boots (but might change on a Windows update, so fuzzy matching might be nice as a fallback)
  • Updated Windows; the Id prop definitely doesn't seem stable across updates, ideally would implement something
• Add an option to apply these filter options to the picker window as well
• Figure out how glyphs work to change settings icon
• Contact maintainers
• Always show active device even if it is normally filtered from the list

[Hill-98]

This is a great feature and I was looking for it too. Since I have two monitors connected and some speakers and headphones, I just want to simply hide some instead of disabling them.

[lumpycustard]

Sad to see this suggestion has not received any attention since 2021. I have way too many devices that i can't disable else i would break functionality of their associated apps. I just want to hide them from EarTrumpet to make swapping between outputs faster and easier.

[mohcow]

This is such a must-have feature for people with a software audio mixer(voicemeeter) like me. flyout is so absurdly huge due to so many devices i can't disable. I really hope this gets implemented.

[Lhorzz]

It'd be nice if there was a feature to show only the active audio device in the right click > Volume Mixer window. I don't need to see all the other devices on it that aren't currently active. I saw someone implement a filter, but that's only with the icon left clicking.

So in this image it'd only show my speaker and not the headphone one.

[terrehbyte]

Oh, good point. I didn't even know that there was another Volume Mixer until you mentioned it. 👀

My dev build actually has three different ones...

Though I think the one you're referring to is the one that's not nested under Windows Legacy.

I'd imagine that there's nothing I can do about Windows' mixers, but I'll see if I can apply it to EarTrumpet's in my fork and reach out to maintainers again about merging.

[Lhorzz]

No, it's not the legacy one, it's that bottom option on your picture. I use it a lot since I have no other way to control the volume on my headset, and I have to change it a lot, so I just keep the window open on a side monitor. But would love to be able to only see what device is currently active so I don't see a long bar.

[zdimension]

This feature would be really nice. I've got lots of output devices so it's unusable (screenshot only shows half):