MUmurdockq·Jun 15, 2025
Not affiliated at all but just came across and I wish this was built in to windows:
https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet
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EarTrumpet
EarTrumpet - Volume Control for Windows
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EarTrumpet - Volume Control for Windows
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesEarTrumpet
https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet
MIT
Price/revenue: $0.00*
(a few random one-time donations did occur, which is very kind)
An alternate audio mixer for Windows. Originally built in ~2012 to manage the audio of those new newfangled Immersive apps in Windows 8. (Microsoft shipped Windows 8 without the ability to manage the audio levels of Immersive apps. They were invisible to sndvol.exe! Wild times.) Supports per-app leveling, re-routing audio streams, and some other bits. We even have an add-on framework that we haven't shipped and is in perpetual dev-branch-only status right now due to time/support concerns.
It is now used by millions of folks, made an appearance on a Linus tips show, etc. Am slowly modernizing the app (app development on Windows is a dumpster fire right now) but probably not as quickly as folks
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Microsoft started work on providing a similar mixer, hidden in development builds of Windows 11. It will be interesting to see what happens there.
EarTrumpet Is a Powerful Volume Control App for Windows
2 points · Open discussionThe developers of EarTrumpet figured it out, see https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet . Their solution is based on WPF and quite complex, however there are APIs to get the current mode, and all the modern UI colors.
I myself implemented the modern black menu style for a tray icon, so that the menu looks like the native tray icons. It's "just" a matter of owner drawing everything. Unfortunately, there is no secret "make my app dark" api in WinForms / WPF.
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