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What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] brognak@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

On Windows: EarTrumpet

Being able to quickly change audio outputs is awesome, I am always bouncing between headset and speakers. Also the pop up volume mixer is better than the built in one. Been using ET for years and years, can pry it from my cold dead hands.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What does it do that the standard windows soundmixer doesn't do?

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ctrl+Win+V doesn't do anything for me. The best part about Eartrumpet for me is that you can manage all audio outputs on your system individually. Since I use a virtual mixer, this makes it easy to adjust everything without being to open the mixer, as well as making sure each program is outputting audio to the right place.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Having a bind that just instantly toggles between speakers/headphones is one of the major reasons I'm now stuck with Linux whether I like it or not

Was one of the big things that got me hooked in general because audio config is such a pain on windows

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

I programmed my headset macro keys to do this with nircmd.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

+1 for EarTrumpet

It's probably the most useful program I have on my Win10 machine.