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Feature: Possibility to passthrough disabled volume control

Open Doridian opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

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Description: Pretty much what the title says. There is some audio devices that tell macOS they don't have volume control apparently. I would like if eqMac had an option to behave the same way if it "mirrors" these devices, just lock itself at 100%. Maybe even a config option on which devices to lock at 100%.

This is made worse by probably https://github.com/bitgapp/eqMac/issues/516 or similar messing with my volume settings when switching playback devices.

User flow & interface: Add an option like "disable volume control for this audio device", which locks the volume knob at 100% and shows disabled volume slider in the macOS UI.

Doridian avatar Dec 16 '21 15:12 Doridian

Hi, we allow volume controls on device that doesn't have it by changing the gain internally. This allows the user to control the volume no matter what device they are using. Please let me know the use case of this, thanks!

superjeng1 avatar Jun 19 '23 22:06 superjeng1

Hi, we allow volume controls on device that doesn't have it by changing the gain internally. This allows the user to control the volume no matter what device they are using. Please let me know the use case of this, thanks!

I have devices with hardware volume knobs, being able to accidently reduce my volume in macOS is not desirable, it should always run at 100% so I know the only thing changing volume is that hardware knob.

Doridian avatar Jun 19 '23 23:06 Doridian

Oh, I see, that is very much understandable, we would be planning this in a future update.

superjeng1 avatar Jun 22 '23 12:06 superjeng1