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First off many thanks for sharing your app with us!

I have noticed similar to this posting (Roobles):
https://www.push2run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=814
that after setting the volume (for example) thru:
setvol +20
or
setvol -20
or
setvol mute
or
setvol unmute

there is a delay after executing the desired state and termination
of setvol.exe

After looking through the code:
https://github.com/roblatour/setvol/blob/main/setvol/Main.vb
@line 747
' zero to one hundred
NewVolume = ConvertFromWords(CommandLine)
If ((NewVolume >= 0) AndAlso (NewVolume <= 100)) Then
Dim NewVolSingle As Single = NewVolume / 100
SetTheLevel(NewVolSingle)
MasterVolumeLevelChanged = True
GoTo AllGood
End If

The code goes to 'AllGood' @816:
AllGood:

    If gDev Is Nothing Then GoTo WrapUp

Then (pending on gdev) it goes to 'WrapUp' @909
where it, as far as I can tell goes through quite a
lot of code... before terminating.

I am by no means sure but is this necessary?
Something similar happens for muting.

Possibly terminating earlier after setvol n
or setvol mute would reduce execution time
allowing setvol.exe to be used some what more
dynamically.

I would like to target only Spotify, but it appears the controls can only be global. Could such functionality be added?

Hi Rob,

Thanks again for the latest updates. After using SetVol3 for a couple of days, and while it's still fresh in your mind, I have an observation.

The absolute min timeout before reporting "no sound" is 1 sec, which is long enough to be noticeable to the user but is a very long time to the computer. (Also, there seems - on my i7/32Gb/SSD system at least - to be an in-built delay of ~ 1sec starting the program under Win10, and then the 1sec sampling delay on top of that does make it noticeable).

I wonder if you would consider allowing the minimum allowable test time to be smaller - would tenths of a sec (e.g. 0.1sec/0.5secs be unreasonable? Would 0.5secs be the lowest you would go? Or would there be no point allowing a test time smaller than 1sec? If this is easy, I'd be grateful - otherwise, I can live happily with it the way it is.

Thanks!

I couldn't find a way to set the Windows default communication device
Unfortunately this is the main reason I need a way to control windows audio as my windows keeps messing up my settings when I plug and unplug devices

Exact steppt taken:

• Go to systemcontroll > sound
• Set device as standard (both communication and normal)
• Use setvol makedefault device DEVICENAME to set as default
• See changes in systemcontroll > sound

It is possible to implement an additional command to set the default communication device or modify the setdefault command to set both the communication and the "normal" audio device
It would complete this tool for any use case I can think of

It's still a really easy-to-use command-line tool though! Windows Audio always bugs me and I've wanted to automate it for ages. Even without this function a very helpful program!

Testet in Version 3.3 of setVol

Testet in Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 22H2

A user has reported that SetVol will not match on a device if it has a registration character (ALT 0174) ® in its device name and that character is not included when the device name is specified. The same will be true for a copyright character (ALT 0169) ©

For example, if your device name is: Mic (Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM))

SetVol requires that the name include the ® symbol in the device name.

In other words, specifying:
Mic (Microsoft LifeCam Cinema(TM))
will not work, but specifying:
Mic (Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM))
will work.

To resolve: the user noted that they could enter the ® character where required by pressing down the ALT key and while it is down type the following numbers on the keyboard 0174 and then once done release the ALT key.

Regardless, as this is not entirely intuitive I plan for a feature update to make the use of the registration character and the copyright character optional. In this way SetVol will, in a future release, recognize the device name with or without any registration and/or copyright characters specified in the device name.

In the interim you can get around the issue as described above.

Hi Rob, thanks for this useful util.

Any poss to add a new switch that would report back (boolean) if audio is currently playing on the system?

Windows has the "Volume Mixer" (C:\Windows\System32\SndVol.exe, or RClick on volume icon in systray) that displays a real-time volume meter... could setvol tap into that (or other Windows service) to report back whether audio is currently playing on the system?

For some reason I do not fully understand, this line don't behave as expected when the following commands are issued to SetVol:

setvol 40 balance 100:0
setvol 40 balance 100:01
setvol 40 balance 100:12
setvol 40 balance 100:23
...
setvol 40 balance 100:78
setvol 40 balance 100:89
setvol 40 balance 100:90

Basically, if the last entered value is made up of two successive digits (12, 23, 34, 45, etc.) or 0 it cause an error.

This does not apply to the following lines as shown below because the successive digit are not at the end of the string:

setvol 40 balance 100:45:0:0:100:100
setvol 40 balance 34:45:56:67:78:98

https://github.com/roblatour/setvol/blob/main/setvol/Module1.vb#L808 sets the colour to be white by default. This looks odd in consoles where the background colour is white.

I suggest that the default value of the param is null and set the colour to what is passed, or Console.ResetColor().

Ty for the great app though! 🎉🎉 I can finally persist volume balance! 😅