Windows 10 Volume OSD

[SlipperyPete]

Normally Windows 10 has a Volume OSD that looks like this:

It allows you to play/pause, skip or rewind tracks and control system volume

 

i was wondering if there was a way to have a Volume OSD that allows me to control system volume and application volume.

I created an image of what i would like to see (it doesnt actually exist)

 

my question essentially is... can i do this and how  

[Neutrideo]

8 minutes ago, SlipperyPete said:

Normally Windows 10 has a Volume OSD that looks like this:

It allows you to play/pause, skip or rewind tracks and control system volume

 

i was wondering if there was a way to have a Volume OSD that allows me to control system volume and application volume.

I created an image of what i would like to see (it doesnt actually exist)

 

my question essentially is... can i do this and how  

That sounds very interesting, I will watch this thread. i want this!

[Tabs]

The OSD only has the ability to control system volume, since it's intended to be used with remotes (infrared/Bluetooth) or keyboard controls (including tablet hardware buttons), where the volume control is just a dumb rocker for up/down - having multiple volumes to control on the OSD wouldn't work for the situation it's designed for. The main argument is that it would cause confusion having multiple controls, and would be ambiguous which volume control was actually being changed without overloading a simple OSD with much more information than needed.

 

Depending on the application you're using, it may be possible to manually set keyboard shortcuts to individually control application volume, but it wouldn't be system-wide, and the OSD wouldn't reflect it unless the app had its own. 

 

For reference, this decision to "reduce confusion"  also why Microsoft changed the default applet that opens when you click the speaker icon in the taskbar from volume mixer to just generic system volume, as it apparently confused "normal people" having multiple volume controls by default.

[SlipperyPete]

59 minutes ago, Tabs said:

The OSD only has the ability to control system volume ~snip~

i see... are there any software controllers that you can recommend that may accomplish what i am looking for?

[Tabs]

3 minutes ago, SlipperyPete said:

i see... are there any software controllers that you can recommend that may accomplish what i am looking for?

I'm sorry, I don't know of anything like that. Theoretically, the actual Windows CoreAudio API's don't prevent it - but to my knowledge nobody has made anything like that. A quick search just found the official MSDN documentation on how the API works, and some examples of system volume only OSD's - but development of those seems to have halted pretty much as soon as Windows shipped with it's own in Windows 7.

 

If you do find one though, at least one other person here seems to be interested in it, so let us know. 

[SlipperyPete]

13 hours ago, Tabs said:

I'm sorry, I don't know of anything like that. Theoretically, the actual Windows CoreAudio API's don't prevent it - but to my knowledge nobody has made anything like that. A quick search just found the official MSDN documentation on how the API works, and some examples of system volume only OSD's - but development of those seems to have halted pretty much as soon as Windows shipped with it's own in Windows 7.

 

If you do find one though, at least one other person here seems to be interested in it, so let us know. 

i will. thank you very much for the info