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It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™ (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If you have a desktop and not a laptop, it's always a great idea to get a separate sound controller. Either a dac/amp for nice headphones, volume controls on a wireless headset, or even buy a sound mixer like the rodecaster duo so you can assign independent applications to each physical slider on the mixer. I do that last one and it's such a quality of life improvement if you use your PC a lot.

All of these options can't be seen from Spotify.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't think a site can view your system volume. They can however see if a tab is specifically muted https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/MutedInfo

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was not expecting that mixer to be nearly $1,000 lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.

    You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    you can assign independent applications > I know you can do this in windows without needing an extra sound controller it's in 'Settings>system>Sound>Volume Mixer'

    Yeah, but separate physical controls are beneficial when you have full-screen apps, are busy, don't want to lose your place, or if you need to do it more frequently and quickly than the sound mixer allows.

    Linux largely has this too, but in both OS's it's less convenient than reaching over and quickly pressing a button or sliding a slider in many scenarios.

    Of course if you just need to edit these infrequently then that's a perfectly good solution and there's no reason to spend any money at all.

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