Per Application Volume Control

The one decent thing I have noticed about Vista is that it has an easy to use per-application volume control. I haven't seen anything like this in Leopard so far. Does anyone know if there is a free third-party application that can be used for this type of thing. I have looked in Audio Hijack Pro but it is a little more than I was looking for and much more complicated than the Vista application.

If there is you would find it at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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Is there anyway to disable "per application" volume control ?

Is there anyway to disable "per application" volume control !?
Keep it simple. You can leave per device existing, but per application is a big mess.
I need to spend a lot of time to found why am listening a sound if I decrease all my device volume.
I really hate it. It is not usefull for me, it just worsens my experience with Windows OS.
I always used Widnows, it was much better when this feature simply did not exist.

Hi,
It is by design, I’m afraid that there’s no way to change it.
You can right click the sound icon in the right-bottom corner, open volume mixer or volume control options to change the settings you want.
Regards,
Yolanda
Yolanda
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Per application volume control with alsa?

Hi
I have alsa sound platform and i am wondering if it is possible to control the volume of each application? I know it is possible with pulseaudio and OSS.

Hi,
below I dump .asoundrc I used some time ago. It allows to play
e.g. two audio streams at the same time with different volume:
aplay -D tnsrch1 someaudio.wav
aplay -D magnet1 otheraudio.wav
The .asoundrc has been created for a sound card with 4 capture and 4 playback channels.
pcm.!default pcm.channel1
pcm.snd_card0 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
ctl.snd_card0 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.dmix0 {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
ipc_key_add_uid true
slave.pcm "snd_card0"
slave {
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 48000
channels 4
format S32_LE
bindings {
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
ctl.dmix0 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.dsnoop0 {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 2048
ipc_key_add_uid true
slave.pcm "snd_card0"
slave {
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 48000
channels 4
bindings {
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
ctl.dsnoop0 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.channel1 {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.0 1
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dsnoop0"
ttable.0.0 1
ctl.channel1 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.channel2 {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.1 1
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dsnoop0"
ttable.0.1 1
ctl.channel2 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.channel3 {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.2 1
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dsnoop0"
ttable.0.2 1
ctl.channel3 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
pcm.channel4 {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.3 1
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "dsnoop0"
ttable.0.3 1
ctl.channel4 {
type hw
card 0
device 0
# Rufen port 2110
pcm.rufen {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.0.1 1
ttable.0.2 1
ttable.0.3 1
# Beam-Warnungen port 2001
pcm.beam {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix0"
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.0.1 1
ttable.0.2 1
ttable.0.3 1
# Magnet-Warnungen port 2003
# Magnet-Warnung channel, with software controls for each channel
# channel "magnet" should be the destination for magnet currentannopuncements
# "Magnet<N>" should be used to switch a channel on or off by setting the
# volume e.g.: amixer set Magnet1 80%
pcm.magnet1 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel1"
control {
name "Magnet1"
card 0
pcm.magnet2 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel2"
control {
name "Magnet2"
card 0
pcm.magnet3 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel3"
control {
name "Magnet3"
card 0
pcm.magnet_multi {
type multi
slaves.a.pcm "magnet1"
slaves.a.channels 1
slaves.b.pcm "magnet2"
slaves.b.channels 1
slaves.c.pcm "magnet3"
slaves.c.channels 1
bindings.0.slave a
bindings.0.channel 0
bindings.1.slave b
bindings.1.channel 0
bindings.2.slave c
bindings.2.channel 0
pcm.magnet {
type plug
slave.pcm "magnet_multi"
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.0.1 1
ttable.0.2 1
# Tunnel search port 2010
# Tunnes search channel, with software controls for each channel
# channel "tnsrch" should be the destination for tunnel search annopuncements
# "Tnsrch<N>" should be used to switch a channel on or offf by setting the
# volume e.g.: amixer set Tnsrch1 0%
pcm.tnsrch1 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel1"
control {
name "Tnsrch1"
card 0
pcm.tnsrch2 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel2"
control {
name "Tnsrch2"
card 0
pcm.tnsrch3 {
type softvol
slave.pcm "channel3"
control {
name "Tnsrch3"
card 0
pcm.tnsrch_multi {
type multi
slaves.a.pcm "tnsrch1"
slaves.a.channels 1
slaves.b.pcm "tnsrch2"
slaves.b.channels 1
slaves.c.pcm "tnsrch3"
slaves.c.channels 1
bindings.0.slave a
bindings.0.channel 0
bindings.1.slave b
bindings.1.channel 0
bindings.2.slave c
bindings.2.channel 0
pcm.tnsrch {
type plug
slave.pcm "tnsrch_multi"
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.0.1 1
ttable.0.2 1

Application Volume Control

So I don't understand why there isn't individual application volume control for OSX. I am certain I saw a post in 2007 about this and has yet to be a thing.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to FaceTime and watch netflix at the same time on my MBP (current gen) without my ear drums blowing out from the volume difference between the two apps.
I feel like it would take software developers 10 days to work it out for their native apps and publish this much needed patch.
SMH Apple.

If there is you would find it at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

Seperate application volume control

is there any way to control volume separately for different applications?
For instance, i want to be able to enable iTunes but mute firefox, so that i can listen to iTunes while visiting a sites with sound, and not have to listen to the website.
i imagine there is some freeware somewhere, i just haven't found it.
thanks.

If there is you would find it at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

Chromium takes over system volume control

Hi forum,
I'm using GNOME, ALSA (no PulseAudio or ESD), and Chromium on an i686 install. On my laptop (an Asus F3Jm), Master is a toggle control, and PCM is the slider that controls the system volume. The volume hotkeys on my laptop work correctly and control the PCM slider. However, when I open a Flash applet or an HTML5 video in Chromium, the PCM volume jumps to 100% and cannot be controlled by the hotkeys (not even muted); instead, the applet's volume control is the only way I have to control the volume. This is not an acceptable situation for me as some sites (for example Livestream) don't remember my volume setting and start off at 100% volume every time.
Well, sometimes. Once in a while it actually does work as expected (application volume controlled independent of system volume, and system volume can still be controlled via hotkeys), which is the part I find particularly confusing. I haven't figured out what the situations are where it does and doesn't take over the volume control.
(EDIT: It seems that it happens the first time, and only the first time, that I start Chromium after each system boot. So one "workaround" could be to never shut down or reboot...)
I don't believe the OSS emulation is being used, because I've unloaded and blacklisted the snd_*_oss modules and don't have alsa-oss installed. It's possible that Chromium is using the hw device instead of the default, but I don't know how to check for this or fix it. I don't have Firefox installed, but I suppose I could try it if someone thinks a comparison might be useful.
Package versions:
alsa-lib 1.0.22-1
chromium 4.0.249.78-3
flashplugin 10.0.42.34-1
<your requested package here>
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Last edited by tarpman (2010-02-11 17:02:44)

ALSA doesn't support per application volume control, which would explain the behavior. That behavior, however, is still incorrect, as normally applications respect the volume level and don't overwrite it without user intervention.
A simple solution would be to switch to (at least for me) more advanced OSSv4 or use pulse audio (which I personally dislike).
You should file a bug report for chromium (or check whether you got some settings wrong).

Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Software Issue: Volume Control, Speaker Settings, Equalizer, C

I installed my ZS Platinum back in December, everything worked fine for 2 months, then I started to hit trouble.
First, the driver began hanging when I took my headphones in/out, resulting in no sound from either output. I updated the drivers and this problem went away.
Then, I was gaming and all the sound stopped working. Reboots did nothing, so I tried to reinstall the drivers. This is how the problems began. The first time I uninstalled all my creative stuff, downloaded the newest drivers, and installed that. I didn't realize that I couldn't download all the bells and whistles off the drivers page.
So, I unistalled those drivers, and used my CD to install the drivers and MediaSource. I encountered the PLXcore.plx error during install and every time I booted Windows. Also, none of the extra applications (Volume Control, Speaker Settings, Graphic Equalizer, CMSS) would run. I uninstalled, reinstalled and tried again.
This is where I am now. I chose not to install MediaSource this time. Again, I encountered the PLXcore.plx error during install, but I'm not receiving the error when Windows boots (because I didn't install MediaSource?). But still, most of the little applications don't run. I see the Volume Control icon in my task bar, and if I press the mute button on the keyboard the symbol changes, but when I click on the icon, nothing happens. "Creative Volume Con..." flashes on the taskbar, and a 0px by 0px white box appears above the task bar. If I click anywhere else, they disappear. The Graphic Equalizer, Speaker Settings, and CMSS dialog do the same thing when opened. THX Console does not.
Also, the on screen display for volume no longer pops up. Is this part of MediaSource? Should I install MediaSource even if I don't plan to use it's
Running XP SP2 on an AMD X2 4200+ with the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.
EDIT: Thought I'd add in another problem I have:
I usally run my DISH reciever's sound through my computer through the Auxillary 2 RCA connections on my front panel. When I boot World of Warcraft or Warcraft III (Both Blizzard games), the sound through this connection becomes very tinny and reverby. If I alt+tab out of the game, adjust the speaker setting (5. -> Headphones -> 5.) the issue goes away. But each time I start one of these games, the problem returns. Any ideas? Known problem?Message Edited by Cuttlefish on 03--200703:9 PM

I'm sorry I can't help but I have the exact same problem. I have no Speaker, EAX or graphic eq settings. No telling what else don't work. I have tryied 0 different ways of removing and loading it back with any and all updats and without and no success. I hope someone here can help us.

[Pulseaudio] Set volume per application at start

Hey, I use mplayer as a wallpaper playing movies, anime, music vids, etc, but I want to start it muted, so then if I wanna watch I just have to unmute it.
Pulseaudio can control volume per application but I can't seem to find a way to define the volume level by cmd, except for "Master"

Thank you both.
About the first one looks interesting but I really don't understand too much the use of pactl, I mean how can I get the sink number?
About mplayer is fine, actaully I do start it with "-volume 0" parameter, the problem about this is that it applies to every movie so if I watch a video with sound on, the next one will start again with sound off and I have to be "unmuting" for every video.

Independent Volume Control - control by Application - recommendations?

I need an application that allows me to control volume of applications independently.
What I need is to be able to a) make Garageband louder, because it's super quiet, and b) make browsers quiet (e.g. for noisy ads). Bonus would being able to make Screenflow louder and Mail quieter.
Can anyone give me recommendations? (Paid app, free app, whatever actually works.)
I'm on Lion right now but will probably upgrade to Mountain Lion soon. MacBook Pro 2012.
Thank you,
~Myra (Ignolopi)

That is sort of what I mean, but like I want to mute everything but one application in the case of an accidental sound, i.e. I want iTunes running with full volume, but volume off on Safari in the event I stumble upon a webpage with sound. I'm running a presentation but would like the ability to use other functions of the comptuer without worrying sound will accidently be made. In other words, most applications I'm talking about don't really have volume control, like Safari, Finder, Mail, iChat, ect. without setting it to never make sound or turning the volume off completely.

Volume Control for Application

I am looking for an appliaction that can allow me to mute certain applications at a time. Audio Hijack Pro™ - allows this functionality, but is really an application to do recordings, and as a major app is rather expensive. Does anyone know of a little tool, free or paid that allows me to do what I can with the volume control in Windows?
Thanks for any and all replies.

I'm the same I've got my E63 and according to the tutorial, one can change the volume using Fn + Scroll Up/Down keys while on the home screen. It doesn't work.
anyone have this problem?

Missing 5.1 volume controls in windows xp

) I have audigy se card, tried both 620 and 62 driver. The thing is that I dont have volume controls for all channels when set to 5. speakers. There is allways only master volume, that controls left and right speaker. Is there any way to get volume controls per channel? I will try SB P7X Series Support Pack 2.0 and see if that fixes anything. OS is windows xp sp3.
Thanks in advance.

Also, i do not know if it's of interest, but the reinstall did not reinstall AAS. It was there when I followed the initial uninstall phase.
Yeah, that's of interest. If AAS isn't installed, Safari shouldn't launch. (I'm more used to it producing launch error messages, rather than an error-message-free launch error, though.)
Let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.
Does it install properly for you? If so, does iTunes launch properly now?
If instead you get an error message during the install, let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

Sound Blaster Zx SPDIF Volume control

Hello, First post so please don't crucify me, but could somebody help me in understanding why I'm not able to adjust the volume when using SPDIF optical out to my Dennon amp on Zx?
What I do not understand is that if I open the Windows 8.1 sound mixer I can adjust the volume for each application? Why not the mixed volume?
Now, I guess the answer is that there is no 'final mix' stage after the sound is send to the sound card from windows and therefore SPDIF is limited when in 'pass thru' mode but really this is just semantics and a driver limitation.. would it be that hard for Creative (or MS) to design the driver or sound subsytem in such a way that the volume could be adjusted in windows rather than on my amp or per application? It seems fairly fundamental and renders my windows remote pretty useless.
Have I misunderstood the situation or is there some other way I can get this to work?

Ok I think this has to be a bug.. I am doing some more investigating and the behaviour of the volume control does not make sense. I have some screenshots below, its hard to explain but hopefully I can manage to do so!
In the first scenario, changing the speaker volume up and down does NOT change the volume coming from the speakers, as you move the main Speaker volume slider the Application sliders move up and down but do not change.. example
Vol at 50% from speakers..
vol1.jpg
Move main slider down, NO CHANGE, note that application slider is changing but still not changing output volume (even though changing application slider with mouse does work)
vol2png.jpg
Change volume of application and suddenly volume changes to louder
vol3.jpg
Again going back and turning main slider down doesnt change the volume...
So you can get to a situation where the volume for the application says very low and its actually blaring out, then just clicking on the slider suddenly drops the volume.
This has to be a bug? Does anyone else have the same behaviour as this?
Attached Images
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How can I set up a custom keyboard shortcut for volume control?

Hi all,
I use my black MacBook at work, connected to an external monitor and external keyboard. I'm looking for a way to set up the F buttons on my external keyboard as volume control, just as they do on my laptop keyboard. Looking for F3 to F5 to be volume mute, down, and up, respectively.
I tried going into Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences but since there is no menu item for volume control I can't seem to add it. Anyone know how I can go about doing this or what I'm missing?
Thanks
Mike

paste the following into Applescrpt Editor (it's in /Applications/Utilities)
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
set curVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
-- work out the new setting
if curVolume < 96 then
set newVolume to curVolume + 5
else
-- can't go over 100
set newVolume to 100
end if
-- and apply it
set volume output volume newVolume</pre>
this script will increase volume by 5 (out of 100) any time you run it. you can adjust this of course. save the script somewhere.
You can use a 3rd part app launcher to bind a keyboard shortcut to it. I use Butler. there are many others: Quicksilver, ikeys, quickeys, Spark, Launchbar.
this will work the fastest.
If you don't want to use 3rd party tools for this you can make a service using automator but that might be a bit slower than the first option. open automator. it will give you a pulldown screen wiuth the choice of what you want to make. choose "service". set it to receive no input and be available in all applications. add the following "run apple script" action to the service
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on run {input, parameters}
set curVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
-- work out the new setting
if curVolume < 96 then
set newVolume to curVolume + 5
else
-- can't go over 100
set newVolume to 100
end if
-- and apply it
set volume output volume newVolume
end run</pre>
save the service, go to keyboard system preferences->keyboard shortcuts->services and make a shortcut for the service you just created.

Volume control buttons not working with new usb keyboard

Hi all,
I recently replaced the bluetooth keyboard that came with my iMac with the usb keyboard (the long aluminium one, with the number block). Typing is no problem, but the volume control keys dont seem to work with this keyboard as I was used to with the bluetooth keyboard: max vol, increase/decrease and vol. off dont operate with any of the keys (f, alt, str, cmd, shift). Only thing I can do is get a view of the running programs or make the current application vanish from the screen.
Tried to change the keyboard setting in preferences for the F1-12 keys - made no change.
help is very much appreciated.
Thanks

I was able to fix this bug by upgrading to OS X 10.6.8.
Very strange that a) it was a problem in the first place and b) that the upgrade did not happen automatically
Thanks very much to Haggibbor, who alerted me to that possibility. Since I read this in a thread I did not open myself, I unfortunately do not know how to let him have the 10 points I would like him to receive. (Hints for this newbie are very welcome.)
Problem of volume control keys is now solved.

How do I get the Play, Stop, Volume controls to appear in my embedded Flash object?

Hello,
I want to show .swf or .flv videos on my website--like
youtube.com. I want to use the standard Flash Player object
embedded in a web page, however, I cannot seem to find the exact
params that make the standard controls appear (ie, Play, Stop,
Pause, Volume, etc). I just want to show a video and have the Play,
Stop, Pause, Volume controls visible at the bottom. What do I need
to do to get these controls to appear?
Here's my current code:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="800" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="
http://www.sitename.com/flash/dt_flash.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="
http://www.sitename.com/flash/dt_flash.swf"
quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800"
height="600"></embed>
</object>
Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
Jason

Sorry! It's AS3. A typo on my part but, thanks for answering the post. This is the correct answer that worked for me. Also, the answer came from Kglad in the AS3 forum
Assign your component an instance name (if it doesn't already have one), eg flv and in the frame that contains that component add:
flv.addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE,removedF);
function removedF(e:Event):void{
flv.stop();

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