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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.
Interesting, I actually just adjust the volume knob on my desktop speakers so I didn’t think of this when I wrote the meme.
But now I kinda wanna see if I can hijack this monitoring it does and fake 100% volume to the application at all times…hmm welp to the mile long project list it goes!
I think if you just use voicemeeter and set it to a monitor as output that should work
What if the volume is really low? That’s how I do it
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
qaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think a site can view your system volume. They can however see if a tab is specifically muted developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/MutedInfo
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think the Spotify application may be able to, I assume this is what OP was talking about.
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They might also be talking about muting volume in spotify app but im not really sure who does that in the first place
Xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
afaik Spotify Cannot see if a tab is muted. The method you’re referring to is part of the tabs API, which can only be used by extensions that have been given permission to the tabs api
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I was not expecting that mixer to be nearly $1,000 lol
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah that one is pricey, but you can certainly get cheap ones for a fraction of the price. Most people don’t need the one I have, and smaller ones can serve the same purpose.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and 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.)
olicvb@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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’
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.