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I may be misremembering, but I have a feeling the per-app volume mixer was available all the way back in Windows XP. Possibly sound-card dependent? An app call

by adnrw 12y ago

I may be misremembering, but I have a feeling the per-app volume mixer was available all the way back in Windows XP. Possibly sound-card dependent? An app called Jack OS X does the job on Mac: http://www.jackosx.com/ http://www.jackosx.com/

vertex-four 12y ago
JACK is a huge amount more than just a per-app volume mixer, it's basically a virtual audio cabling system. Very handy if you've ever had a need to pipe audio between applications or manipulate audio streams from arbitrary apps. It's also a complete pain in the arse to get running on Linux, due to the ALSA+Pulse stack being in the way.
- yellowapple 12y ago
  If your goal is to use Linux for audio production (or some other use case where JACK would be necessary), it helps to use a distro like Musix or Ubuntu Studio that already takes care of that "get running" part for you. JACK is pretty complex, but infinitely useful; one of those things I end up installing long before I decide I actually need it.
teh_klev 12y ago
Per app volume control arrived in Vista. Previously you had a single master volume control in the notification area which if you double clicked would open the sound mixer control panel. That panel on XP (and before) only permitted per-device volume control. For reference see [1] at around 04:00 and Larry Osterman's posts from September and December 2005 [2][3]. [1]: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Steve-Ball-Learning-about-Audio-in-Windows-Vista http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Steve-Ball-Learnin... [2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/09/19/471346.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/09/19/471... [3]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/12/15/504158.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/12/15/504...

6 ms·

I may be misremembering, but I have a feeling the per-app volume mixer was available all the way back in Windows XP. Possibly sound-card dependent? An app call

by adnrw 12y ago

vertex-four 12y ago
JACK is a huge amount more than just a per-app volume mixer, it's basically a virtual audio cabling system. Very handy if you've ever had a need to pipe audio between applications or manipulate audio streams from arbitrary apps. It's also a complete pain in the arse to get running on Linux, due to the ALSA+Pulse stack being in the way.
- yellowapple 12y ago
  If your goal is to use Linux for audio production (or some other use case where JACK would be necessary), it helps to use a distro like Musix or Ubuntu Studio that already takes care of that "get running" part for you. JACK is pretty complex, but infinitely useful; one of those things I end up installing long before I decide I actually need it.
teh_klev 12y ago
Per app volume control arrived in Vista. Previously you had a single master volume control in the notification area which if you double clicked would open the sound mixer control panel. That panel on XP (and before) only permitted per-device volume control. For reference see [1] at around 04:00 and Larry Osterman's posts from September and December 2005 [2][3]. [1]: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Steve-Ball-Learning-about-Audio-in-Windows-Vista http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Steve-Ball-Learnin... [2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/09/19/471346.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/09/19/471... [3]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/12/15/504158.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/12/15/504...