pavolume VS pulseaudio-ctl

Compare pavolume vs pulseaudio-ctl and see what are their differences.

pavolume

Simple command-line volume control for PulseAudio with libnotify messages (by sseemayer)

pulseaudio-ctl

Control pulseaudio volume from the shell or mapped to keyboard shortcuts. No need for alsa-utils. (by graysky2)
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pavolume pulseaudio-ctl
1 2
32 274
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0.8 0.0
9 months ago almost 2 years ago
Python Shell
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pavolume

Posts with mentions or reviews of pavolume. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.

pulseaudio-ctl

Posts with mentions or reviews of pulseaudio-ctl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.
  • Is there any way to change audio volume using plasma-pa from terminal?
    3 projects | /r/kde | 18 Aug 2022
    You want to use something like this or this.
  • Show HN: Push-to-Talk for PulseAudio Ported to Rust
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2021
    Thanks for the kind words.

    Actually, the Pulseaudio interaction is minimal (just muting-unmuting the mic), I farm out all the work to pulseaudio-ctl (which is just a shell script calling pacmd).

    I actually opened an issue on that project to support PipeWire, but the CLI is not exactly the same. From what I can tell, this is blocked on some `pacmd` missing features on the PipeWire equivalent.

    https://github.com/graysky2/pulseaudio-ctl/issues/68

    Technically, `pw-cli` could grow those features or some processing would be done on top of `pulseaudio-ctl`, and PipeWire support would be included in this project "for free".

What are some alternatives?

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