pavucontrol
Mirror of the PulseAudio Volume Control application (for bug reports and pull requests go to the website!) (by pulseaudio)
pulsemixer
CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio (by GeorgeFilipkin)
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| pavucontrol | pulsemixer | |
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| 86 | 661 | |
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| 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pavucontrol
Posts with mentions or reviews of pavucontrol.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-10.
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Perks of having a LinuxAudio setup!
PulseAudio: PulseAudio-ALSA-JACK Bridge (Comes out of the box with Cadence!) pavucontrol The rest of PulseAudio magic is done by playing with your default.pa/system.pa files ;)
pulsemixer
Posts with mentions or reviews of pulsemixer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-02.
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Pulsemixer is the one I love. It's a TUI alternative to Pavucontrol. https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer
Honorable mention is Ncmpcpp, which is a TUI frontend for MPD.
- pulsemixer: TUI alternative to pavucontrol
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How do I reduce the volume of an app that only plays sound while in focus?
I'm not sure which desktop or window manager you use, but you could try using a drop-down terminal like Guake and running pulsemixer on a tab in it.
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Switching between audio output devices easily
Not a solution for switching audio devices from polybar, but if you're currently using pavucontrol, I highly recommend switching to pulsemixer: https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer
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Perks of having a LinuxAudio setup!
Mixers: alsamixer (always used) pulsemixer (always used) jack_mixer (autostarts on startup with customized default settings) qasmixer (very rarely) Non-Mixer(very rarely)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pavucontrol and pulsemixer you can also consider the following projects:
noise-repellent - Lv2 suite of plugins for broadband noise reduction
jack2 - jack2 codebase
Spicetify - Spice up your Spotify client
cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
ncmpcpp - Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc
pajackconnect - Make JACK Work With PulseAudio
kunst - Download and display album art or display embedded album art
Python-Linux-Soundboard - Soundboard made in Python for use on Linux
mocp - Music On Console Player
indicator-sound-switcher - Sound input/output selector indicator for Linux
pavucontrol vs noise-repellent
pulsemixer vs noise-repellent
pavucontrol vs jack2
pulsemixer vs Spicetify
pavucontrol vs cava
pulsemixer vs cava
pavucontrol vs ncmpcpp
pulsemixer vs pajackconnect
pavucontrol vs kunst
pulsemixer vs Python-Linux-Soundboard
pavucontrol vs mocp
pulsemixer vs indicator-sound-switcher