pulsemixer VS indicator-sound-switcher

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.

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.

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

Mixers: alsamixer (always used) pulsemixer (always used) jack_mixer (autostarts on startup with customized default settings) qasmixer (very rarely) Non-Mixer(very rarely)

for sound options it will only list sources that exist, so plugging in a device - to a line out, to a headphones port, to an onboard hdmi - should add populated options to the sound settings tab. I'm a fan of - https://yktoo.com/en/software/sound-switcher-indicator/ - for a source selector from the desktop, and for pulse audio options for simultaneous output.

i found this sound switcher - https://yktoo.com/en/software/sound-switcher-indicator/ - very handy. I often switch between headphones and speakers, and using pavucontrol for outputting to both.

I was using indicator-sound-switcher to toggle my sinks. One nice thing about it is that it makes it simple to set hotkeys to toggle devices.

I use sound switcher indicator

I found this tool, hope it's helpful.

The only thing close to what I need is this : https://yktoo.com/en/software/sound-switcher-indicator/ but with that I still can't see what output is selected.

You should check the dependencies. This source file for example imports gi and then uses that to load GTK libraries. The required packages for this to work should be in depends.