I love sndvol for volume control in Windows compared to other stuff (default win 11 one is awful) but it has one issue.

say you have overall volume set to 50%... if you accidentally increase the volume of an output to 51%.. global volume goes up too.

the volume per program/stream should be always, a percentage of the overall volume, not 100% percent of what is available overall
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TLDR volume sliders per program should go 0 to 100% regardless of where system volume is set and that should be the percentage of system.

@LottieVixen iirc the new volume mixer in settings works like that

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@LottieVixen oh, I completely forget I run it but if you want a really nice sound mixer in the task bar eartrumpet.app is the goat

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@noiob used to use it years ago, trying not to get attached to anything windows...but yeah I should have thought about this

but also the comparison at first was just sndvol (mostly) being better than any other native to windows thing other than this one feature

@noiob oh wow this is kinda flashy now but.. this is what microsoft should have done... wow this is beautiful

@noiob pretty much reminds me of...whatever steamdeck uses by default (and kde plasma + pulseaudio iirc I had on my desktop)

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