...You can open the Volume Mixer by right-clicking on the speaker icon in the system tray and selecting Open Volume Mixer. This application is an automatic version of that applet.
Common usage examples
- Pausing your audio player (e.g. foobar2000) whenever any other application makes a noise,
- and resuming playback once the noise is gone. This enables you to keep your audio player running in the background at all times.
- Briefly muting all applications while a notification is playing.
- Forcing application's volume to a set level
- Automatically lowering volume during night
- Launching processes/popups when some application makes noise