Change Volume of Active Application about volume-control HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion!
I have implemented active-application-specific actions as of c19a22b

Things that could still be improved:

• Notification window does not appear when changing active application volume/mute state.
• (EDIT) Some multi-process applications just don't work with this method (fixed)

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I backported this feature to v5.2.5 as an addon.

Installation Steps

1. Download & extract this archive: Addon.ActiveApplicationActions.dll.zip Addon.ActiveApplicationActions.dll.zip (v2)
2. Place Addon.ActiveApplicationActions.dll in .../AppData/Local/radj307/Addons (create any missing directories)

Tip: You can quickly open the .../AppData/Local directory by pressing Win+R and entering %localappdata%

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Great stuff! Thanks for getting back this fast!

Sadly I need to report that the addon doesn't seem to do anything. I set the addon up, bound some hotkeys to Active Application Volume, enabled them. And... Nothing happens.

So, I am on 5.2.5 on Windows 11. Nothing of note in the logs (set to DEBUG). Tried rebooting.

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Make sure you activate the window you're trying to control first. The easiest way to do that is to just click on the window.
This technique should work with pretty much any window that outputs audio, but please let me know if it doesn't work for something specific. (I imagine Discord probably doesn't play nice with this)

Edit: I have found that a few multi-process applications just don't work with this method at all (Discord, Deezer). This is probably because they have separate processes handling the window & audio output.
I'm looking into a more robust method that will hopefully fix this issue.

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Yes, you're quite right. The addon doesn't work in Chrome, but it does in Firefox. I do get a
[WARN] Session '7500:chrome' doesn't exist; searching for near-matches...

I think those warnings are at startup, though.

I have tried your rc. What I am trying to achieve can be done by using the targets, however. I should play with some multi-processes, though. It is slightly a bit more hassle to setup as you need to provide multiple targets. Got a release-date for it set yet? I can fiddle around to see if I find anything else.

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I improved the robustness of finding the active application by falling back to searching for the foreground application's process name if the PID wasn't found.

Try replacing the other DLL with this one: Addon.ActiveApplicationActions.dll.zip (v2)

These changes are also included in the main branch as of 967c587

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Included in 6.0.0-pr3 (Preview 3) and up

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