[RANT] The Most ANNOYING Thing About Windows Audio

Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “[RANT] The Most ANNOYING Thing About Windows Audio”.
You know what really overcooks my ribeye to an inedible extra well done, how horribly inconvenient windows audio settings have been for years. I mean sure turning the volume up and down typically isn’t hard. In fact, you can often do it from your keyboard, but trying to do just about anything else is such a chore, even something as simple as switching your output, say from your desktop speakers to a pair of headphones often requires going into a separate, sound settings app And instructing your sound chip to treat your headphone out and your speaker out as two separate outputs now once you’ve done, that switching between the two is just a matter of opening up the volume slider clicking on the name of the output above it and then clicking The speakers that you want, but it isn’t very obvious how to do this as you more or less, have to know that the menu exists beforehand i mean the only hint you get is a little arrow above the volume slider fair enough, though i’ve got that memorized And then windows 11 rolls around and microsoft, for whatever reason decides hey, you know what users really need right now for the sound options to be even more of a pain now clicking the notification area brings up a quick settings menu that isn’t even audio specific with Another tiny arrow next to the volume slider that is somehow even less obvious than the one in windows 10.. Then you’ve got the fact that it’s also not super clear how to adjust the volume for individual programs and with how many things on our pcs can be constantly screeching at us.

These days, i would say, that’s a pretty important feature to have quick access to, especially if you’ve gotten tired of how auto playing video ads inside your web browser can start all the crap out of you if you aren’t ready for them in windows, 10 and 11, That option isn’t even located anywhere in that volume slider menu you instead have to right click and select open volume mixer where you’re then greeted with the list of individual programs and their volume levels. Windows 11 finally, did ditch that old school looking volume mixer that’s been basically unchanged since the days of windows 7 in favor of something more modern, but it’s still an annoying treasure hunt. If you don’t know exactly what to click on now, i’m going to keep ranting, but first i got to thank brilliant for sponsoring this.

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In fact, there are actually third party solutions out there that do a much better job than what windows offers by default. One such app is called ear trumpet not to be confused with the old school hearing aid ear trumpet who did not sponsor this video offers. Quick access to a seamless, looking volume mixer for easy, individual app control, even allowing you to change your sound output on a per app basis, which you can do in windows. But again it’s hidden beneath a couple of submenus. It was developed by a team of only three people, so you got ta think it wouldn’t be that hard for microsoft to make the built-in audio experience a little more streamlined, especially considering that the team behind deer trumpet is actually made up of ex-microsoft employees, maybe their Workers are just prohibited from having too many good ideas at one time, but you’re not prohibited from watching more of our videos, leaving a like or a dislike or subscribing yeah subscribing is good. .