Comments on: Volume Control Reloaded – Sidebar Gadget

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:28:29 +0000

I would like to know why this cool gadget does not work for windows 7? can it be fixed? or there is any other version for windows 7?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:22:48 +0000

Just a suggestion: Enter desired volume level numerically using the numeric keypad and incrementally using the arrows and the PGUP and PGDN keys.

By: M03

M03 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:04:47 +0000

Gutes Gadget, leider habe ich ein Problem: Ich kann die Lautstärke der 5.1 Anlage nicht ändern da kommt immer “not found”, ich benutze die On-Board Soundkarte von meinem Mainboard ASRock M3A770DE, und ich habe Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Über Danke schonmal.
MfG

By: Mojo

Mojo — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:44:22 +0000

nice tool bro. thanks alot.

By: mkos

mkos — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:12:22 +0000

Sehr schönes Gadget, vielen Dank! Einen Vorschlag hätte ich noch: Ich suche eine Möglichkeit, nicht die Gesamtlautstärke zu ändern, sondern den Eingang meiner Soundkarte. Ich habe bislang keine Möglichkeit gefunden, das in Windows 7 umzustellen. Der Mixer hat natürlich diesen Fader, aber es sind immer mehrere Klicks, um erst den Mixer zu öffnen und dann die Lautstärke des Eingangs zu verändern…

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:23:20 +0000

Hallo!
Gibt’s eine Möglichkeit, ein Gadget heran zu bekommen oder selbst zu entwickeln, das einem von allen aktiven Sound Channels den Sound-Level anzeigt? Quasi ein Peak/Level/VU-Meter für 6 Kanäle.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:36:59 +0000

Hi,

I like your Volume Control Reloaded gadget (running it on Windows 7). but I have one issue with it, which I hope you will look into.

WITHOUT Volume Control running alongside my half-dozen other gadgets, the CPU usage of sidebar.exe (the host app for gadgets), as show in Task Manager, is only 3 to 4 percent. This includes apps to monitor CPU, GPU, and network activity (with scrolling graphs), as well as weather, time, and calendar gadgets.

When I add Volume Control, the CPU usage jumps to 6 to 12 percent, averaging around 8-9 percent.

All by itself, Volume Control uses 6 to 9 percent of my CPU (running under sidebar.exe). And this is regardless of whether or not the volume meter is showing any activity. This is greater CPU usage than all of my other desktop gadgets combined, and they’re collectively doing MUCH more work.

It’s not a huge issue, but it still puzzles me why a simple volume control gadget should use so much CPU time.

Karl

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:06:26 +0000

ADD PREAMP!!!! and it would be PERFECT!!!

ADD Equalizer, I WOULD EVEN DONATE!!!

SOMEONE make EQUALIZER GADGET!!! been looking for one for years.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:08:18 +0000

Sers

schönes APPS von dir, is man ja gewohnt, nur ma ne Frage: kannst du hier auch noch den 10 BandEQ intergrieren?

grüße

By: Zet

Zet — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:53:23 +0000

Best looking volume control gadget so far BUT it has a serious functional issue: when I click somewhere on the volume grid, the volume only increases by 4% or decreases by 6%. It would have been nice to set the volume directly where I clicked on the grid.

By: vik2or

vik2or — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:12:28 +0000

Hi, i found your page when i was looking for a ati temperature monitor. And i have to say that i love your gadgets.

This gadget especially, i was looking for something like this for a while now. I have only 1 problem with it. I have 2 sound cards an integrated RealtekHD and an Creative X-fi and i frequently swap between them, and your gadget remains on the first default saund card. Could u make it that it detects if the default sound card is change and update or, if that’s to hard, to make a way to change the default sound card form the gadget.

Keep up the good work, your gadgets are awesome

By: Invisible

Invisible — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:43:31 +0000

Tausend Dank für deine genialen Gadgets!
Habe schon ewig diverse Gadgets von dir laufen, aber dieses hier noch gar nicht gesehen gehabt.
Die Profile sind der Hammer! Habe nämlich das gleiche Problem wie du: Teufel CEM und Wechsel von Couch zu Schreibtisch.
Und Creative schafft es nicht Profile in ihre Treiber einzubauen…
Zu geil

By: Etsuo Ando

Etsuo Ando — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:52:50 +0000

Very Good

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:56:42 +0000

这里是个不错的地方
it is a good place

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:55:57 +0000

lz,u’d better describe ur tools in english,i think it is a better way to spread ur toos.haha
best wishs 2 u!

By: fspm

fspm — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:03:00 +0000

great gadget. Orbmu2k, is it possible to change profiles via command line? thank you

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:35:55 +0000

Hi! Existiert eine Möglichkeit, den Ausschlag, also den integrierten Peakmeter auf 6 Kanäle zu erweitern, sodass man den Ausschlag aller Kanäle bei 5.1-Wiedergabe sieht? Ich finde keinen ordentlichen Software-Peakmeter/vu-Meter, der das macht…
Thx!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:05:03 +0000

Hi, just wanted to say your Volume Control Reloaded gadget is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for.

One question though: I have two sound cards in my Vista laptop – the built-in stereo sound, and also a Creative Labs 5.1 USB sound card. I find that your gadget isn’t able to change to whatever sound card is currently the default one. If I load the Sidebar while the 5.1 USB card is attached and is default, then your gadget will work nicely on that sound card (mute, change volume, set presets etc) – but if I later disconnect the USB sound card so that my computer changes to the built-in sound, your gadget doesn’t identify this, and so it no longer works – nothing happens when I try to change the volume or change mute etc. It’s still locked to the USB card. And the same thing happens the other way around. It depends on which sound card was enabled and default when the Sidebar was loaded.

Is there any way to fix this, so that it changes to whatever the current sound card is? That would be wonderful!

Thanks!

By: ae3210

ae3210 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:56:53 +0000

这个不错

By: Bayat

Bayat — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:59:39 +0000

Epic! I can control left/right without opening control pannel.