It's right here. Requires Columns UI v0.1.2 beta 4 or newer.

Note that this component is a completely independent implementation which I assembled today. Enjoy.


Change log:

1.4:

• Updated to UI Extension API v5.0.0.
• Removed scrollwheel hook

1.32:

• Fixed a lame bug in the configuration dialog. Configured mixer device ID is zero for internal and 1-n, for hardware, where n is the number of hardware mixers in the system. Whoops, it was checking this range improperly, so if device == n, it reset to zero. Kind of made it guaranteed to reset if you only have one hardware mixer.

1.31:

• Added error logging, the console should always pop up on most serious errors.

1.3:

• Volume control catches scrollwheel messages, hopefully most of the time.

1.21:

• Fixed a bug in the trackbar WM_MOUSEMOVE override which only happened to manifest when using the internal volume in combination with foo_osd's volume change pop-up.

1.2:

• Internal volume is now controlled on a logarithmic scale.
• Added annoying warning to preferences for internal mixer.

1.1:

• Added hotkeys for volume up/down/mute, for whichever mixer you have the component configured to use. Rather redundant for internal volume, mostly useful for external mixers.

1.0:

• Initial release.

Thats great, im sure alot of people will use it.

It would be even nicer with the possibility to use keyboard shortcuts.

Works fine with the standard foobar hotkeys for me.

Uploaded v1.1.

• Added hotkeys for volume up/down/mute, for whichever mixer you have the component configured to use. Rather redundant for internal volume, mostly useful for external mixers.

Perhaps you should do two additional things:

1: Make an own thread for this component so everyone can find it easily

2: Add a warning in big red blinking letters to the configpage which says "Adjusting the internal volume can cause lag!" or something to stop people from complaining about.

3: Add an option to choose between linear and exponential volume control so "half as loud" (i.e. -6dB) is at the halfway point of the slider, not just 1/16 of the slider lenght away from the right; getting the volume "just right" would be much easier that way...

np: Funkstörung - Mr Important (ft. Rob Sonic of Sonicsum) (Disconnected)

Uploaded v1.2.

• Internal volume is now controlled on a logarithmic scale.
• Added annoying warning to preferences for internal mixer.

W-H-O-A - now that was almost Just-In-Time...

np: Massive Attack - Special Cases (Luomo Remix) (Nohuume)

Excuse me if I have missed something, but where do I enable it? I don't get any volume control in the main userinterface...

Have latest 1.2 volume control
Columns UI 0.1.2 alpha 4
Foobar 0.8.3

No errors reported while loading plugins. I can in preferences choose which device to control.

What have I missed?

You can add/remove it like every other columns extension. Rightclick in the sidebar or menubar -> 'Toolbars' -> 'Volume control'

Just checking - are you actually *using* the Columns UI? (Preferences/Display/User interface module) The volume control toolbar won't work with FooBar2000s normal UI.

If so, you can activate it in the toolbar context menu, it's under "Toolbars"...

np: Richard Devine - Captract (Asect Dsect)

Ah, thank you. I didn't realize there were a context menu for the toolbars I was just looking around in the config dialog box.

thanks kode54 for the volume slider, very nice!
i have one problem with it though, if i set the control device to my soundcard (aureon wave) it will not remember this setting, after i start the preferences again, it's back to "Foobar 2000 internal"
Or after i press "Save All"

kode54
Thanks for the volume extension!
Is it possible to use a progressbar (or something similar, like foo_dirvol) instead of the trackbar? Or there are some columns_ui extension's SDK restrictions?

Kode, I've just managed to "break" my DMX 6fire using your component. All I could hear was loud noise and had to restart the device

Perhaps this is just because of buggy drivers, but make sure that you initialize mixer interface just once and reuse it, instead of initializing/deinitializing it every time you want to change the volume...

(I'm just guessing, of course, but that was the reason for this wierd soundcard behaviour when I was writing my foo_mixer plugin.)

Same here. Anyway, thanks for this!

A progress bar control does not ordinarily imply that it is clickable or draggable in the way that a trackbar does. (Besides, I always thought that looked silly. I may make this configurable in the future, but it will be a completely different control, as would the case for a vertical slider panel.)



The mixer device is opened from the moment you configure it until the moment you switch to another mixer device, or close the player. The only thing which does not open/close it is the configuration dialog, which enumerates properties by device ID. Would you mind seeing how this example software behaves on your sound card?


The function which opens the configured mixer resets the selected device to internal if it fails to open the mixer. Perhaps I should switch to a simpler model which does not open the mixer, as is the case with one of my references. I could make it configurable, because if I don't open the mixer, you lose the "nifty" volume sliders tracking to match changes made to mixer elsewhere.

Uploaded v1.21.

• Fixed a bug in the trackbar WM_MOUSEMOVE override which only happened to manifest when using the internal volume in combination with foo_osd's volume change pop-up.

One suggestion:
Enable the scroll wheel to change the volume when the mouse is in the volume control toolbar. I'm sure everyone will love this one and it has been done on the foopilot look IIRC

Done.

How can you check what version your Columns UI is?

Under 'preferences>components'

I've waiting for plugin like this. (I wondering if i could make mixer in future with some foo_looks skin in some tab. . It would be great if you put some actions to keyboard shortcuts menu to control volumes (for example Wave up/Wave down) ). Thank you for this plugin.

Already done, see [main] Components/Volume toolbar *.

@kode54:
Yes i can direct your plugin with Components/Volume toolbar [up/down/mute].
But i wondering about do full mixer in foo_looks skin using plugin like this. In foo_looks only way (that i know) to get some value (and display it) is from format title from playlist (for example it could be "%volume_Wave_value%".). And set it from some action (for example: 'Components/Volume toolbar wave up'). I wont to direct all mixer values in the same time and diplay it. But i thing one value is enouth for me. Sometimes i only need to change master volume and this i can make very handly for now with your plugin. But maybe you take this into consideration in future versions

Hi, thanks a lot for this plugin!

Just a little request: Could it be possible to have a vertical volume slide?

I can expose my internal mixer through an extra service, and I can also design a callback service for receiving volume change notifications when my component is installed.

I could make my existing control operate based on the value of the core volume level, but then it would conflict with the Volume DSP if both are activated at the same time.


I will have to implement that as a separate panel. I will adapt the current trackbar subclassing system to a vertical orientation, for my next non-bugfix release, which should be soonish.

Cool, thanks

I have nothing else to say than thanks!

Now I can stop using that banned component. I have my poweramp directly connected to the soundcard and need the foobar dithering (windows volume control creates icky artefacts at low volumes). Controlling the pc via a touchscreen, the slider saves the day.

Well, if you're using digital output, then the system volume controls would have to be implemented digitally as well. For best results, that step needs to be applied before sample conversion and dithering. Which is what you're already doing now by using the internal volume DSP.

Slightly off-topic, my card doesn't allow master volume control when operating in digital output mode, but does allow waveout / software MIDI synthesizer / etc control, which are presumably in software. I can see it would have the same impact on dithering, and possibly also on the dynamic range of the output if the signal is scaled digitally and you need to use low volume levels.

Maybe it's best to keep the amplifier at the desired regular volume level and the sound output at maximum. Or something.

Thanks Kode54, it's a great ColumnUI-extension.

Since ColumnsUI-alpha5 the device-settings are not saved (at least here).
Running foobar 0.8.3, ColumnsUI-alpha5 and latest foo_uie_volume (with older uie_volume it's the same) - with alpha4 everything was fine.
I don't know if musicmusic, you or - alike obvious - me has to change something.

edit: language

Exactly my reasoning.

I am using analog out with a USB box, but I think the 'master' volume is controlled digitally, since output noise, bandwidth etc remain unchanged when changing volume. The codec IC has a S/PDIF output (which is not 'officially' on the box, only internal and haven't tested it yet), which points in the same direction. I'll have to do some tinkering with it to be absolutely sure though.

On my laptop on the other hand, I'm quite sure it's done in the analog domain, since changing master volume changes noise considerably. Hence, there I've disabled fb2k's volume control and am using the system master control.

Yup. Which is what I do on my workstation (connected to an old Sansui). Still prefer fb2k volume control over windows' though.

My amp in the living room, connected to the media box has no such controls.
On the other hand, with proper dithering the soundcard output noise dwarves the amplifier's noise in measurement. In listening both are inaudible, even with 98 dB sensitive speakers. The soundcard also does a 20 dB better THD+N than the amp. As such, the situation doesn't bother me in the least. In fact, I rather like the 'direct' route.

Sorry for the threadjack. My morale: use system controls when they influence noise out (and when audible), use fb2k instead wherever possible.

(but remember to turn off system sounds in that case!)

Have you checked if settings persist within the same session?

1) Select mixer and control.
2) Close Preferences.
3) Reopen Preferences.

To all who currently have a problem with the configuration not working, unload all other resident mixer configuration utilities one by one until the problem goes away. It seems rather stupid that a driver set has a limit on how many applications can have the mixer open at the same time.

Same here, but hapens since alpha 4 in my case. It doesn't even save the settings when foobar is open. If I switch to my soundcard (soundblaster) and I hit 'save all' it automatically switch back to 'foobar2000 internal'.

@ Kode54 : ..no, it even does not remember settings within the same session.
Does my foo has alzheimer? I need a doctor *running around crazily*

..no prob at all

No, that means it's having trouble opening your mixer device.

Uploaded v1.31.

• Added error logging, the console should always pop up on most serious errors.

..selfmade trouble, or at least due to ColumnsUI
After pressing 'save all' it changes to internal again

Do you even have the console installed?

Yes (loaded libaries: ...foo_console.dll...), had a look at it directly after the problem came up - nothing spectacular was told.
Happens at home and here at my working place - and only ColumnUI and Volume-extension was changed; changing to old Volume-extension still does not help.

Crap, there was a lame bug in my configuration dialog's range checking. Fixed now.

Thx - keep up the good koding stuff

That will be great .
Keep up working on this very useful plugin.

I have WXP-home-sp2,
foobar 0.8.3 (latest special install)+foo_massdelete1.7+foo_openwith0.4
columns UI 0.1.2b4
foo uie volume 1.3.2

The volume control disappeared one day and is no longer offered by right clicking on the toolbar. I.e., I can't get it to show anymore.
I messed with the colums ui, checked the "list all toolbars" (it warned me about possible unexpected behavior), and the choice of "playlist switcher" was added to the list but not volume control.

The volume extension configuration screen IS accesible. I messed with the few settings in there a little to no avail.

I think the plugin needs updated to work with the new version of the column UI. I just noticed it's missing here too and thats the only thing thats changed.

Actually though, the volume bar disappeard under an older configuration.. older versions of both colums ui and volume. The combination worked for a while.

The volume panel disappeared before I changed anything about the foobar configuration. I updated to ui0.1.2b4 and volume1.3.2 to see if it would fix the problem. (It didn't) So I don't think it's merely an update required issue, since the old working configuration stopped working randomly before any changes happened.

Not to belittle kode54 or his plugin, (I'm really grateful to foobar developers), but I've discovered that I never used the volume control except during my first test drive. I got so used to just pushing +/- keys that the thing simply slipped from my mind, and it took me a long time to notice that it was gone.

But I like that the volume slider helps make foobar more "accesible" to some people.

I noticed after installing foo_uie_volume today I noticed that the middle wheel scrolling in the volume tab affects the scrolling in my foo_playlist_tree extension when using the panel stack extension. I tested on albumlist too, and scrolling on that breaks too...

Is this a problem with the panel stack plugin or could it be something in foo_uie_volume?

Thanks for plugin, its very useful...

Hello everyone,

I don't know why or what it is I'm doing wrong, but I can't get this volume slider to appear.

I'm definitely using columns UI, as set in the display section of the preferences of Foobar. The problem is, I can't seem to enable the volume control. If I right-click anywhere in the foorbar window, I get a menu, but at no point does the menu include "Toolbars...".

If I call the menu in the tabs above the songs where I can sort by artist or title or whatever, I get to choose what tabs are visible, and I can go to the columsUI preferences. If I right-click in the sidebar, I get a whole bunch of playlist options like masstagging, replaygain etc. If I click in any of the moveable toolbars like song progress or the play controls, I get to choose which of those are visible ( Menu, vis, seek, playback order, playback buttons) or lock the taskbar. If I click in the bar at the bottom of the window I get the same menu as the playlist sidebar.

What am I doing wrong? I really want a volume slider, or I may be forced to go back to Winamp

Preferences>Display>Columns UI>Others> Check 'List all toolbars'

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I tried clicking "Reset all toolbars" but no luck.

Your version of columns_ui is too old.
Update(0.1.2RC1): http://music.everywebhost.com/

Phew! Well, my bad, sorry. After downloading the latest RC and 7-zip and recalling why it is we have GUIs these days, I finally have my volume slider. Nice!

Thanks all!