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Set app volumes with real sliders! deej is an Arduino & Go project to let you build your own hardware mixer for Windows and Linux

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Problems with Tidal

NadieNiemand opened this issue · comments

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When I'm playing music on Tidal and move the slider changes the volume but when changes the song the volume resets until I move the slider again.

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Hi there @NadieNiemand, thanks for writing!

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the specifics of Tidal, but I heard reports of a similar issue happening with Amazon Music's desktop player on Windows. I believe what's happening is that these apps spawn a new audio session for each new song they play, but they don't bother taking the volume of the previous and just start it at 100%.

You can test this out to make sure deej isn't messing up with your Tidal volumes:

  1. Close deej
  2. Play a song on Tidal - while it's playing reduce Tidal's volume in Windows Mixer
  3. Wait for the next song
  4. Check Tidal's volume in Windows Mixer - if it went back up to 100%, this is just the app behavior.

By design, deej only ever changes an app's volume when a slider is moves. This is done for a several reasons, one of which is keeping deej performant. That means, consequently, that deej cannot constantly poll to see if an app is out-of-sync with the current volumes and change it accordingly.

Thus, there are two ways to overcome this issue:

  • Reaching out to the Tidal app developers, explaining the problem (you can provide them the repro steps above, as they don't involve deej) and asking for this behavior to be fixed or made optional.
  • Switching to a different music player that doesn't have this behavior

I hope this somewhat helps - please let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks!