Gimme Volumes

Gimme Volumes is a lightweight Windows desktop utility that lets you control audio sessions per application using a global hotkey. It's built with modern Windows technologies and designed for ease of use.

Features

• 🔊 View and control volume of individual audio sessions
• 🎚 Change the global hotkey for showing the window
• 🚀 Option to launch the app at startup
• 📥 Tray icon using H.NotifyIcon for quick access to Settings or Exit
• 🪟 Uses WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK 1.7)
• 🧰 Built on .NET 8
• 🧠 Leverages NAudio for audio session processing
• 🖇 Uses IWshRuntimeLibrary for creating Windows startup shortcuts
• ⚙️ P/Invoke support via Microsoft.Windows.CsWin32
• 📦 Unpackaged app — no installer required

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Getting Started

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. Extract and run Gimme Volumes.exe.
3. Use the tray icon to open settings and configure your hotkey and preferences.

Tray Icon

• 🛠 Settings
• ❌ Exit
• 🖱 Double-click to open main window

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Reduce Size (Optional)

To further reduce the app size, a Python script (clean_unused.py) is provided to delete unnecessary DLLs and folders. Just drop it into the EXE directory and run it.

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Development

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022
• .NET 8 SDK
• Windows App SDK 1.7 workload
• Windows 10/11

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