Note: This repository is a fork of the original project, found at File-New-Project/EarTrumpet. It was created to experiment with AI tools in order to add a feature I wanted in an application I use every day: Audio Playback Device Hiding.
This fork adds full support for hiding audio playback endpoints so you can keep your flyout volume mixer tidy and focused only on the devices you actively use:
- Quick-Hide from Flyout: Hover over any device title in the volume flyout to reveal the hide button, instantly collapsing and removing the device from view.
- Dedicated "Devices" Settings Page: Manage all detected audio endpoints in Settings > Devices, view device status (
Hiddenvs. active), toggle individual device visibility, or unhide all devices in one click. - Non-Destructive & Persistent: Hiding a device inside EarTrumpet only affects EarTrumpet's mixer UI; it does not disable or modify the device in Windows Sound settings. Preferences persist across restarts and device reconnections.
- Pre-built Downloads: Ready-to-run binaries and portable zip archives are available on the Releases page.
2022 Winner of the Microsoft Store Community Choice Awards (Open Platform)
Windows is an open platform for innovation. We know that not every customer uses Windows in the same way — some want to modify different parts of the UI or make some features more accessible for them. These are the apps you said turn Windows into your Windows.
[...] there are alternative solutions like EarTrumpet which are great [...]
[...] there are third-party solutions out there that do a much better job than what Windows offers by default. One such app is called EarTrumpet [...]
Microsoft's built-in Windows 11 audio management still isn't great. EarTrumpet overhauls it completely, with a system tray utility that gives you volume levels for every app and the ability to set custom inputs and outputs for those apps.
If you want fine-tuned control of your app and system volume, EarTrumpet is a must.
- Hide audio playback devices from the flyout and manage visibility in Settings (new in this fork)
- Visualize audio with multi-channel aware peaking
- Standalone volume mixer
- Move apps between playback devices
- Default playback device management
- Automatic updates via the Microsoft Store
- Support for light/dark mode and all accent colors
- Configurable hotkeys
- Modern context menus
- Growing multilingual support
Thanks to our translators, we currently support 20+ languages. Are we missing your language? Contribute a translation via Crowdin!
Install EarTrumpet from the Microsoft Store
Or via command line using either
- Windows Package Manager Client (winget) (
winget install File-New-Project.EarTrumpet) - Chocolatey (
choco install eartrumpet)
Want to see what we were working on? Or help us test new features? Install EarTrumpet from the dev channel. New builds are released automatically every time we commit to the dev branch, keeping you up to date on our progress.
- Technical Information
- Compiling EarTrumpet
- Contributing to EarTrumpet
- Information Collected And Transmitted By EarTrumpet
- Project License
- Change Log
- Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update)
- Windows 10 1809 (October 2018 Update)
- Windows 10 1903 (May 2019 Update)
- Windows 10 1909 (November 2019 Update)
- Windows 10 2004 (May 2020 Update)
- Windows 10 20H2 (October 2020 Update)
- Windows 10 21H1 (May 2021 Update)
- Windows 10 21H2 (November 2021 Update)
- Windows 10 22H2 (October 2022 Update)
- Windows 11
- David Golden (@GoldenTao)
- Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael)
- Dave Amenta (@davux)
- Contributors
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