CLUSTER TRAY-WINDOWS-AUDIO · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-11
Windows audio management utilities
These are Windows tray utilities that manage per-application audio behavior, covering volume memory, output-device switching, and music ducking. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only 0 dated entries exist before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. On traction, win11-sound-mixer leads with 6 stars, while audio-rebind and decibar each have 1 star.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 7 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01SoundSwitch119★9 days—hobbyWindows desktop app that remembers per-application audio output devices and restores them automatically after reboot.
- 02audio-rebind1★26 days—hobbyWindows utility that restores shared-mode WASAPI audio after sleep by rebinding the audio engine, USB devices, and apps in a fixed order.
- 03WindowFocusMute1★14 days—hobbyWindows utility that automatically mutes selected applications when their windows lose focus and restores sound when a window regains focus.
- 04Volume110★27 days—hobbyWindows utility that remembers per-application volume settings from the system tray and automatically reapplies them when programs start playing audio.
- 05earplugger2★22 days—ai-builthobbyDesktop utility that automatically resynchronizes Voicemeeter audio when a KVM switch or USB disconnect interrupts the audio device.
- 06audio-follow0★6 days—hobbyWindows tray utility that restarts configured apps when the default audio output changes, fixing apps that keep playing through the old device.
- 07background-ferry1★1 mo—hobbyWindows tray app that automatically lowers music volume while selected applications produce sound and restores it during pauses.
- 08imebind-csharp0★29 days—hobbyWindows utility that remembers a preferred input method for each application and automatically switches to it when that app comes to the foreground.
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