The Windows 10 Volume Mixer is Awesome

You might not know this, but on Windows 10 you can use the Volume Mixer to control the sound output from individual programs running on your PC. In the screenshot above I’m using it to silence the really annoying in-game music produced by the otherwise wonderful Scythe game. I’m always a bit confused by the background music produced by these digital boardgames. It’s not as if the physical copy comes with a CD or a download code.

The first thing that I usually do when starting a game like Scythe is to find the well hidden option that turns the sound off. Tonight I forgot to do that, and so we were stuck with a loop of unwanted music while we waited in the online lobby for others to join us. No matter, just right click on the speaker at the right hand side of the task bar, select Volume Mixer form the menu that appears and we could turn the output right down. It even remembers the setting for the next time you run the same application.

Most useful.