Volume Locker: matoleo yote na matoleo ya zamani

What's New

Seamless Audio Device Migration
- Volume Locker now tracks your audio devices across physical connection changes.
- Moving a USB headset, DAC, or microphone to a different USB port preserves all your volume locks, unmute locks, and priority positions.
- Active temporary priority overrides are also preserved when a temporarily chosen device reconnects under a new endpoint ID.
- Unpairing and re-pairing Bluetooth devices no longer loses your configured settings or priority order.
- Audio driver updates (such as NVIDIA, AMD, or Realtek updates) no longer disconnect your saved device settings.

Intelligent Multi-Channel & Profile Protection
- Dual-channel headsets (with separate Game and Chat channels) are safely distinguished—settings on your Game channel will never accidentally migrate to your Chat channel.
- Bluetooth dual profiles (Stereo Headphones vs. Hands-Free Headset) are tracked separately without cross-migrating.
- Hardware bus isolation: Internal motherboard audio (Realtek/HD Audio) and external USB or Bluetooth peripherals never cross-migrate, even when sharing common default names like "Speakers".
- Conflicting USB VID/PID protection: Different hardware models sharing generic names (e.g. "USB Audio Device") are never misassociated.
- Active in-use device protection: Devices currently active in priority lists or temporary priorities are strictly shielded from being overwritten or claimed as unclaimed migration targets.
- If you use multiple identical audio devices without unique serial numbers, Volume Locker prevents accidental settings swapping.

Smart Rename & Reset Handling
- Renaming an audio device in Windows Sound Settings is now recognized immediately without needing to restart the app.
- If Windows resets a renamed device back to its driver default name after re-plugging, Volume Locker recognizes the underlying hardware and keeps your settings intact.
- Custom device names are strictly guarded so they will never accidentally match against generic default names from other devices.

Instant Wake & Sleep Volume Clamping
- Volume Locker now immediately wakes when your computer resumes from sleep or Modern Standby.
- Volume locks and unmute states are re-enforced right upon wake, preventing audio drivers from resetting your volume levels during system sleep.

Device Migration Notifications
- Added a new Notify on device migration option under the Preferences menu.
- When enabled, a desktop notification lets you know whenever settings are transferred to a reconnected device ("Device Settings Transferred: Settings for '...' were transferred to its new connection").

Purely Event-Driven Operation
- Device reconnections, renames, and migrations now happen instantly as Windows events occur.
- Rapid hardware plug-and-play event bursts are coalesced into atomic event loop updates.
- Auto-dismiss & seamless menu refresh: When audio devices are connected, disconnected, or changed while the tray menu is currently open on screen, the menu automatically dismisses Windows' modal loop, processes device state transitions and logging without stalling, and immediately reopens with fresh, up-to-date endpoints.
- Resilient default device handling: Gracefully handles transitions when all endpoints are unplugged or Windows clears a default audio role.
- No interaction with the tray icon or application restarts needed to catch device changes.

Clearer Priority Routing Labels
- Renamed the communication priority entries to Follow output device priority and Follow input device priority, making it obvious that communication audio dynamically tracks whichever device the main priority list resolves to.

Clear & Informative Activity Logs
- Audio device event logs now report the exact device name, ID, and transition (e.g. 'Speakers' became disconnected, 'Headphones' became active, Default Output changed to '...').
- Menu interactions are clearly logged (e.g. selecting temporary priorities, locking volumes, reordering priorities) ma

What's New

Independent Communication Priorities
- You can now set separate priority lists for communication devices.
- Voice calls and regular media playback can route to different devices automatically.
- For example, keep music on speakers while calls automatically use your headset.
- Input devices also support independent communication priorities for microphones.

Flexible Communication Fallbacks
- Communication priorities can now include your regular device priority as an entry.
- Prefer a headset for calls when connected, and fall back to your normal speakers otherwise.
- Move or remove the fallback entry at any time.

Streamlined Priority Menus
- Priority lists are now organized in dedicated settings submenus.
- The main tray menu is shorter and easier to navigate.
- When adding a device, you can choose Add to top or Add to bottom.
- Notify on restore is now located inside each priority settings submenu.

Current Device Status at a Glance
- Active default and communication devices are displayed directly under Current: .
- Star indicators were removed from the device list in favor of these clear labels.

Temporary Overrides for Communication
- Temporary device overrides now support communication devices.
- Temporarily switch calls to another device without changing your saved priorities.
- Temporary menu labels display the currently active override.

Independent Notifications
- Toggle restore notifications separately for regular audio and communication audio.

Pull requests
- feat: independent communication priorities for output and input by @Arucious in #176
- refactor: reorganize device priority menus and integrate main priority in communication by @felipecrs in #180
- Update Rust to v1.99.1 by @renovate[bot] in #163
- Update Rust crate tray-icon to 0.26.1 by @renovate[bot] in #162
- Update Rust crate winresource to 0.1.34 by @renovate[bot] in #166
- Update Rust crate open to 5.4.5 by @renovate[bot] in #170
- Update Rust crate serde_json to 1.0.154 by @renovate[bot] in #165
- Update Rust crate notify-rust to 4.18.2 by @renovate[bot] in #160
- Update Rust crate ureq to 3.5.0 by @renovate[bot] in #169
- Update Rust crate tao to 0.37.2 by @renovate[bot] in #172

New Contributors
- @Arucious made their first contribution in #176

What's Changed
- Run update checks off the event loop by @felipecrs in #158
- Add a stable GUID to the tray icon by @felipecrs in #159
- Update Windows dependencies to 0.100.0 via windows-bindgen by @felipecrs in #157
- Update Rust to v1.98.1 by @renovate[bot] in #135
- Update Rust crate tray-icon to 0.25.1 by @renovate[bot] in #143
- Update Rust crate notify-rust to 4.18.0 by @renovate[bot] in #129
- Update Rust crate anyhow to 1.0.104 by @renovate[bot] in #138
- Update Rust crate log to 0.4.34 by @renovate[bot] in #150
- Update Rust crate open to 5.4.4 by @renovate[bot] in #134
- Update Rust crate ureq to 3.4.2 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/felipecrs/volume-locker

What's Changed
- Improve code quality by @felipecrs in #106
- Update Rust crate open to 5.3.5 by @renovate[bot] in #110
- Update Rust crate tao to 0.35.2 by @renovate[bot] in #116
- Update Rust crate tray-icon to 0.24.0 by @renovate[bot] in #113
- Update Rust crate notify-rust to 4.17.0 by @renovate[bot] in #109

What's Changed
- Fix auto-launch and self-update issues with UNC paths by @felipecrs in #99
- Update Rust to 1.94.0
- Fix some code inconsistencies
Full Changelog: v0.8.6...v0.8.7

What's Changed
- Avoid erasing preferences if there's an error when loading it by @felipecrs in #96
- Use notify-rust and open cross-platform crates by @felipecrs in #92
- Update Rust crate ureq to v3.3.0 - autoclosed by @renovate[bot] in #93
- Update Rust crate tao to 0.35.0 by @renovate[bot] in #95
Full Changelog: v0.8.5...v0.8.6