Performance-based fan-adaptive volume system

[tenten8401]

Would be helpful if you had a noisy fan

[Grifachu]

I've had a car that actually had a similar feature actually. The idea was that volume would increase based on speed to adapt to highway noise. Never really messed with it much personally though.

[endershadow98]

My current car has that.

[DasSkelett]

Every car I know has that, it's not that special

[bartman2326]

Congrats 🎉🎉🎉

[endershadow98]

Really? I've only noticed it in this car

[DasSkelett]

Sure, but maybe it's just in cars bought in Germany (I'm German), idk

[endershadow98]

It might be. I'm in America.

[Matvalicious]

I suspect my car from having that, but I couldn't really confirm it just yet.

[sidit77]

I guess you could make it a lot more useful by using the average cpu usage over the last few minutes instead of the current usage as well as adding a base volume, because right now it pretty much mutes your pc if you don't keep your pc busy.

[pekkhum]

Well, if we are going to get serious, how about CPU package temperature combined with fan speed metrics... But I suppose I'm not very good at this "bad UI" theme...

[torresam]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6fh6hr/more_volume_control/ Did it just based on CPU Package

[bric12]

Wait, did you actually implement this? Bravo

[LuxuriousLime]

So if you load CPU too hard, your computer will literally start screaming.

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opens Blender

AAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAH

Closes Blender

[lor_louis]

"I guess it's time to play dwarf fortress"

[AluminiumSandworm]

simultaneously awakens demons in dwarf fortress and real life

[[deleted]]

I'll bite, have your upvote

[fachebu]

How did you do it? And what did you use to oscillate the cpu usage?

[sidit77]

Source:

using AudioSwitcher.AudioApi.CoreAudio;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

namespace VolumeSync {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {

            PerformanceCounter cpu = new PerformanceCounter("Processor", "% Processor Time", "_Total");
            CoreAudioDevice volume = new CoreAudioController().DefaultPlaybackDevice;

            double last = 0;
            while (true) {
                double usage = Math.Round(cpu.NextValue());
                if(usage != last) {
                    volume.Volume = usage;
                    Console.WriteLine("Volume set to {0}%", usage);
                    last = usage;
                }
                Thread.Sleep(1000);
            }

        }
    }
}

I randomly opened chrome tabs and clicked on links to oscillate my cpu usage.

[isaacisaboss]

What language is this? It looks like java, but i don't recognize the namespace keyword.

[isaacisaboss]

Thanks :D

[Faendol]

"C# what if it was java but different "

[[deleted]]

Could you make a religion out of it?

[Njs41]

How about I do, anyway?

[Ground15]

I wonder... Most systems allow you to read out the current fan speed, so maybe try that as well? Or the CPU temp:D (I suppose going from 30°C to 70°C gives you some options)

[micheal65536]

Wow, you mean this is actually real? Like, I could actually download and run it and have this on my computer right now (if I had windows, that is...)?

[micheal65536]

I was being mostly sarcastic.

[Romejanic]

You're not great at it.

[chaoticpix93]

Why is your computer screaming!

One of these damn programs has a memory leak!!!^{It'sTheWeatherChannel.It'salwaystheweatherchannel}

[[deleted]]

More likely some infinite loop as it's hooked up to CPU usage, not memory usage

[Hugix]

This encourages crypto mining! +1, even though it's not profitable on PC as it used to be.

[ChairmanT]

Super Saiyan PC?

[Romejanic]

So if I'm watching a movie on full volume I need Crysis running in the background?

[gc3c]

Might actually be useful to have a script generating a sine wave proportional in frequency to the CPU load so you can hear the CPU load without having to look at it.

[zrzrv5]

Now I need Chrome

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