add Blacklist

[fchud]

hi.

would be great to have a blacklist to mute only specific background apps.

could be a toggle to change whitelist (aka exceptions) into blacklist.

[nefares]

This may need some larger changes in the code. Will add as feature request

[nefares]

@fchud can you elaborate why a blacklist would be beneficial? It would increase the overhead of maintaining a blacklist of all apps which should be muted. Plus I don't see the added benefit for using it instead of a whitelist.

[fchud]

overhead of maintaining a blacklist of all apps

on the contrary, i have only one app, that i do not want to hear anything from when it is not active.
all other apps probably deserve attention when they use sound - if anything, it is an intended behavior.

in short:
i think, the apps that misuse sound features while being in background are a minority.

[nefares]

Thanks for the clarification. The reason why I opted for a white list approach is because there are a lot of apps (a lot of them are games) out there which simply don't mute when in the background. Updating the blacklist was tedious every time I install something new. So I decided it would be better to just specify the apps which are usually used for audio, which reduces unnecessary user interaction to maintain the list, and a whitelist usually works for everyone without need to add new apps that comes out.

Nonetheless this could be just my experience. Will keep the feature request open and evaluate how a blacklist can be added without too much overhead

[fchud]

yeah, i guess, it makes sense.

[TheWoodsy]

I'd very-much like a blacklist method of operation.

In my use case, I keep missing audio of new applications all the time.