// ==UserScript==
// @name         Youtube Music fix volume ratio
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.4
// @description  Makes the YouTube music volume slider exponential so it's easier to select lower volumes.
// @author       Marco Pfeiffer <[email protected]>
// @icon         https://music.youtube.com/favicon.ico
// @match        https://music.youtube.com/*
// @run-at       document-start
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
// manipulation exponent, higher value = lower volume
// 3 is the value used by pulseaudio, which Barteks2x figured out this gist here: https://gist.github.com/Barteks2x/a4e189a36a10c159bb1644ffca21c02a
// 0.05 (or 5%) is the lowest you can select in the UI which with an exponent of 3 becomes 0.000125 or 0.0125%
const EXPONENT = 3;
const storedOriginalVolumes = new WeakMap();
const {get, set} = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(HTMLMediaElement.prototype, 'volume');
Object.defineProperty(HTMLMediaElement.prototype, 'volume', {
get () {
const lowVolume = get.call(this);
const calculatedOriginalVolume = lowVolume ** (1 / EXPONENT);
// The calculated value has some accuracy issues which can lead to problems for implementations that expect exact values.
// To avoid this, I'll store the unmodified volume to return it when read here.
// This mostly solves the issue, but the initial read has no stored value and the volume can also change though external influences.
// To avoid ill effects, I check if the stored volume is somewhere in the same range as the calculated volume.
const storedOriginalVolume = storedOriginalVolumes.get(this);
const storedDeviation = Math.abs(storedOriginalVolume - calculatedOriginalVolume);
const originalVolume = storedDeviation < 0.01 ? storedOriginalVolume : calculatedOriginalVolume;
// console.log('manipulated volume from', lowVolume.toFixed(2), 'to  ', originalVolume.toFixed(2), storedDeviation);
return originalVolume;
},
set (originalVolume) {
const lowVolume = originalVolume ** EXPONENT;
storedOriginalVolumes.set(this, originalVolume);
// console.log('manipulated volume to  ', lowVolume.toFixed(2), 'from', originalVolume.toFixed(2));
set.call(this, lowVolume);
}
});
})();