Vaydeer Multimedia Volume Controller Knob

cool gadget but could be a lot more useful if you could control individual app volumes like Spotify, for instance if your playing a video game and listening to Spotify turning the knob only affects the volume of the music and not the master volume

At my desk, I listen to music most of the day and I find myself adjusting the volume and tracks a lot. I have a multimedia keyboard, but having a dedicated knob for volume is so much quicker and more reliable than the keyboard keys. Once you try it, it’s hard to go back. The fact that this has Back, Play/Pause, Forward, and Mute is just a bonus.

The craftsmanship of this device is very good. Better than expected, actually. The metal casing and beveled edges look and feel premium. The only place I think there’s room for improvement is the potentiometer (the turning mechanism under the volume knob). Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice, but there is this ever so slight wobble to it that makes me feel like it’s 3.5/5 or 4/5 stars. If you’ve ever turned knobs on high-end audio equipment, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Which brings me to the cost. I feel like this is priced slightly higher than it deserves. If the knob was better, I would say totally worth the price. As is, it’s only worth it because there is nothing better that I can find.

A couple other notes worth mentioning: I used this on Windows 10 and macOS 10.15 with no issues. The non-skid rubber bottom is a fantastic idea. And finally, the knob softly clicks as you rotate it. Which makes perfect sense to me now, but for whatever reason I had expected it to be smooth. All in all, this is a great device and I think you’ll be happy with it if this is the kind of thing you are looking for.

This is exactly what I was looking for! Well built and controls the media player on my PC. Plug-and-play!

I am retired, living in my RV full time (in the Redwoods, CA) and for several years have been spending the majority of my time gaming. Some of my games, though, don't provide much for musical entertainment. So sometimes I fire up the game on my main PC, and launch iTunes on my second PC. For years I have been using a second keyboard to control iTunes (pause, volume change, etc). Since I moved into my RV last year, this has proved to make things a bit cluttered in my gaming area.

So, I went looking for a smaller solution, and found this! It's a perfect fit! And, it does exactly what I need it to do. The analog style volume knob is a particularly nice feature that makes it easy to adjust the volume on-the-fly. I highly recommend this for a simple, small, yet effective solution for any similar situation. Kudos to the designer!

This volume control is awesome. I have been using it for several months now. It is made of solid metal and the dial turns very smoothly. There are buttons for pause/play, skip forward, skip back, and a button to change the amount of volume change when you turn the dial. Again, it is made of solid metal and has a rubber padded bottom. It stays put where ever the place it and I expect this will last longer than the computers I plugged it into.

I use it to change the volume on streaming music on a secondary PC when I am working on my primary PC. Both computers are hooked up to the same large monitor via a KVM and most of the time the secondary PC is running in headless mode. Plugging this into a USB port on that PC makes it a snap to change the volume, pause the music, skip the the next track, etc... All while working on the primary PC. Again, this thing is solid construction.

I have used this on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux. On Windows 10, it works flawlessly. On Ubuntu (Mate 20.04, 20.10, 21.04) It works perfectly when logged in, but as soon as it goes into screensaver mode, the OS no longer recognizes the device input until I logged back in again. This is an Ubuntu issue, not a problem with the audio control itself.

Out of the box it works perfectly with Windows 10 and Ubuntu --no drivers required.