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I've been looking around for this for a bit now and there's all these different options but I can't find anything concrete.

I've tried with chatGPT (since search engines can't give me a final result).
It wants me to use wireplumber and qpwgraph, mess with virtual sinks, trying to make it all persistent.

I know this question has been asked before, and I don't mind a bit of tinkering. But this is getting a bit overwhelming now and I'm hoping to get a bit more of a concrete answer.

I want to control application volume with knobs on my USB MIDI mixer. It's got 9 total so I need to group things.
I also want to use the buttons on each of the 9 channels to work as mute buttons
I want the rotary encoder knob to work to control the volume of my main output device
I'm hoping to get channel 9 to work for my secondary audio device at my simrig that isn't always connected
And lastly I'm hoping to get 3 of the buttons on my mixer to work as media control buttons specifically for spotify. For play/pause, next track and previous track.

I do prefer a GUI option (I know the terminal can't be avoided, that's fine). I don't want to have to manually write everything out in the terminal every time I want to have a game's audio be controlled by one of the knobs. All my games go on the volume knob of channel 4 so there'll be a whole bunch of applications linked to that one knob. But again, I don't want to have to manually write all this out in the terminal every time. And I know zero programming so I don't want to have to deal with scripts I don't understand. (I don't care how easy someone else might find it, I don't find it easy at all).

So was I already somewhat on the right track? Or is it a lot easier now like how fancontrol has been replaced with CoolerControl?

Sorry if this ain't the place to post this. The menu is just for the most part inaccessible. And the search engine I use, Startpage, doesn't show up in the list after using it, either. Github does, hell even reddit. But not the actual Startpage. Idk if there's another way to do this or not. The menu really needs me to add a name, but I can't even get to the field to enter a shortcut for it, and I can't even save it without a name. And editing others also doesn't work. If that menu does pop up it goes in the exact same spot. Tapping the 3 dots just freezes the entire window.

I would report this issue but I don't have github, pretty sure I don't hsve an account, password reset doesn't work and they say they can't create an account with my email address. And the live support chat only gets connection issues

MIDI volume control on Linux - can it be easy?

Anyone else unable to add search engine to Cromite browser?