Hi everyone! Many users, including yours truly, find the default Kodi UI sounds way too loud compared to media playback volume.
Since there is no setting in Kodi to adjust the GUI volume, I have grabbed the default Kodi UI .wav files, lowered their volume in Audacity, and created 2 sound addons — default Kodi UI Sounds lowered by -12dB and -24 dB (big thanks to @scott967 for sharing his knowledge).
Here are the files:
The sound addons work exactly as you would expect, I am very satisfied and I’d love to see them added to the Official Kodi.tv Repo for everyone to enjoy. I wanted to publish these sounds myself, but I’m not a developer — I don’t know much about stuff like Github, security certificates, etc, and it’s a bit of an overkill for me to obtain all that knowledge and infrastructure just to be able to publish a couple of sounds. So I want to ask any existing addon developer to publish these sound addons through his channel. Take all the credit if you want, I just want to share the sounds to help people solve this little yet extremely annoying inconvenience (loud enexpected noises, that is).
Thanks in advance to anyone interested.
P.S. I am well-aware that GUI sounds can be disabled easily, but there are plenty of users who love the UI sounds but simply find them far too loud on their particular system.