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Volume control beyond just the sound card itself
Hello all,
I have a sort of strange question.... I have noticed over the years that my volume coming through the speakers would be arbitrarily changed by different aplications. For example, if I turn on the computer and open Winamp, I get a certain volume, and of course that is adjustable in Winamp AND from my regular WinXp volume control. OK, but let's say I watch a video of something in Windows Media player or Quicktime or something. Then I close that. Now, going back to Winamp, the overall volume is different. But in fact the volume level of both Winamp and the main Windows level are not changed. OR if I open iTunes and do anything in there, it will affect the volume of other things after I CLOSE iTunes and go back to Winamp, or whatever. I swear I'm not making this up.... Now, when I had my Turtle Beach card in the last computer, it had a default that I could just choose, and clicking that would magically make the audio levels from the speakers return to what you might call "factory." And remember I'm not talking about changing the regular Windows volume slider at all.... Now I am on a new Velocity Micro 64-bit and chose a great video card, but went ahead with the integrated RealTek AC97 audio. The driver doesn't have a setting I can just revert to and make everything magically come back up to normal volume. Its almost as if I have to go into every possible audio and video app, boost the volume to each one to 100% then close the apps, so that my overall system volume is back to normal/factory/whatever.... I know.... wacky.... has anyone experienced this???? Tim |
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Volume control beyond just the sound card itself
In the end, it all depends on the manufactures base software. What you are
experiencing is normal. -- JANA _____ "Destin_FL" wrote in message news:iEaJf.33008$Dh.11036@dukeread04... Hello all, I have a sort of strange question.... I have noticed over the years that my volume coming through the speakers would be arbitrarily changed by different aplications. For example, if I turn on the computer and open Winamp, I get a certain volume, and of course that is adjustable in Winamp AND from my regular WinXp volume control. OK, but let's say I watch a video of something in Windows Media player or Quicktime or something. Then I close that. Now, going back to Winamp, the overall volume is different. But in fact the volume level of both Winamp and the main Windows level are not changed. OR if I open iTunes and do anything in there, it will affect the volume of other things after I CLOSE iTunes and go back to Winamp, or whatever. I swear I'm not making this up.... Now, when I had my Turtle Beach card in the last computer, it had a default that I could just choose, and clicking that would magically make the audio levels from the speakers return to what you might call "factory." And remember I'm not talking about changing the regular Windows volume slider at all.... Now I am on a new Velocity Micro 64-bit and chose a great video card, but went ahead with the integrated RealTek AC97 audio. The driver doesn't have a setting I can just revert to and make everything magically come back up to normal volume. Its almost as if I have to go into every possible audio and video app, boost the volume to each one to 100% then close the apps, so that my overall system volume is back to normal/factory/whatever.... I know.... wacky.... has anyone experienced this???? Tim |
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Volume control beyond just the sound card itself
"Destin_FL" wrote in message
news:iEaJf.33008$Dh.11036@dukeread04 Hello all, I have a sort of strange question.... I have noticed over the years that my volume coming through the speakers would be arbitrarily changed by different aplications. For example, if I turn on the computer and open Winamp, I get a certain volume, and of course that is adjustable in Winamp AND from my regular WinXp volume control. Winamp has an obvious volume control and a less-obvious volume control of its own. It's takes precidence over any previous volume control settings and AFAIK does not restore them when it ends. OK, but let's say I watch a video of something in Windows Media player or Quicktime or something. Then I close that. Now, going back to Winamp, the overall volume is different. The MS Meida player has a volume control of its own. See above. I believe that QTime is the same. But in fact the volume level of both Winamp and the main Windows level are not changed. Applications can control the windows volume control if they wish. They may or may not track other app's changes to the windows volume control as they wish. They can also change the volume using their own indepedendent means. OR if I open iTunes and do anything in there, it will affect the volume of other things after I CLOSE iTunes and go back to Winamp, or whatever. I swear I'm not making this up.... It's how things work. There's a larger problem here. AFAIK s' how Windows controls volume hasn't changed conecptuall since Windows 1.0, and it inhereted those concepts from the sound cards of the day which were very primitive. What does control over volume mean in a multitasking environment? Now, when I had my Turtle Beach card in the last computer, it had a default that I could just choose, and clicking that would magically make the audio levels from the speakers return to what you might call "factory." And remember I'm not talking about changing the regular Windows volume slider at all.... Often the vendor-supplied volume control application operates the same Windowsw functions as Windows' own volume control application. In fact this is pretty much the usual case. Now I am on a new Velocity Micro 64-bit and chose a great video card, but went ahead with the integrated RealTek AC97 audio. The driver doesn't have a setting I can just revert to and make everything magically come back up to normal volume. Its almost as if I have to go into every possible audio and video app, boost the volume to each one to 100% then close the apps, so that my overall system volume is back to normal/factory/whatever.... Seems like a product opportunity - an application that reasserts user-defined sound settiings, every time it is activated. |
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