Guest John2005 Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Hi everyone, I noticed the volume of my music was not as loud as it was in the past when playing CD's or MP3 files with Windows Media Player 10. I had the volume turned all the way up in Media player and also in Realtek HD Audio Manager, but the sound was just not anywhere near as loud as it was before. I recently un-installed "Discover stream hub / Discover.exe" and thought that this might have had something to do with it, but that does not seem to be the case. I decided to try to play an mp3 file with Realplayer and found that with the volume turned up in realplayer, the mp3 files sounded normal again, plenty of volume. What surprised me is that if I close Realplayer with it's volume control turned up, then open the MP3 with Medial player, it will sound normal in medial player, (plenty of volume). If I turn the volume control in Real player all the way down, close it, then play a file with Media Player, there will be no sound at all. Somehow, the volume control for Realplayer is effecting and overriding the volume control for Media Player. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how this might be happening ? Has anyone else ever experienced this type of thing ? It's not a big deal now that I found out what was going on, but tracking down problems like this can drive you nuts. It seems crazy that the volume control from one program would control the other, I'm just wondering what might be going on. I'm using Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2 On an HP Pavilion a152on computer. Thanks John
Guest dobey Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Real Player volume control also controls & overrides Media Player Volume ? "John2005" <johnjmechanical@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1186722641.404143.136110@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Hi everyone, > > I noticed the volume of my music was not as loud as it was in the past > when playing CD's or MP3 files with Windows Media Player 10. I had > the volume turned all the way up in Media player and also in Realtek > HD Audio Manager, but the sound was just not anywhere near as loud as > it was before. I recently un-installed "Discover stream hub / > Discover.exe" and thought that this might have had something to do > with it, but that does not seem to be the case. > > I decided to try to play an mp3 file with Realplayer and found that > with the volume turned up in realplayer, the mp3 files sounded normal > again, plenty of volume. > > What surprised me is that if I close Realplayer with it's volume > control turned up, then open the MP3 with Medial player, it will sound > normal in medial player, (plenty of volume). If I turn the volume > control in Real player all the way down, close it, then play a file > with Media Player, there will be no sound at all. > > Somehow, the volume control for Realplayer is effecting and overriding > the volume control for Media Player. Can anyone offer any > suggestions as to how this might be happening ? Has anyone else ever > experienced this type of thing ? > > It's not a big deal now that I found out what was going on, but > tracking down problems like this can drive you nuts. It seems crazy > that the volume control from one program would control the other, I'm > just wondering what might be going on. I'm using Windows XP Media > Center Edition SP2 On an HP Pavilion a152on computer. > > Thanks > John > Some media programs seem to take over the master volume control. I agree it's very annoying. I don't use Real Player, and can't think of the last time it was needed, so I can't recount my experience with it. I use Zoom player with Real Alternative installed, but I don't think that does streaming video.
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