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Windows 10 laptop is filtering out any recorded music on any microphone

My Windows 10 Alienware laptop is filtering out any sound that isn't "voice-like" when recording on any microphone. I'm confident that this is some sort of noise-blocking enhancement feature ...
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Why does Amazon Music create an asw_sdk{date}.log file on my desktop when it runs?

I am running Windows 10 and whenever I run my Amazon Music Desktop app it creates a file called aws_swk{today's date}.log file on my desktop. It's always empty. It appears to also have logs in its ...
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How do I make only *one* specific playlist have "shuffle play order" in foobar2000?

For many years, I used Winamp. I almost always had the "Shuffle" checkbox checked. Since I switched to foobar2000 about ten years ago, my music listening pattern has changed completely. 99....
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Music through bluetooth speaker but other sounds come through computer

I have a bluetooth speaker connected to my Windows 10 laptop. I play music using Groove Music which comes out of the bluetooth speaker. Other sounds such as zoom chat, or facebook notifications will ...
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How can I execute a Windows Store software with a command line?

Related: directly execute windows store app (has no answers. ) Hello, I am asking with the idea to change my keyboard shortcut for Media: How can I run another app when pressing the calculator key ...
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Make selected application able to output sound only when no other applications are outputting sound

Is there a way of allowing a selected application (that is trying to output sound), to only be able to output when no other applications are outputting sound? Usecase scenario Some people listen to ...
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Best file system for flash drive (playing music in car) [closed]

I just got a Patriot flash drive to store and play music off of on my Kenwood car stereo. It came in exFat format. I heard Ntfs was the fastest so I'm currently formatting it to ntfs. Now I'm not ...
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Make windows 10 recognize a application as a communication program for audio device

Question I have set one output device (my speakers) as my default audio output and another output device (my headphones) as my default communications device. I have several programs that I use for ...
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Make WMP sort by title by default / on startup

Windows 10 and WMP 12 here. I memorize, organize and match my songs by name, so I've set all my media players to sort by song title by default. Now I'm stuck with Media Player. It always sorts by ...
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route live audio output to live .wav file

i found this nice visualisation program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVrf89SXvTM i really like it, but it can only play *.wav files in the same folder as the program executable is. but i want to ...
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Has my music folder any actual use or is it just a normal folder?

Is there ANY advantage to using this dedicated folder to store my music or is it just something Microsoft put there for no reason?
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How to stop Windows 10 muting audio playback when screen turns off

I have found that on my new XPS 13 9360 with the creators update, if I am playing back music from any source (Spotify for example), when the screen turns off after a couple of minutes, audio seems to ...
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PC not differentiating Left/Right channel properly

I have an .mp3 (Bohemian Rhapsody to be exact). When I play it on my Mobile (Xiaomi Redmi 2), the lyrics "Little High", "Little Low" which are supposed to be on left and right channels respectively ...
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Spotify for Windows app is not downloading songs for offline mode

So, lately, I decided I want to have some Spotify playlists in offline mode in Spotify for Windows. It successfully downloaded one song, and now all the others just have that little 'syncing' icon. It ...
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