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How do I force Windows 7 to play only through headphones?
Okay to make things clear; I'm going to give a step by step of what happened.
I've got a brand new laptop, and while installing stuff everything was fine. When I'd plug in headphones in the 3.5mm ...
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Plugging in headphones does not mute speakers
My speakers are working even when I plug in my headphone to the front jacks. So I hear sounds from both headphones and speakers. This is quite annoying.
How could I fix this? What could cause this ...
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How can I increase the maximum volume output by VLC?
I like watching movies (using VLC) on my laptop and sometimes the volume is too low for my taste even when the volume in VLC is set to the maximum of 125% on the volume control (bottom right):
I ...
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Where are the Vista/Win7 Volume Mixer settings stored?
Vista/Win7 appear to persist the sound level settings per application. I'd like to have a look at that list.
The reason?
According to a Microsoft blog, the settings are stored against the PID of the ...
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How to disable microphone auto increase in volume?
My friend on Skype constantly has his microphone volume increased automatically. After he says something in a loud voice the microphone goes back to normal. This also happens on RaidCall.
It seems ...
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Is it possible to mute your computer through the command-line interface? [duplicate]
Currently, I can press the mute button on my keyboard, making my sound turn off. Is it possible to do this through cmd.exe so that I can run it with other things I have in that program?
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Headphone jack not working in Windows 7
My headphone jack doesn't work under Windows 7 64 bit.
I tried the following things:
3 different headphones speakers
2 different versions of the Realtek driver (2.7 / 2.6)
Standard Windows 7 ...
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Increase granularity, range and curvature of the volume control slider
There is a common problem for USB speakers (such as Logitech SBS-150 in my case, for which Logitech provides no solution) and headphones- they are too loud. When you use the Windows volume control ...
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How can I make the sound direction from an application "move" with the window position?
I currently use 3 monitors to efficiëntly use multiple windows and applications at the same time. This works very well for me in general, but I have a problem.
Sometimes a specific window, ...
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Automatically change system volume when audio device plugged in?
I have this notebook that I use both at work and at home. I often watch a movie at home with my headset plugged in and the volume high enough to be able to hear it well. At work however I listen to my ...
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How to disable Windows system sounds - permanently - but not application sound
I prefer the sound scheme of Windows 7 HP to be set to "No Sounds" ALL the time. The problem is, when I switch themes, the themes switch sound schemes also. I know I can go in and disable/change to "...
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Keyboard macro to change default audio device
Windows 7, Logitech G110 keyboard
2 audio devices (headphones and speakers)
I am hoping to find a quick way to macro a key to switch to headphones, and a key to switch to speakers.
Anyone have a ...
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How can I check the video/audio format for a MKV file?
I have a MKV video file. Can you please tell me how I can find out the video/audio codec of that file, and how I can find out if it is 1080p or 1080i?
I have a Windows 7 desktop PC.
Thank you.
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How to disable sound in certain applications?
I hate it when games sometimes play music while being installed.
Is there an easy way to ban selected applications from outputting sound on Windows 7?
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Is it possible to switch between earphones and built-in monitor speakers?
When I plug my earphones into the front panel of my CPU, I get sounds from my earphones. When I unplug it, it goes to the default built-in speakers of the monitor.
Is it possible to set through a ...
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Win7 - mute sound in mixer for particular application by keyboard shortcut
I was wondering whether there is a way to mute / unmute a particular application in the mixer by a keyboard shortcut.
So e.g. by CTRL M W to mute / unmute the sound of Winamp. I am not asking about ...
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How do I amplify the volume of Windows?
In my laptop, some YouTube videos have a too low volume to hear anything. I'm forced to download the video and play it in MPlayer where I can use -softvol to increate the volume.
Is there any ...
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Is there a way to control bass and treble under Windows 7?
My volume control device for my speakers recently decided to stop working so now I am forced to control the volume through purely software means, but my sub-woofer is still a little too loud.
Is ...
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What is the difference between directaudio and windows audio session
Which of these (directaudio/windows audio session) has better quality? What other differences do these have.
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How to send VLC Player audio to headphones rather than PC speaker?
Similar to this question, except I'm on Windows 7. That question also has no accepted answer, and the answer doesn't work for me.
I've tried all the different "Output Module" settings in the Audio ...
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How to feed my speaker to my microphone?
I am chatting on gtalk and want the following things to happen:
I am listening a song in Windows Media Player and I want my friend on the gtalk to hear what I am playing on my PC simultaneously I ...
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Make headphone output mono
my headphones are stereo but I would like the sound from the left and right to be combined then sent to both headphones.
The reason is I'm watching a video where the people speaking are in the right ...
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Free solution to create a virtual sound device in Windows? (Skype speakers both virtual and real)
Trying to learn how to record a Skype conversation, I found here that this can be done on a Mac with Audacity and other free applications (by adding an aggregated device and a multi-output device in ...
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How to play the sound from the microphone?
I would like to amplify my voice using the computer. My Windows won't play the audio from the mic by default. How to configure it to do so? Should I use some app? Which one?
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Good Text-to-Speech solution for Windows [closed]
I am running Windows 7 and I know it has the ability to read me text in my applications, but I am looking for a good utility to save chunks of text as a wav file or mp3. It may already be built into ...
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How can I output audio to both of my monitors simultaneously in Windows 7?
I have 2 monitors both plugged in via DisplayPort. Both monitors also have HDMI inputs, but I am only using the DisplayPort inputs. They are plugged into the same discrete graphics card.
My computer ...
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Does VirtualBox support line in and the microphone?
I am running windows 7 on my host which has the microphone working just fine but I cannot get the mic to work under any guest (I have tried Ubuntu 10.4 and Windows XP). I am beginning to think that ...
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Windows 7 laptop's volume with headphones way too loud
I have two headphones, neither has any amps or volume control, and both have the same problem with this computer. I normally have the volume on 10%, and that is optimal. I'm still very afraid that ...
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Can I increase the sound volume in my computer (Windows 7) beyond the volume control?
Can I increase the sound volume in my computer beyond the volume control without additional hardware or speakers?
In Windows, I feel many video files sound very low even after increasing the volume ...
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Possible way to determine which application generates certain sounds on my system?
Every now and then (e.g. twice a day) I hear a strange - brief - sound on my computer (Windows 7), that I believe to be from a background application like Windows Live Messenger, Teamviewer, Skype or ...
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How to make Windows 7's volume mixer save individual volumes again? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where are the Vista/Win7 Volume Mixer settings stored?
Windows 7's volume mixer is normally saving the volume levels for individual programs, as long as the exe file doesn't ...
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How can I set my headphones to mono in Windows 7? [duplicate]
I have this series of lectures on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NxCUVltVoZ8
… which I hear using headphones, but only the left side is working, and it's quite ...
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Scrolling mouse sets windows sound volume
Suddenly, when I use the scroll wheel of my mouse, it changes the windows sound volume level.
I have a HP DV6-2030SD laptop with Windows 7 64 bit and a Zolid p50622 mouse. When I use the scroll ...
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Normalize volume of all my computer hardware and software?
For my computer, there are a dozen different ways to adjust the volume in various ways and on various levels using both software and hardware. The following things have individual volume controls:
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Real-time Noise Suppression & Echo Cancellation software for Windows 7 [closed]
I used to have a motherboard with Realtek HD Audio drivers. Although the driver and bundled software were clunky, annoying, and redundant, surprisingly it had features for Noise Suppression and Echo ...
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How to restart audio without rebooting (USB soundcard) - the nasty case
I have a very similar problem to this: Is there a way to restart audio without restarting a Windows 7 computer?
I've got a USB external sound card (Line6 UX1, the older one), the OS is Windows 7 x64. ...
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Sound goes through speakers eventhough headphone is plugged in on HP notebook
I have a HP Pavilion dv4-1101tu notebook. Currently it is running on Windows 7. All devices are installed correctly with their driver softwares.
When I make a call over Skype with my headphone ...
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How do I adjust the Windows 7 volume control over a smaller range?
I am currently using the Microsoft High Definition Audio driver provided with Windows 7 rather than the Realtek driver. When playing sound through my computer speakers (plugged into the rear panel ...
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Where did the volume control options go in Windows 7?
XP's sndvol32 sound mixer used to feature individual volume controls such as Wave, SW Synth and CD Player, PC Speaker or PCM SPDIF among others. These could be set hidden or visible under it's menu ...
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Record sound from a single aplication
I need to be able to record the sound from a single application (in this case minecraft) without the recording containing any other sounds from other applications.
I cannot just mute the applications ...
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how do I make my computer only play through my speaker even if headphones are plugged in?
My mini-jack input is broken, so my computer(HP pavilion dv6 Notebook) thinks there is headphones plugged in at all times. If I physically press lightly on the headphone intput location, speakers ...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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Buzzing noise feedback from speakers when large amounts of text present on monitor?
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous question I've ever asked. I'm not a tech novice by any means whatsoever, but I'm also definitely not crazy.
This has been going on for quite some time now ...
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Reducing volume of an audio device on windows 7
I have a USB headset with a very loud amplifier, but low granularity in its gain control. In order to get comfortable audio, I have to reduce the individual application levels in the mixer to '1', and ...
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Windows 7/8 no sound (after ubuntu dual boot)
So my brother has a Asus laptop(old) which came with Vista Ult. When Win 7 was released i installed it and everything worked fine (all the drivers). Then my brother tried dual booting it Win7 and ...
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Switch speaker configuration between stereo and 5.1 using shortcut
I'm trying to find a way to quickly change speaker configuration between 5.1 and stereo in Windows 7; anything that I will be able to make a shortcut of on the desktop for quick access.
The issue ...
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FFmpeg: can't capture audio from microphone
I use FFmpeg under Windows 7 to stream live video. There are no problems with the camera, but for some reason I can't capture sound from the microphone (I've tested it, it works fine).
I use the -...
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How to get volume hotkeys in W7?
Windows 7 implemented new Win+X hotkeys. These took over the hotkeys used by Sound Volume Hotkeys http://www.softarium.com/soundvolumehotkeys, which I used to use in XP.
I need software control of my ...
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VirtualBox Windows 7 Host, XP Guest cannot play audio
As the subject says, I cannot get an XP guest to produce sound on my Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit host. Sound works fine in the host OS.
If I set the host audio driver to "Null Audio Driver" and the ...
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Previewing audio files in Windows Explorer [closed]
Is there any program that can play audio files by right click/mouse hover directly in Windows Explorer?
**Update:**Please introduce other apps (if any).
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