My balance is off.

[micky]

Definitey on topic for Xp.

I was looking for some way to figure out which tab in Firefox was
making sound, when I had two tabs doing it and I wanted to stop one of
them. (Does anyone know????) And I came across
http://www.indievolume.com/ . It doesn't control sound by tab but
it does by program. It has a trial version for free and after 15
days it's $25. Not sure it's worth it, since in Vista and W7 I'm told
Firefox includes a way to turn off Firefox sound, and I almost never
use IE.

However, this was very interesting. Indievolume allows one to lessen
or boost (separate controls) the default volume for each program, I
think so that volumes will stay the same when changing programs.

It also has a balance control for each program , and although the
balance was in the middle for FF, for IE and Media Player, it was all
the way to the left!!!! I have a temporary setup here and my
speakers are right next to each other, so I didn't notice this,, but
when I put the balance for Media Player in the middle, I think I
heard the right channel for the first time!!! I don't pay attention
to a lot of things so it might have been the first time in years. (I
also used to use Real more, but that's not even installed now. )

I looked at Media Player and it has no balance control afaict. So how
did it get all the way to the left. And what about IE? And what
about other programs I don't have.

I don't know what will happen when the 15 day trial is up. I have 13
more days. Will the sound go back to being unbalanced.

What's up with this?

 

[micky]

Definitey on topic for Xp.

I was looking for some way to figure out which tab in Firefox was
making sound, when I had two tabs doing it and I wanted to stop one of
them. (Does anyone know????) And I came across
http://www.indievolume.com/ . It doesn't control sound by tab but
it does by program. It has a trial version for free and after 15
days it's $25. Not sure it's worth it, since in Vista and W7 I'm told
Firefox includes a way to turn off Firefox sound, and I almost never
use IE.

However, this was very interesting. Indievolume allows one to lessen
or boost (separate controls) the default volume for each program, I
think so that volumes will stay the same when changing programs.

It also has a balance control for each program , and although the
balance was in the middle for FF, for IE and Media Player, it was all
the way to the left!!!! I have a temporary setup here and my
speakers are right next to each other, so I didn't notice this,, but
when I put the balance for Media Player in the middle, I think I
heard the right channel for the first time!!! I don't pay attention
to a lot of things so it might have been the first time in years. (I
also used to use Real more, but that's not even installed now. )

I looked at Media Player and it has no balance control afaict. So how
did it get all the way to the left. And what about IE? And what
about other programs I don't have.

BTW, I had long made sure that in MS Volume Controle all the inputs
and outputs had their balance in the center.

 

[Paul]

Definitey on topic for Xp.

I was looking for some way to figure out which tab in Firefox was
making sound, when I had two tabs doing it and I wanted to stop one of
them. (Does anyone know????) And I came across
http://www.indievolume.com/ . It doesn't control sound by tab but
it does by program. It has a trial version for free and after 15
days it's $25. Not sure it's worth it, since in Vista and W7 I'm told
Firefox includes a way to turn off Firefox sound, and I almost never
use IE.

However, this was very interesting. Indievolume allows one to lessen
or boost (separate controls) the default volume for each program, I
think so that volumes will stay the same when changing programs.

It also has a balance control for each program , and although the
balance was in the middle for FF, for IE and Media Player, it was all
the way to the left!!!! I have a temporary setup here and my
speakers are right next to each other, so I didn't notice this,, but
when I put the balance for Media Player in the middle, I think I
heard the right channel for the first time!!! I don't pay attention
to a lot of things so it might have been the first time in years. (I
also used to use Real more, but that's not even installed now. )

I looked at Media Player and it has no balance control afaict. So how
did it get all the way to the left. And what about IE? And what
about other programs I don't have.

I don't know what will happen when the 15 day trial is up. I have 13
more days. Will the sound go back to being unbalanced.

What's up with this?

In Windows Media Player, try View : Enhancements : Graphic Equalizer.
In mine, there is a Balance control in there.

While there are some preferences stored in here, I don't know what
the one labeled "Balance" does. Perhaps you could check the value
before and after modifying the control in the window. You'd use
Regedit to view this.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences

Paul

 

[micky]

This post is just information. I don't know if it's important or
not, but probably not. It's definitely unrelated to my prime goal,
finding the tab in Friefox that is making sound, my big goal.

In Windows Media Player, try View : Enhancements : Graphic Equalizer.
In mine, there is a Balance control in there.

Wow, I didn't know about that at all. Interestingly, changing from
Rock to Dance to Swing to Music 56K changed the sound, but changing
the balance seemed to make no change. Of course the speakers are
right next to each other and in this temporary location, I can't
change that.

While there are some preferences stored in here, I don't know what
the one labeled "Balance" does. Perhaps you could check the value
before and after modifying the control in the window. You'd use
Regedit to view this.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences

I found that and did that, and this value stayed at zero no matter
what I did with the Media Player balance, and no matter what I did
with the IndieVolume balance for Media Player. And not only that
changing the WMP balance had no effect on IndieVolume balance for WMP
nor did the latter affect the former.

Plus there is a line in IndieVolume for every program that is running,
even though that make no soundsl And it provides a balance
control for Firefox and IE, neither of which have their own balance
controls afaik. (Esp. FF. I don't know much about IE) Unless it is
somewhere in Javascript.

IndieVolumes only works for XP. It has a check boxes that control
if IndieV "handles" each program, and within that, whether it handles
Device, Balance, Volume, Mute, and FX. And it has the ability to
add FX (sound effects?) to any program, on a prorgram by program
basis. Like Soundblaster does to sound, iiuc.