Real Player volume control also controls & overrides Media Player Volume ?

[John2005]

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

 

[dobey]

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.