Please send me On Sat, 17 Aug, 2024, 9:36 pm Yamuna Jivana Dasa, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Friends, > > If anyone is interested, I’ve created a folder with shortcuts to the most > important native sound control Apps in Windows 10. Very useful. I’m just > including notes below so you can see what this is all about and why it will > be useful, particularly for distributing audio to different audio devices > on your system. > > > > If you have multiple audio streams, from your screen-readers, music > players, web browsers, system sounds Etc, and you want to route each of > these differently, such as to headphones, to your system’s internal sound > card’s attached speakers, to high-end speakers attached to an external > audio interface Etc., then this will be extremely useful to you. > > > > If you move this folder to your Desktop , it will be easily available in > case you need to adjust your system’s volumes, app volumes, selecting which > devices to act as default devices, listening to inputs received into the > computer to select outputs on your system, and selecting apps to play to > different audio device outputs when those apps do not have their own > ability to choose audio devices, as is the case with the Chrome browser for > example. > > > > Normally, all these functions are accessible from different sound control > platforms built into Windows: from the Settings dialog, from the control > panel and from the system tray, so I found that having them all in one > place is quite handy. So this is why I decided to make a shortcut folder > with all of them in one place. > > > > So here’s the brief notes below. If you would like this Shortcuts folder > drop me a private message. The notes Text file will also be included in > that folder. > > > > Included in this package are the following Desktop Shortcuts. For the more > tech-savvy among us, I include the executable paths following each > application name. Notes are provided after each item: > > > > 1. Open Volume Mixer > > %windir%\System32\SndVol.exe > > Notes: > > This App allows us to control the volume for each of the apps currently > playing audio. Tab to and press down-arrow over the Split button to reveal > the different audio devices and their associated Apps playing audio that > can have their volume adjusted. > > > > 2. Control Panel | Change Sound Card Settings > > control mmsys.cpl > > Notes: > > Here you have more control over "playback" and "recording" devices under > their own tabs. The list view shows each device on the machine and a "Set > default" button if the device is not currently the default device. The > Properties button reveals further settings for the selected device selected > in the List view. The Properties dialog reveals settings under different > tabs: the "Listen to device" tab, the levels tab and advanced tab Etc > depending on the device being configured. > > > > 3. Advanced sound options App volume and device preferences > > ms-settings:sound. > > Notes: > > It is not possible to reach the dialog directly, so the shortcut takes us > to another Sound settings dialog, from where we tab 10 times and hit Enter > to reach the App volume and device preferences dialog. > > From that dialog, we tab to the Input Listbox which reveals any apps > currently playing back audio. We arrow to that device, press space bar to > select it before tabbing further to more controls, in particular the > Output combo box which allows us to choose the audio device on the computer > to which to send that App audio. > > Remember if the App itself allows us to select its own audio device, then > that will over-ride this function. Unless it was previously changed for the > App, the output is usually set to the system default device, but it seems > to be remembered when changed here, for future sessions. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Yamuna Jivana dasa > > -- > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. 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