Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Balance Preserving Audio Control #186

Closed
Ichisich opened this issue Apr 26, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #496
Closed

Balance Preserving Audio Control #186

Ichisich opened this issue Apr 26, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #496
Labels
enhancement New feature or request Windows BUG Bug comes from Windows

Comments

@Ichisich
Copy link

Windows has the quirk to reset the balance settings when lowering the volume to 0.

To illustrate, lowering the volume to 2 keeps the balance:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31080003/165258195-50adf903-9af6-4e36-9294-75e547ade386.mp4

Lowering to 0 resets the balance:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31080003/165258250-3eef6be6-815c-426b-bdde-ffda2343e1bd.mp4

Muting also keeps the balance:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31080003/165258320-7443a589-4aa0-4ed2-85b7-e8bef34e9a2e.mp4

To counter this quirk, I adapted my autohotkey-script to mute instead of lowering the volume from 2 to 0.

AppsKey & PgDn::
SoundGet, Volume
if (Volume >= 4)
{
Send {Volume_Down}
return
} else {
Send {Volume_Mute}
return
}

Would be nice if Altsnap could handle volume control similar.

@RamonUnch
Copy link
Owner

Interesting, I never realized this bug was here. It seems it was already there even on Windows XP/7 and I guess Microsoft is not going to fix it, so better avoid it as you suggest.
I guess Microsoft considers this like a feature.

@RamonUnch RamonUnch added enhancement New feature or request Windows BUG Bug comes from Windows labels Apr 30, 2022
@RamonUnch
Copy link
Owner

AltSnap1.62test20_x64.zip

Should fix it.
When you decrease volume it will mute instead of setting to Zero.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request Windows BUG Bug comes from Windows
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue.

2 participants