Universal volume levelling

manveruppd · 23 Aug 2008 at 20:30

Isn't there any little application anywhere that equalises your volume across the OS and all applications? Every music player I've ever tried has this function, but stuff like system sounds or DVDs are often recorded at wildly unequal volumes. I'm sick of turning the volume all the way up to make a movie barely audible and then get deafened by a Windows error message.

Please don't say get a Mac

Pilky01 · 23 Aug 2008 at 20:33

Vista volume thingy? mute everything but whatever you listening to.

manveruppd · 24 Aug 2008 at 00:28

Nah, I'm on XP. What I'm looking for is something that'll make Winamp, PowerDVD, VLC Player, and all of Windows's system sounds all play at roughly the same volume, so that if I turn up the volume to watch a movie file that's been recorded really low I won't be deafened next time I get an email

Floyd · 24 Aug 2008 at 00:37

My Creative X-fi supports this. There is an SVM function the controls the dynamic range of all the audio sources, have a look in your soundcards settings application for something similar

manveruppd · 24 Aug 2008 at 00:58

That's pretty handy, unfortunately I'm on crappy C-media on-board sound, and their drivers focus on providing much more useful functions, such as simulated environments includign bathtub and stone corridors or automatic transposition of music for karaoke purposes....

Floyd · 24 Aug 2008 at 01:19

TRy using Media Player Classic? I believe it supports this feature

asim18 · 24 Aug 2008 at 01:24

manveruppd said:
Please don't say get a Mac

Get vista?

Ascendancy · 24 Aug 2008 at 02:23

Floyd said:
TRy using Media Player Classic? I believe it supports this feature

Way to read the OP.

manveruppd · 24 Aug 2008 at 02:46

asim18 said:
Get vista?

Touché, sir, touché!

SexyGreyFox · 24 Aug 2008 at 13:52

If you've got a volume icon in your taskbar double click on it and turn the WAV down.
You must have a mixer somewhere.

Floyd · 26 Aug 2008 at 10:06

Ascendancy said:
Way to read the OP.

He said he had found music players with this feature, not anything that plays video files. If the video files audio is amped to a level similar as the windows error noises etc then it will achieve his goal surely?

Ascendancy · 26 Aug 2008 at 13:47

Floyd said:
He said he had found music players with this feature, not anything that plays video files. If the video files audio is amped to a level similar as the windows error noises etc then it will achieve his goal surely?

manveruppd said:
Isn't there any little application anywhere that equalises your volume across the OS and all applications? Every music player I've ever tried has this function, but stuff like system sounds or DVDs are often recorded at wildly unequal volumes. I'm sick of turning the volume all the way up to make a movie barely audible and then get deafened by a Windows error message.

Please don't say get a Mac

bledd · 26 Aug 2008 at 14:23

i always disable all windows sounds to avoid this..