Control volume of WMP from in game

Samfau2

Samfau2

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I like to listen to my music when playing some of my games. However, some of the tracks in my music collection a lower volume than others or some are quite a bit louder

So, for example, ill be driving along in burnout paradise and a song will come on that i can barely hear or one that is way too loud, i have to minimise my game and turn the volume up/down in windows media player or change the sfx volume level in game.

Is there any way i can set up a little script or something and map it to a button so that i can adjust the volume easily without interrupting my gameplay? Or any other ideas?
 
if your keyboard has a control to increase/decrease volume that would do it, it wouldnt effect the game, no minimise required.

If its a m$ kb and you have intellitype installed you may be able to remap some of the other keys to perform the function.

For example, some kbs have buttons to go forward and backwards in the web browser. just remap those.
 
hideki said:
if your keyboard has a control to increase/decrease volume that would do it, it wouldnt effect the game, no minimise required.
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I'm pretty sure the keyboard volume keys control global Windows volume, not just WMP.

What you can do is use foobar and assign F11 and F12 to control volume for foobar, and keep the volume keys to control overall Windows volume.
 
yeah i have an ms keyboard and the vol control is global.

Nice tip on foobar, i think i have that installed anyways but didnt know about the volume hotkeys. Might have to start using it more, cheers mate.
 
I'd reccomend scrapping WMP and running replaygain on your music, and playing with a RG enabled player. It'll average out the volumes of all your music via a tag, not effecting quality or actaully editing the files.

This means it's no longer a problem.
 
f11/f12 didnt work in foobar, had a quick look in prefs to see if i could set the hotkeys but i couldnt see anything, will play around with it later.

As for ReplayGain, that sounds good and would save me a lot of hassle. Any decent rg enabled players you can recommend?
 
Samfau2 said:
f11/f12 didnt work in foobar, had a quick look in prefs to see if i could set the hotkeys but i couldnt see anything, will play around with it later.

As for ReplayGain, that sounds good and would save me a lot of hassle. Any decent rg enabled players you can recommend?
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Foobar has full ReplayGain support.

And it definately lets you fully customise hotkeys, you probably missed it in the preferences.
 
i saw mediamonkey supported it too, used that before and kind of liked it so might give that a try. Only thing i liked about wmp was it sat in my taskbar rather nicely and then track names popped up when i used my keyboard media controls
 
If youve got an ipod/mp3 player, you could try plugging it into the line in on your soundcard

that way you dont have to have anything running in the background
 
I use Winamp and the global control keys. Also has a teamspeak plugin so when people talk it pauses or lowers the volume of the music temporarly.

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ok well right now im am loving winamp. Ive always assumed i wont like it (not sure why) but its great, i love the little osd that pops up when it changes track and its just so easy to navigate to the music you want.

works perfectly in game too.

wikipedia says its replaygain supported. Is it automatic or do i have to set this up at all?
 
Correction, the play/pause, skip, stop etc hotkeys work fine (might be because they are actualy multimedia controls on my keyboard.

But the vol control aint working in game. I've tried setting it to a few different key combos and none of them seem to work.
 
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