PlaySound volume?

[Mark Jones]

Is there a way to set the volume of a sound played with PlaySound? Or any alternatives? Thx. :)

[hitchhikr]

No.
Use directsound or the waveOut* stuff.
Browse for examples.

[Tedd]

I think you'll have to use winmm to set the waveout volume, then play the sound, then put the volume back again.
Which isn't really a nice solution.

[thomasantony]

Hi,
  I think you can use

mixerOpen
mixerGetControlDetails with MIXER_GETLINECONTROLSF_ONEBYTYPE and MIXER_GETCONTROLDETAILSF_VALUE

and

mixerSetControlDetails with MIXER_GETCONTROLDETAILSF_VALUE
mixerClose

Look it up in MSDN

Thomas :U

[GregL]

Mark,

I know it's not exactly what you wanted to do, but here is an example of setting the speaker volume.



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[Mark Jones]

Cool, thanks for the ideas guys. :)

[GregL]

Mark,

You can set the volume for other devices by changing the constant in this line in the program I posted:

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mov eax, MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_DST_SPEAKERS   ; Set device to work with here


Constants for other devices:

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MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_DST_SPEAKERS     = Speakers
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_DST_LINE         = Line Out
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_SRC_LINE         = Line In
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_SRC_MICROPHONE   = Mic In
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_SRC_COMPACTDISC  = CD In
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_DST_WAVEIN       = Wave In (ADC)
MIXERLINE_COMPONENTTYPE_SRC_WAVEOUT      = Wave Out (DAC)


You can also set bass, treble, balance etc.

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