You have addressed this before by saying set the volume to max and forget it. I am using an external renderer and audio system which I easily select at the start of any session of JRiver. I always use an external volume control and want JRiver's volume disabled. But this option disappears (from when I right click on the volume emblem) when I select my outside system. Why cannot this also maintain the disable feature here - almost no one using an external renderer wants to use JRiver to control volume (I should think)? Although I set the volume at max on the JRiver slider and forget it, sometimes it starts at min volume - slider all the way to left - for no reason I can see. When this happens I go nuts checking all the wiring, DAC settings etc and, like this morning, after about 15 minutes I discover the volume slider is all the way to the left. Again, why is the disable volume feature not available in the mode where most people want it disabled?