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[Brak]

Does anyone know how to suppress system sounds and sounds from other programs while playing music or videos (using MJ 8 & Win XP Pro)?  Didn't MJ 7 have an option to unlock the sound card when playback was stopped but the program was open?  I can't find this in MJ 8, so maybe it's not taking full enough control over my sound card (or full enough for my tastes, anyway).  

There has to be some way to convince Windows XP that you want certain software to play sounds but nothing else.  The very worst offender has to be Internet Explorer.  I'll be listening to music and surfing and come across a web site that blasts noisy advertising right over my music.  In a word, this sucks.  Yes, I could switch browsers, but IE isn't the only offender, just the worst.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

[Trelane]

For IE, disable its ability to play sounds within a web page. To do this, go to Tools -> Internet Options, click Advanced and look for the option in the multimedia section.

This doesn't solve the problem on pages that use Flash ads. You could uninstall Flash, but you'd run into trouble on this site. The only reason I have Flash in the first place is because it's used here.

Mike
Listening to: 'Lies Of Angels' from 'Razing Eden' by 'LUXT' on Media Jukebox

[Brak]

Yeah, that works to kill midi sounds and the like on web pages, and I too would love to throw Flash out into the freeway and let cars run over it all day.  But what about otherwise useful sounds that play during music playback?  For instance, I normally don't mind hearing error beeps, but not when I'm listening to music (or watching a movie).  And, yes, I've slimmed down my system sounds to what I consider to be a minimum.  Stuff like low battery warnings and even the new e-mail sound are pretty useful.  Most of the time.  

I've hunted through every Windows annoyance and tip site I can find and read every article in the MS Knowledge Base on sound under XP (there are only like 10 so far, so they were of zero help), but can't figure out how to lock my sound card to a particular program when it is running.  The big deal about Win XP is that it's supposed to provide a complete software layer between applications and hardware, right?  So that should mean that it's an OS, not application, issue.  But, since MJ used to do this very thing under previous versions of Windows, I'm hoping that someone here might have a clue on how to make it happen all over again.  

I guess what I really want is to regain some control over my computer.  Even though I've disabled almost all of the "helpful" crap that came with XP, the only easily accessible changes are mostly cosmetic.  Behind the scenes it's still up to no good.  And I don't even know where to start figuring out what it's really doing.  

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.  Any others?

[phatrabt]

I'm gonna bump this since I would like to know this too...  It's kind of annoying to have the Windows sounds blaring through the speakers when trying to listen to an mp3...  how about it guys?

[gkerber]

I bought a new sound card for a digital connection to my audio system preamp, and left the old $9 sound card in, and left is as the default sound device in Windows XP.  Then in MJ, in the options->playback->output->settings I selected my new sound card for MJ output.

Now MJ plays through the new sound card, sending it's digital output to my preamp, and all other sounds from my computer go to the cheap sound card and the speakers I've got connected to it.

Before I figured this out, I had the same problem, all windows noises blasted out of all the speakers all over my house!