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Bengi010

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MC mutes all other audio, is there an easy override?
« on: April 13, 2012, 07:47:30 pm »

I use the ASIO output in MC which gives MC exclusive control of the soundcard, thus muting everything else.  I understand why, and 95% of the time I appreciate it.  However, sometimes I'm listening to music while browsing the internet and I want to hear something, a youtube video or whatever.  Is there anyway, some hotkey perhaps, to override the soundcard priority so that I don't have to shut down MC just to hear something else?
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Re: MC mutes all other audio, is there an easy override?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 08:36:27 pm »

You could create another playback zone and switch to that zone when you wanted to send audio output from other programs.  That zone could be for a different audio device or just DirectSound on the same device.

Then you could try to set up a smartkey to make the switch easier. (I don't use smartkeys so I can't help with that.)

Bill
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