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[bunglemebaby]

Recently the MC volume has started dropping to around 5%-10% due to certain random circumstances. Today it is happening on my client machine which is linked to the Playing Now of my HTPC/Server. Every track change the volume drops down to inaudible levels. In addition to this the volume slider "fights" me when I try to turn it up using the mouse. It's as though some internal control is trying to turn it back down (but it pulls less hard than I do). I'm fairly baffled by all this and it seems like buggy behavior. Has anyone else experienced this or have suggestions for avoiding this?

[JimH]

Try turning off volume protection in options for audio.

[bunglemebaby]

This appears to be working. Thank you.

What is the purpose of "volume protection"? I thought it was related to the clip-protection feature found in DSP Studio, but clearly I was mistaken.

[Matt]

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Volume#Volume_Protection

[bunglemebaby]

Matt, based on the description in the Wiki there it seems like there might be some bugs involved here somewhere. I left details below. I'm not going to complain any as I don't feel an overwhelming need to keep the feature turned on, but if there's any further information that I could provide you, let me know.

Volume protection does the following:
Makes it so that it isn't possible to increase the volume by more than 5% at a time (so accidentally clicking 100% on the slider will not go to 100%)

For me, the volume seemed to actually decrease rather than avoid increasing. This could just be GUI issue though. I see a "spasming" volume slider when I click and pull.

Makes it so that starting playback if nothing has played for 30 minutes sets the volume to 20% (unless the volume is already lower)

I was definitely seeing the volume change between tracks in a playlist, so the "nothing playing for 30 minutes" bit was not being followed.

[Matt]

I was definitely seeing the volume change between tracks in a playlist, so the "nothing playing for 30 minutes" bit was not being followed.

I run Volume Protection at home and haven't seen this.

Can you reproduce this easily?  Any clues?  Could you send me a log (Help > Logging)?

Thanks.

[JimH]

Someone else said that it had to do with the track change effect in use.

[bunglemebaby]

I'm not at home currently, but the volume decrease on every track change was happening when using Linked Zones. If I have time tonight I'll try to produce a log.

My track change effect is set to "Crossfade Aggressive: 1s" for all my machines.

[bunglemebaby]

This problem seems to have gone away. My audio was not set up as I thought, so one noteworthy change might be that the crossfade has now actually been changed to "Crossfade Aggressive: 1s". It was at "Crossfade Agressive: 4s". The other change I made was to change from DirectSound to WASAPI: Event Style.