I have two sound cards, one (A) set as my Windows default sound card, and the other (B) used only for MC feed to my home stereo. When I choose any of the MC Sound Output modes (wave out, direct sound, asio) and select card (B) as the output device, the sound comes out of (B) successfully but the MC volume control does nothing to (B). It instead changes the volume of card (A), which can be seen in the windows sound control panel for card (A). This problem has been happening on every version of MC that I have tried.
I found that if I switch the windows default sound card to (B), then the MC volume control works. So for at least me the MC volume control only appears to control the windows default volume, not the card selected in MC. This isn't a great workaround for me because I'd rather not have things like the windows beep and the new mail indicator sounds coming out of my stereo system.
Is any one else having this problem?
To determine if maybe just my system is fouled up, I tried another sound app (Musicmatch), and found that when I select (B) as the app output device with (A) as the windows default it does change the (B) volume successfully. The volume level changes in the Windows Sound Control panel for (B) too in this case, so it's not like Musicmatch is just internally attenuating the signal sent to the sound card.
Any thoughts?
System Info:
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