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cba191

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I just installed the media player and have a question
« on: July 17, 2015, 11:43:48 pm »

I'm in the process of ripping my library to FLAC, and have noticed something annoying and am wondering if I'm doing something wrong.  When I'm playing music through JRiver, I don't get audio from anything else in the system through the headphones.  Is there something I can do to enable that?  It worked fine using WMP, so I'm assuming it's a setting that I'm missing.  I like background music when I'm playing games.
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RoderickGI

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Re: I just installed the media player and have a question
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2015, 03:54:12 am »

You probably have MC set to an Exclusive Mode for audio, such as WASAPI Exclusive Mode. When you do that, MC has complete control over the audio output device, and nothing else can play to it.

If you want system and game sounds to be heard in addition to music from MC, you will need to output audio using a non-exclusive mode, and probably use Direct Sound rather than WASAPI. Of course, that will mean that Windows will do whatever it wants to your music, but that is the way Windows audio works.

Look under Options>Audio>Audio Device in MC.
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What specific version of MC you are running:MC27.0.27 @ Oct 27, 2020 and updating regularly Jim!                        MC Release Notes: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes
What OS(s) and Version you are running:     Windows 10 Pro 64bit Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.572).
The JRMark score of the PC with an issue:    JRMark (version 26.0.52 64 bit): 3419
Important relevant info about your environment:     
  Using the HTPC as a MC Server & a Workstation as a MC Client plus some DLNA clients.
  Running JRiver for Android, JRemote2, Gizmo, & MO 4Media on a Sony Xperia XZ Premium Android 9.
  Playing video out to a Sony 65" TV connected via HDMI, playing digital audio out via motherboard sound card, PCIe TV tuner

cba191

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Re: I just installed the media player and have a question
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2015, 04:32:23 am »

Thank you. I'll try that. For just basic use i can deal with Windows, for more involved listening, this it's good info.
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