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windows 7 sound mixer arrrrghhhhhghht

  • 09-12-2009 12:11am
    #1
    c-note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭


    Hey guys
    i've been using windows 7 for a week now. (moved from xp)

    i'm liking 7 quite a lot

    its visually nice but there are what i consider some RETARDED regressions in what i see as microsofts attempt to emulate mac's os
    i wont go into them now, most are minor but one is KILLING me....

    its do do with the audio mixer
    under xp, your physical sound card (or onboard codec) had a software mixer. it had a master volume and sliders for wave, synth and other physical inputs...
    whatever speakers you had plugged in to whatever outputs followed your MASTER volume..

    problem with windows 7:
    under "sounds" in control panel, every physical output is listed (as if it were a seperate device). as opposed to the sound card itself being listed.

    eg
    • speakers (the analogue mini jacks)
    • optical
    • spdif out
    • headphones out
    my speakers work over optical (toslink)
    for headphone i use the front panel connector on the case

    now if i want to switch from speakers to headphone in xp:
    i plug in headphones, and hear the sound, and turn off speakers if i want.

    in windows 7:
    i plud in headphones and hear nothing
    i have to go to control panel... set headphones as default device, and restart whatever app is generating the sound
    and to switch back to speakers i have to reset the optical out as the default device

    why oh why oh why is there no master control, so that the sound is outputted to all bloody outputs....which you could then adjust...

    in my humble opinion this is a RETARDED way to route audio within an operating system...
    so much so that if you'd told me this is how it would be... i wouldn't believe you... how could anyone be so retarded as to do that??

    i'm posting this in the hope that someone will read and reply
    "c-note you retard all you have to do to enable a master slider in order to control all outputs is: .........."


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