Automatic volume leveling during audio playback

Anonymous
2009-11-05T13:16:13+00:00

This is really annoying:

Quiet sound is amplified to sound at a reasonable level. Then when a loud part of the song comes on the level automatically drops making the quiet parts sound annoyingly loud & the loud part annoyingly quiet... Sorry that's the best way I can describe this... again:

Only happens when its had a few seconds on silent (eg. pause) - at that point the system starts to "think" for itself creeping the base volumes up. Then when the song begins again you are treated to loudness that is quickly quietened when the system realises there is a higher level of sound coming through...

This is very frustrating because I use my computer to record & as such need to have the audio playing at its proper level - not the level the computer thinks it should be playing at...

I have combed through the settings looking for an "auto off" option, and have spent a long time searching for an answer online. 

Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2009-11-05T22:23:05+00:00

Hi pablo647,

Welcome to Microsoft Windows 7 Answers Forum!

We would like to get a little more information from you to help troubleshoot your issue.

Are you using any Sound Card on the machine?

You can try playing the same song to a differnet Headphone or the Speakers.

I suspect it could be a problem with the sound card drivers.

You can update the drivers for the sound devices and try after that.

  1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.
  2. Click System and Maintenance, click System, and then click Device Manager.

Note If Control Panel is in Classic View, double-click System, and then click Device Manager.

  1. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
  2. In Device Manager, expland "Sound Video and Game controllers", right-click the "Sound Video and Game controllers" and go to properties.
  3. Browse to the Update tab and then click on update driver.

You may also check on the Sound card manufacturers web site and verify if they have any updated drivers for Windows 7 and try to install it.   

Hope it helps.  

Thanks and Regards:

Shekhar S - Microsoft Support.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-11-15T15:52:23+00:00

    I've got windows 7 (64-bit) with and without service packs (variations for custom purposes, ie a DAW, general workhorse, DEV Studio...) and none of them exhibit this problematic behaviour. I'm blaming your "sound manufacturer" / windows settings...

    running dell xps l502x, powered by realtek.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-03T12:59:26+00:00

    Hi all,

    Now I stay HAPPY listening my favorite music, http://www.asio4all.com/ resolve atomaticaly audio level control BUG on Windows 8.

    Was be installed ASIO driver, and foobar2000 plugin for ASIO support.

    Problem Solved!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-21T17:22:07+00:00

    Dear.IDK

    The way i Fixed it was i went into DTS Sound and my sound card is from Skull Candy In dts there was an option for volume leveling

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-06-28T10:50:52+00:00

    Hi Everyone!

    A kind of solution for Realtek Audio Driver users

    I have an Asus X200MA laptop with Windows 7 Professional 64bit system on it and with Realtek audio driver that I downloaded from asus.com (like all other drivers, since the laptop disk drivers are for windows 8): Realtek Audio Driver Version V6.0.1.7179. I also had this auto-volume problem and ended up here but solved it quite easily.

    I only readed the first 3 pages of this topic.

    The right-click on volume control\playback devices\speakers etc. and the other solutions written on those pages didn't work, however I found this solution (somehow I thought that it will be driver\software problem):

    The installation path of Realtek audio driver for my windows: C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\ - here is a file list in this folder:

    AERTSr64.exe

    BlackBlueSkinImages64.dll

    BlackSkinImages64.dll

    DarkSkinImages64.dll

    DTSAudioService64.exe

    DTSU2PAuSrv64.exe

    FMAPP.exe

    MaxxAudioControl64.exe

    RAVBg64.exe

    RAVCpl64.exe

    RtkAudioService64.exe

    RtkNGUI64.exe

    RtlUpd64.exe

    vncutil64.exe

    1. Open "MaxxAudioControl64.exe"
    2. Click on your selected audio mode, in our case "OFF" (the "Music Mode" was set for me as default... Did the programmer try to listen to music with this mode I wonder...)

    The opened file looks like this.

    1. Close the application

    And that's it. You don't have to uninstall\disable anything.

    Hope this solves the auto-volume problem for someones.

    Greets, Daniel

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