Volume Control VB.NET

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Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask a question, I have an application and I wanted to lower the volume of only the application not master volume of windows.Is there anyway do to it.
Btw Im playing a wav file in the background.

Thanks.

Posted 18-Jun-12 6:41am

ShinigamiXoY

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-12 13:03pm

I appreciate this question, my 5.

I hope I re-addressed this question to a right person:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22953/A-Synchronized-Volume-Control-for-your-Application?msg=4284245#xx4284245xx.

--SA

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Tim Corey · Answer 1 · 2012-06-18T08:03:00

It seems as though the new sound APIs in Vista (and beyond) were rewritten but still have the same interfaces. That means that old code will still work with the new APIs. However, the one change that was introduced was to make the volume changes per-application instead of system-wide (via the master volume). Here is an article that talks more about that:

http://beta.codeproject.com/Articles/18520/Vista-Core-Audio-API-Master-Volume-Control[^]

It would seem as though you could use this to your advantage by writing your code to work to the old interface, thus making it application-specific. You would need to use it on a Vista or later machine but since it would still work on XP (just not be application-specific) it wouldn't be that big an issue (in my opinion). I don't know of anything that allows application-specific sound settings in XP.

alacoustic · Answer 2 · 2014-07-19T02:01:00

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Tim Hi, the article link that you had pasted seems to be dead. Can you please post a new link?

http://beta.codeproject.com/Articles/18520/Vista-Core-Audio-API-Master-Volume-Control[^]

Thanks,

Posted 19-Jul-14 2:01am

alacoustic

alacoustic · Answer 3 · 2014-07-19T02:05:00

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Hi,

Just found a link that talks about something similar;

Vista Core Audio API Master Volume Control[^]

Best regards,

Posted 19-Jul-14 2:05am