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Date:	Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:07:28 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sound volume (was: Sort of proud of myself...)

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Colin Campbell wrote:
>
> Upon reboot, I have a very loud startup sound. However, when I opened
> "Local System", "System Setup", and "Sound" and tried to test various
> system sounds, they were quite faint. The volume control on my speakers
> is set to mark 2 out of 10, and I had the volume control in "Sound" set
> to 40%, 60%, and 70%. Regardless, the sounds were nearly inaudible.

The startup sound is okay so that rules out an incorrect audio cable
connection and seems to indicate that the driver is working. You
wouldn't hear *anything* if the driver was dead.

-- 1. Is it possible that the 8-bit system sound files which you test
with are being interpreted as the low-order bits of a 16-bit sound by
some software anomaly? I had this happen once. The sound will be 48 dB
quieter if this is the case.

-- 2. What happens when you test with a 16-bit sound file? What happens
when you use something like Z! to play sound files?

-- 3. Maybe the WPS is setting something incorrectly. What happens if
you boot to a command line and play sound files? I've never tried this
but it seems like it should work. I think Z! is a non-WPS program, it
sure looks like one, and thus could be used for this test. Z! is at
http://www.dink.org/ or skip the html and download
http://www.dink.org/files/z_test14.zip (30Apr2004) or the older
http://www.dink.org/files/z-2.7alpha3.zip (12Jan2003). You can also try
\MMOS2\PLAY.CMD but that's an old Rexx program and it (or the DLL it
uses) might not handle newer file formats properly.

- Peter

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