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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:59:25 PDT7
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sound volume

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Peter Skye wrote:
> 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
>
Peter,
For no reason I know, system sounds worked better today. I haven't
finished testing, but I'll report when I've gone further.
Thanks,
Colin

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