Winamp volume issue

[Azor']

Dear staff members,

since yesterday I have a volume problem with my winamp free version. I was listening some music, when suddenly the volume of music dropped, at first I though that it's the song... I changed the track, same... I played a movie, same, checked the volume in my PC and it was the same. Next I went to Youtube and played something just to hear the sound and the difference is big, like 50% bigger. Today I re-installed the free winamp and have the same issue. If I drop the volume in winamp from 100% to 70% the sound almost mute. I don't understand what can be wrong here. My PC volume is fine, other players have like 50% higher volume then winamp itself when I play it.
Please help me out, I can't stay in quiet at my home place, there is always a song what we listen.
In conclusion:
Winamp has lost from his volume like 50% in parallel with any other players, where, winamp volume is 100% (at 60-70% almost mute himself), if I give more volume to my winamp it's ok, but if I play something (i.e. a movie with another player) would be extremely loud and have problems with my neighbors.

Thank you for your time.

[MrSinatra]

what windows ver?

did u check the windows mixer?

win7 has a crap feature to lower volume when u get a chat call, and raise it after the call, but i find it doesn't work properly, so i disable it.

[Azor']

Originally Posted by MrSinatra

what windows ver?

did u check the windows mixer?

win7 has a crap feature to lower volume when u get a chat call, and raise it after the call, but i find it doesn't work properly, so i disable it.

Indeed it does that the win7, but it's not that problem. And all volume in my PC is at max even at players, the only volume that I give is from my 5.1 system. So if I play a movie in bsplayer the volume is much higher then the music at winamp. This just happened from nowhere (the winamp volume issue), I didn't even was at my PC, my monitor was turned off and the music was on; really don't know what to do or what to check, I though some dll file become corrupted or a bad uptade or something but non of that.
It was fine so far, I have win7 64bit like 3 months now and had no problem with this winamp just now.
I'm really pi##ed off cos this was the player where I was listening music, now if this matter can't be fixed I suppose that I will change to another player (if there is something like winamp).
Conclusion:
- all my volume in PC are at 100% and all players that I use have the same volume
- if I try to play winamp and them compare the sound loudness with i.e. Youtube or any other player, it's at lest 50% difference (that is winamp sound is 50% less then any other sound)

[Aminifu]

Hi Azor,

Some of the input and output plug-ins (official and 3rd party) have separate volume control ability. Check the configurations of each plug-in you have installed and disable their volume control options. The "in_midi.dll" and "out_ds.dll" come to mind (and the 3rd party "out_maiko.dll"), but there could be others.

You also did not confirm that it's not the Windows volume mixer keeping the max Winamp volume lower than other apps and/or system sounds.

[pjn123]

Azor

Don't know if this might be related to your problem but here goes:

Winamp have a bug where if you play any midi file your Windows volume control for Winamp (not your Windows main volume control and not your Winamp volume control - see pic) drops to something like 20%. You must change the volume in your system mixer if you want it back.

[Aminifu]

Originally Posted by pjn123

Azor
Winamp have a bug where if you play any midi file your Windows volume control for Winamp (not your Windows main volume control and not your Winamp volume control - see pic) drops to something like 20%. You must change the volume in your system mixer if you want it back.

Yes, and to keep it from happening again, the volume control in "in_midi.dll" must be disabled (set to "none").

[MrSinatra]

good tip, i just disabled mine so i don't fall victim, altho i think i changed my handful of midis to FLAC or mp3 some time ago.

i would like to know what the fix is for the OP tho.