Vista RC1:: Sound settings

re: Vista RC1:: Sound settings

Larry — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:20:44 GMT

In Beta 2 we had the ability to define different default sound devices for Communications, Music, etc. but this seems to be missing in RC1.

In press releases this functionality was called "device roles" - is this no longer part of the Vista feature set?

re: Vista RC1:: Sound settings

aralves — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:21:51 GMT

Sorry for the late response but I will look this up.

re: Vista RC1:: Sound settings

Arlindo Alves — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:04:01 GMT

I checked it and for the moment it will not be in the feature set, I don't know when and if it will be a feature of Vista RTM. Hope this helps.

re: Vista RC1:: Sound settings

Stephen — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:56:50 GMT

So if I understand "device roles", was this the old ability in XP (and I believe Beta 2) to allow for individual volume and muting capability for Line-In, etc?

Reason I ask is after upgrading Beta 2 to RC1, I seemed to have lost the ability to hear sound from outside devices plugged into the Line-In on my integrated Intel 82801DB/DBM AC '97 sound card. Line-in shows up on the Sound / Recording tab and even shows volume activity, but now sound. I was thinking that it was individually muted but can't seen to find the individual device controls.

re: Vista RC1:: Sound settings

aralves — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:09:42 GMT

Stephen,

Is your device enabled, because by default disabled devices are not shown on the audio mixer dialogue box. Maybe have a look at previous post.

You can still mute different applications but I am not sure if you can do that with different input channels.

I will have a look about that.