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shmokes:
When I have my music going at a decent volume, Windows sound effects, like the noises it makes when coming out of standby, logging off, or when error messages pop up, etc., are too loud.  Can the volume for these by adjusted separately?  I assume that the Windows sound effects are Wave files, and if I adjust the Wave volume it affects my music.  Anybody know?

fredster:
Look under the "options" in the volume control.

You can adjust wave files separately. That's about as far as you can adjust.

Are your files mp3's and they play at a different volume?  You can also try the control panel advanced settings.  Mine had another section for midi playback properties.

Santoro:
Your MP3  app needs to support independent volume control.  I read that WMP and iTunes do. You will have to experiment - I am not sure if you can adjust the system sounds lower than the media sound though.  Now you have me curious - I am going to check that out.

Edit - I tried it and you can't.  The good news is that if you are willing to drop a few grand on a new PC in Q1 2007, I know that Vista solves this issue.      :D

fredster, MIDI and MP3 are very different animals.  Midi is processed by a different 'device' on your sound card, and is basically kind of like synthesizer sequences.  Here is a KeWl Green Day Midi file:

http://www.santoro.com/images/When_I_Come_Around.mid

 :lame:, no?

Anyway since MP3 playback and system sounds both use the WAV channel, adjusting the Midi volume won't help here.

Funny aside:  the website spellcheck suggests 'fraudster' in place of 'fredster.'

shmokes:
LMAO

Thanks Santoro.  That's the same conclusion I came to but hoped, and half assumed that I had to be wrong because it seems like such a stupid design.  I'd install Vista today, but there's no compatibility info available for my RAID chipset and all of my drives are using either RAID 0 or 1 (or both). 

Hoopz:
Is turning off the Windows default sounds an option for you?  I always turn them off as a rule.

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