WMP uses WMP's volume line, the Wave volume line, and the system volume
control. There's no further isolation. I'd use the WMP volume line, as
seen at the bottom of WMP.

Also, you caaan switch to use waveOut, which is slightly louder in some
cases than DSound-
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#dsound
but I don't know how much that will buy you here.

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"codenamecuckoo" <codenamecuckoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to isolate volume control for the Media Player so that it
> doesn't affect the rest of the sounds, MSN Messenger alerts, system
> 'ping's
> etc.
>
> because my DVDs, they're up at full volume on the Media Player, but they
> are
> far too quiet unless I turn my speakers RIGHT UP, which makes everything
> else
> far too loud.
>
> Is there no way to programme the default volume into WMP? Or will I just
> have to get bats' ears?