Xbox Music App in Win8 RTM

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This happens to me sometimes, especially when I have Skype running; I think it has to do something with the default sound device and their respective drivers.

Ok, that might be the case. I have Skype running as well. But I have disabled reducing the volume when communication is active. The default there is 80%.
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^^ How do you get that dialog to appear... and where does it appear?!

It's supposed to display if you press the volume keys on your keyboard (or tablet). I've got a logitech keyboard with SetPoint installed, and it won't display with the volume keys, just with pressing the play/pause button on the keyboard (which doesn't actually pause). It will display in the top left corner of the window when you get it.

Not sure if this should go in a separate thread or not, but has anyone else had issues with playing Zune Pass downloaded music in the Xbox Music App (or vice versa)? It seems it actually sets them with a different drm provider, so even though the account and subscription work in both apps, they can't license the music. It's a bit annoying since I have a bunch of stuff downloaded through Zune that I would have to re-download through Xbox Music to be able to play...

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It's supposed to display if you press the volume keys on your keyboard (or tablet). I've got a logitech keyboard with SetPoint installed, and it won't display with the volume keys, just with pressing the play/pause button on the keyboard (which doesn't actually pause). It will display in the top left corner of the window when you get it.

Not sure if this should go in a separate thread or not, but has anyone else had issues with playing Zune Pass downloaded music in the Xbox Music App (or vice versa)? It seems it actually sets them with a different drm provider, so even though the account and subscription work in both apps, they can't license the music. It's a bit annoying since I have a bunch of stuff downloaded through Zune that I would have to re-download through Xbox Music to be able to play...

Yes the Zune/Xbox music problem ****es me off to no end. I just use the music app for streaming.

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Ok, that might be the case. I have Skype running as well. But I have disabled reducing the volume when communication is active. The default there is 80%.

As far as I have noticed, whenever I enter a Skype call (desktop app), the Music app immediately gets quieter to a point in which I can barely hear it. The Music app then proceeds to work normally when I close Skype.

EDIT: The volume of the Music app gets extremely quiet when I switch from the app to my desktop (with Skype), then volumates (yeah, vol-ume-mates) back to normal when I switch back to the app.

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I had what I believe to be the same issue also with the sound. I would be streaming music from the metro Xbox music app and go to the desktop, that?s when the audio from that app would get quieter like background music and no volume setting was changed.

My mainboard is an Asus P6X58-E WS which has a Realtek ALC889. I noticed this issue sometime after I installed the drivers for them. Windows 8 doesn?t seem to power down the computer anymore and puts it into what I believe is an S5 sleep state. I think this was a sound driver save state issue of some kind with the fast startup feature in Windows 8. Anyways I believe I remedied the issue by actually shutting down the computer.

Pick your solution:

  1. Hold shift when clicking reset to get the recovery option and choose ?Turn off my computer?.
  2. Hold shift when clicking shutdown to skip fast startup.
  3. Disable ?Turn on fast startup? under power options and ?Define power buttons?? (This might be good if the issue keeps reoccurring)
  4. Use the regular shutdown and unplug or hit the power switch on your power supply.

Options 1, 2 confirms an actual shutdown on my computer. I have a sidewinder x6 keyboard and when I do the regular shutdown and press a key the red LED lights blink, which is kind of cool.

After my computer did a cold boot I didn?t have any more sound issues, at least not yet. If this doesn?t work, oh well it?s new and hopefully something gets fixed. I also claim to not know much, if anything about computers. I don?t believe all mainboards support S5 so that could explain why other people aren?t getting the same issue.

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I got that problem too but it's not regular - after boot the app works fine, I can send it to the background and it will play music fine. But after some time it becomes so quiet that I can barely hear it and it won't fix until I reboot the computer. Problem is, I didn't start Skype or any other voice communicator a single time while running Music app.

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I got that problem too but it's not regular - after boot the app works fine, I can send it to the background and it will play music fine. But after some time it becomes so quiet that I can barely hear it and it won't fix until I reboot the computer. Problem is, I didn't start Skype or any other voice communicator a single time while running Music app.

Did you plug in any other devices? The Music app exhibits the same problem whenever I plugin my Zune device.

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Check the Sound > Communications settings. If you have an another application that uses your microphone or some other voice/sound/communication-related device, Windows will automatically reduce sounds from other applications in order to give the communication app (like Skype, for instance) priority. This is on be default and needs to be disabled. I've found that it usually works fine, but every so often it'll reduce my volume when it shouldn't, because another app is being defined as 'communicating'.

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Check the Sound > Communications settings. If you have an another application that uses your microphone or some other voice/sound/communication-related device, Windows will automatically reduce sounds from other applications in order to give the communication app (like Skype, for instance) priority. This is on be default and needs to be disabled. I've found that it usually works fine, but every so often it'll reduce my volume when it shouldn't, because another app is being defined as 'communicating'.

I checked that in the options, you can actually turn that off which I'd done. I closed Skype and opened the Music app again, began playing music and left the app. The music now plays at full volume out the app. I opened Skype after music began playing and it seems to be sorted. Whether it was a bug or because I opened Skype AFTER Music I'm not sure. But it's fixed now.

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I checked that in the options, you can actually turn that off which I'd done. I closed Skype and opened the Music app again, began playing music and left the app. The music now plays at full volume out the app. I opened Skype after music began playing and it seems to be sorted. Whether it was a bug or because I opened Skype AFTER Music I'm not sure. But it's fixed now.

On my system, music volume is reduced only when I get a call on Skype.

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I checked that in the options, you can actually turn that off which I'd done. I closed Skype and opened the Music app again, began playing music and left the app. The music now plays at full volume out the app. I opened Skype after music began playing and it seems to be sorted. Whether it was a bug or because I opened Skype AFTER Music I'm not sure. But it's fixed now.

I hate to say this again, but maybe it's a driver and or app issue? It sounds like it's by design, i.e. you go into another communications app like skype or something so the music volume goes lower, sounds good. But maybe there's a mixup and apps or the audio driver don't handle it right all the time? It seems this does in fact work fine for some people, it only lowers when skype kicks in with a call etc.

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McKay,

I noticed you have steam running. If you initiate voice chat in it it will lower your volume and seems like it will glitch out and leave it that way. If you close out steam your volume should return to normal. At least this worked for me.

Windows 8 RTM

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Corsair Hydro 80 watercooling

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Raidmax 850W Modular PSU

Hooked to an LG55LW6500 HDTV

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McKay,

I noticed you have steam running. If you initiate voice chat in it it will lower your volume and seems like it will glitch out and leave it that way. If you close out steam your volume should return to normal. At least this worked for me.

Windows 8 RTM

Asus P8z68-V PRO/GEN3

Core i5 2500k OCed to 4.5Ghz

Corsair Hydro 80 watercooling

8GB DDR3 2133 (Oced to 2200)

ATI Radeon HD 7850

x2 250GB HDDs Raided, 1TB, and 750GB HDDs

Raidmax 850W Modular PSU

Hooked to an LG55LW6500 HDTV

did you try turning off this?

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I had this problem in the VM and the standard HDD install :-( The music app is so buggy I can't belive MS let this out.... I can understand a 1 person indie app but for the major corp. MS is it's in-excusable. I wish they would overhaul it and make it less laggy, buggy and think of us all that have more then 200 songs in our entire collection.... hell a 100 song PL is too hard for the music app to deal with. let alone ONE of my 2000+ song playlists like my ENTIRE Future Trance or Dream Dance or my custom "In Love With The Club Mix" series that has 12 vols with 35 tracks per vol. FT has like 40+ tracks per vol and there are now 61 vols and 5 in the mix and a limited edition and 2 best of compilations.... Dream Dance is up to 64 vols!!!!!!! I dare anyone to load a large playlist and let me know how it handles and how painful it is to have a large playlist loaded.

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Yes the Zune/Xbox music problem ****es me off to no end. I just use the music app for streaming.

How do you play a stream in music app? I tried to open a web stream playlist file, but it can't play it.

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BajiRav

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I had this problem in the VM and the standard HDD install :-( The music app is so buggy I can't belive MS let this out.... I can understand a 1 person indie app but for the major corp. MS is it's in-excusable. I wish they would overhaul it and make it less laggy, buggy and think of us all that have more then 200 songs in our entire collection.... hell a 100 song PL is too hard for the music app to deal with. let alone ONE of my 2000+ song playlists like my ENTIRE Future Trance or Dream Dance or my custom "In Love With The Club Mix" series that has 12 vols with 35 tracks per vol. FT has like 40+ tracks per vol and there are now 61 vols and 5 in the mix and a limited edition and 2 best of compilations.... Dream Dance is up to 64 vols!!!!!!! I dare anyone to load a large playlist and let me know how it handles and how painful it is to have a large playlist loaded.

uh...Windows 8 is not released yet. It is perfectly ok for these apps to be buggy (until 10/26/2012).

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remixedcat

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uh...Windows 8 is not released yet. It is perfectly ok for these apps to be buggy (until 10/26/2012).

not as buggy as they are they act like alpha version apps and windows 8 is far along.... too far along for that....

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