X-Fi Surround 5.1 and diminishing sounds
Swifty
applications sound is behaving strangely.
The application is "Yankee Clipper III" (which was freeware) and the
sound is clip.wav held in its program directory. It is a little "chirp"
that confirms that a new item has been copied to the clipboard.
When my system is freshly loaded, the chirp is loud, and lasts maybe one
third of a second. As time goes by, the chirp gets either quieter or
shorter (it's hard to tell which) until it becomes complete inaudible.
If I play that "clip.wav" file through any other application, it works
just fine. Windows Media Player is playing my music just fine.
Yankee Clipper was just fine with the Audigy 2 ZS, and my onboard
SoundMax before that.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? (short of rebooting every few hours)
Yankee Clipper isn't the only application that suffers from these
diminishing sounds, but its usually the one that I notice first. I'm a
poor typist, and I rely strongly on the audible notification to confirm
that I have succeeded it putting stuff on the clipboard.
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Steve Swift
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