Thanks to those who answered my post about using iMic on Win7. First let me say I tried all the things suggested with no luck. I never found anything muted or disabled.
At first, nothing, then I could play sounds, but no music. It seemed that it began working after I used Quickmix to load iMic. (Actually, it showed USB audio device.) **I noticed I now had a volume slider for Windows Media Player which I did not have before. I now could play music. The slider can be seen by right clicking the speaker icon, and then selecting 'open volume mixer'. I had trouble using Quickmix on Win7 when I first tried it several months ago. I wish I could remember what the fix was. (Maybe later.) Quickmix has been working fine and is a handy utility. Thanks for your help. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Petiford To: Richard Fjeld ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 Dick, You are almost there. It appears you got through steps 1 and 2, but you also need to do steps 3, 4,and 5 below: 1. Right click on the speaker icon on the lower right of the screen and select Playback Devices. 2. The Sound window will open. Be sure the Playback tab is selected. This is where you can select the default device. More on that below. 3. Right click on Speakers iMac USB Audio System and select Properties in the dropdown menu. 4. The Speaker Properties window will open, select the Levels tab in that window. 5. Be sure the Speakers slider is set to something greater than zero, and be sure the little speaker icon is not muted. You can leave this window open while you try to play a file; however, be sure to click on OK once the volume is set correctly. Be sure you have the headphones plugged into the Out jack of the iMac. Of course, I never make mistakes like that. ;-) If you are simply playing a file back, you must have the iMac selected as the default device in the Sound window, item 2 above. That tells your PC to send the digital sound (music) to that device, unless you tell a specific program otherwise. You do not need for it to be the default device if you are setting it up to work with a program such as FLDIGI. You will tell that program to send data to that device. In fact, you probably don't want it to be the default device so you can prevent Windows from sending your music, and every other beep and blurp that Windows makes, out over the air! That is one big advantage of using a separate soundcard for digital modes. Hope this helps. Mark KE6BB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
