Hi Edwin. As far as I know, Sound Forge 8.0 cannot be installed on Vista. You would have to upgrade to Sound Forge 9.0 to use the program on Vista.
One of my Vista concerns is that it will not run some programs that were designed for XP. So, yes you do indeed have advantages with new Vista audio alternatives, but you may also find that a necessary element of the upgrade is to upgrade software as well. And in some cases, there could be software packages that the developer has abandoned. While these audio aspects are no reason to reject Vista, it seems to me that they must be considered when deciding whether or not to upgrade to Vista. Just my two cents for whatever it's worth. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 7:48 PM Subject: Audio on Windows Vista > Hi All, > > I recently tried playing with Windows Vista and thought of asking some > audio > related questions as I am still in the midst of exploring. I got to say > that, if vista matures a little further as time progresses, its worthwhile > the upgrade just for the audio part. 1 very big bonus is that we could now > control indivisual volume controls through the mixer. For example, if we > are > listening to real player streams, on xp systems, when u tune down the > volume, it utilise the wav volume and this would affect our screen > readers > too. However, on vista, u could indivisually set the current active > application's volume level. In this case, u could have different levels > for > your screen reader and real player. This is especially benificial for jaws > as eloquence of jaws on xp system uses the main level of the volume > control > of your soundcard. But, I am just a bit puzzled. If such a powerful volume > mixer exists in vista, why there isn't a volume control icon on the > startup > group like in xp? I know 1 could just go to control panel and go in to the > sounds item to select our sources and go in to the properties page to set > them, however, i find slightly of a hassel to do that. Of-course I could > just create a shortcut of the sndvol32.exe at the start menu. Any intake > from listers on this? > > Next, though not completely audio related, but someword related. I tried > installing Sound Forge 8.0D in vista. I got a msg that SF needs .frame > network 1.1. I tried installing but got some error message and my .dot > frame > network couldn't be installed. Does listers know why is this so and is > there > a work around? > > Finally, its regarding vista's windows media centre. I understand that we > could setup our tv-tuner card to work with WMC and use it to set schedules > and recordings etc and just use it without installing any related pvr > softwares, as in xp. Currently, I have a cable set top box attached to my > card. When I tried configuring it and told it that my card is attached to > a > external set top box, it told me that I need a microsoft remote control or > something of that sort. I am a bit puzzled on this. How exactly does this > work? Is WMC any accessible at all? Have I done anything wrong? > > Thanks all and hope to get any relevant input from listers who have > experience with vista and its audio. Thanks. > > Regards, > Edwin. > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
