Audio muted after waking up from hibernation in Win11 only when Mediamonkey is launched

[kermaco]

Hello,

If I have a mediamonkey launched, and I put my WIndows machine into hibernation mode, when it wakes up, the audio is muted, I have to toggle the volume slider to mute to hear the audio which is a pain if I need to change the volume because I have to move the slider then click on mute again. If I close Mediamonkey and wait a few minutes the volume slider and audio works as it should. This has been an issue for a while, and only Mediamonkey causes this issue. Is there a setting to make this not be an issue, or is it a bug?

Thanks,

[Lowlander]

It sounds like you're using MediaMonkey for Windows instead? If so, which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey are you using and which Output Plugin?

[kermaco]

Yes, I am using the Windows version of MediaMonkey 2024.2.0.3166. Earlier versions of MediaMonkey and Windows 11 had the same issue. It took me a while to figure out that it's only happening when I have MediaMokey running when I go into hibernation.

As for output plugin it is MediaMonkey DirectSound output out_MMDS.dll but it also happens with AISO dll version v0.67 SSE2 out_aiso.dll

Thanks

[Lowlander]

And presumably the issue is in Windows Volume, not in the MediaMonkey volume, and without MediaMonkey running the Windows Volume remains unaffected by hibernate?

[kermaco]

Yes, the issue is with Windows volume. After waking from hibernation, if I want to hear any system sounds like Chrome, YuuTube, Netflix, etc. including Media Monkey music, I need to set Windows volume to mute. If I close Media Monkey, a few minutes later, Windows volume works normally. It definitely has something to do with MediaMonkey. And yes, without MediaMonkey Windows volume remains unaffected by hibernate.