I agree wholeheartedly. It is made much worse because my employer is one the more flagrant violators (it makes working on the sites very annoying...hope this software can put an end to my misery).

In an operating system I used to use (BeOS), the volume control had a separate slider for every running program. This was incredibly handy if you wanted to blast music, but have some other sound quieter, such as the beep of an instant messsaging program.

I believe the next version of Windows, Vista, will have a similar feature from some of the screenshots I've seen.

Per application volume settings are nice. Probably won't be used by more than 1% of the population, but I will appreciate it.

Great. Now I can stop syscon's stupid ads interrupting my Rabid Aardvark album.

Funny thing is - Sys-Con is where I went to test, and I agree, I hate it. They DO allow you to set it so they don't auto-start. I still think it should default to not starting though.

Thanks Ray!

Let me know when you find that pause function. Better yet an active enable (flash on only on explicit user mouse click)...

Oh dude - they already have that. It's called Flashblock. Works like a charm. _And_ you call it to always enable flash at certain sites. Very, very handy.

Love it; I have been extremely annoyed by Flash audio, especially at sys-con.

Thanks!

I'm not the only one who finds the flash video at Sys-Con really annoying? Whew. I was wondering if it was just me.

My comment doesn't add much... but I have to whine. I just hate it when I surf the web at 2AM, everybody sleeps, including my little girl, and I get a noisy webpage. It's killing me...

Has anyone seen a per application volume control for current Windows versions? I've been trying to find one for a while.

It all started when Rag Doll Kung Fu was released (http://www.ragdollkungfu.com). Fun game, but it has no in game volume controls. You can only turn off the music and not sound effects. So you probably don't want to play it at Sys-Con either.

Thanks for the Flashblock tip Ray. Works great!

The problem with per app volume controlling in Windows, is the amount of ways an application can output sound. You might have to to it at kernel level to be certain to block everything, as DirectSound, for one, seems to write directly to the drivers.

Hallo,
there is such a program, IndieVolume that my company have developed. Below you can find description of the program.
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IndieVolume is a unique program enhancing Windows desktop with per-application volume, balance and mute audio settings.

Suppose you have four applications running, each noising your environment with sounds. Using IndieVolume you can set first application sound volume, for example, to 50%, second application sound volume to 75%, third application sound volume to 100% and mute fourth application.

IndieVolume allows per-application selection of playback device: if you have built-in sound card and SoundBlaster or USB headset, you can configure certain applications play on built-in sound card, and others play on SoundBlaster or USB headset

IndieVolume supports FX audio effects: you can alter application sounds by applying miscellaneous FX effects, likewise I3DL2 Reverb, Waves Reverb, Chorus, Compressor, Distortion, Flanger, Gargle, etc.
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For further information, please visit IndieVolume website http://www.indievolume.com

Thank You
Kind Regards,
Andriy Gerasika

Thanks, I'll try it out.

Interesting Andriy. Normally I wouldn't like the commercial posting, but it is certainly appropriate.