FxSound keeps unmuting my Windows 11 PC

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Hey there,

Whenever I manually mute the sound in Windows 11 (by going into the Windows 11 Quick Panel and muting audio output for everything), it unmutes itself again after a few seconds. That only happens whenever I have FxSound running on my system.

No matter how often I “re-mute” my whole system through Windows 11, it basically instantly gets umuted again. I would of course like to be able to keep my system muted, when I mute it through Windows.

Can somebody please help me? I was not able to find any fix for this in this forum nor in the settings of the app itself.

I am running the latest version of FxSound and I have also already tried all the troubleshooting tips available.

Thank you very much and have a nice day!

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Sorry to hear this. Could you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

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I have already done that I am afraid and it did not fix the issue… Is there anything else I can try? :slight_smile:

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@bvijay any ideas on why this might be happening?

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Hi @Waterflame,
If the system volume is muted before FxSound launch, when FxSound is launched system volume gets unmuted.
But if system volume is muted when FxSound is running, it remains muted during audio playback until manually unmuted.
If you are experiencing FxSound automatically unmuting, can you please check if FxSound is set as the default audio device in System > Sound.
What application are you using for audio playback when this unmute happens?

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Hi @bvijay,

Thank you very much for your help already!

Okay I understand. I have checked my system settings, and yes FxSound is set as the default audio device. I am afraid the issue is still happening though…

This unmute happens whenever my device plays any audio, from any app. But also, it unmutes itself automatically after a certain amount of time without any input from my side. Meaning no audio playback being started, and it still unmutes itself.

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Hi @Waterflame
I checked the possibility of FxSound muting the system audio volume. If the selected output device is muted, FxSound will mute the system audio visible in the system tray icon.
Is any other audio application running on your system which can mute the device volume? Can you please check if the output device is configured in exclusive mode and disable exclusive mode if it has been enabled.

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Hi @bvijay

I have disabled exclusive mode for FxSound now. But I am afraid that still did not fix the issue of my system unmuting itself whenever FxSound is enabled…

There is also no other application running that is controlling my audio.