Audio Mute not always honored.

[Quixadhal]

Windows 10 here, dual monitor setup. I've adjusted the audio settings on wallpapers that are in a playlist on the second monitor to be an appropriate volume, and set all wallpapers on the primary monitor at volume level 0.

Nevertheless, when watching TV or doing other activities where I might want to hear alert sounds but not background video music, I hit the taskbar's "mute" option. This normally works, however I've had a few instances where it appears to be overridden and video sound plays anyways.

I can, of course, mute the application at the volume mixer level (or the entire machine), but it would be a bug since the application provides a mute toggle.

[Quixadhal]

I don't know if this is related, or a separate issue. But I also noticed that some videos are played by wallpaper32.exe (or wallpaper64.exe) directly, but others are passed off to webwallpaper32.exe, despite it still being a video file, not a web page.

Since the volume mixer treats these as entirely distinct applications, muting one has no effect on the other, and it makes it harder to predict which videos will actually be muted.

[[G&G] Redeamon]

Hello,

I've got the same issue in my work with W10 (last october update) and 4 monitors. I notice there is a "wallpaper32.exe" process in the volume mixer for each wallpaper with sound per screen.
Even when i selected "Mute" from the systray app i notice : if i tag all options to "Mute" in the option the sound still play, even if i've got an app in fullscreen in one or all of my screen.
But the sound stop if i switch juste "Pause per monitor" for "other app maximized" when i got an app fullscreen for the 4 monitors.

And if an app play a sound/music, the wallpaper sound won't mute itself even if in the option i requested it.

It's frustrating because i found it very cool to have this soft, and it's work very well/like expected in my home (W10, last october update, dual screen).

It isn't normal to have to mute each wallpaper from the playlist and for each playlist per screen, and to hunt "wallpaper32.exe" to mute it.

[Tim]

Regarding web-based wallpapers, the problem is unfortunately out of our control and is a bug in Chromium. There is a pull request on a fix open but it's just hanging there and not being merged into Chromium:

https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/pull-requests/173/mute-audio-in-the-browser-issue-1806/diff

If you are on Bitbucket, feel free to leave a comment to add some pressure to get this problem solved.