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My Compaq Evo has two internal speakers, the PC speaker (the one responsible for beeps, etc) and another conventional loudspeaker connected internally to the sound board. One would expect that conecting the headphones to the headphones jack will automatically shut off/disable the internal speaker but it doesn’t. You must first go to the Volume Control at System -> Preferences -> Volume Control and then click Edit->Preferences and enable the Headphone Jack Sense checkbox. I wonder why it is not enabled by default.

Continuing with my previous post 1 , 2 …. I wrote a little script that I run every day via Windows Scheduled tasks. The script adjust the volume and EQ setting of all the podcasts and audiobooks everyday to update the just downloaded podcast. I find hard to listen to podcast and audiobook at the gym (that’s were I hear the podcast/audiobok) at the standard volume so I like to adjust the volume +100% and change the EQ setting to “Spoken word”.

Save the file adjustvolume.js and make sure that file extension is handled by wscript.exe. The file association windows should look like this

Now in Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks you can set that script to execute every day to maintain your podcasts and audiobook with the correct settings