How to disable internal Loudspeaker

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.

January 10, 2007

Adjust the volume and EQ setting of podcast and audiobooks automatically

Continuing with my previous posts 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. I find hard to listen to podcast and audiobooks at the gym (that’s were I listen to podcasts and audiobooks) at the standard volume so I like to adjust the volume +100% and change the EQ setting to “Spoken word”. ...

August 23, 2006