Windows 10: Windows Media Player randomly changes the volume

Hello,

I use WMP a lot while I'm working. It worked fine on my previous box, but I just got a new PC and installed Win10 Pro with all updates.

When I play mp3s, WMP will randomly alter the volume. Sometimes it plays them at normal volume, sometimes they are really quiet. Often they are very loud, and altering the volume slider on WMP doesn't make any difference until you get down to about 8 or lower, at which point it suddenly becomes much quieter. Even when you get it right, the next track might play at a totally different volume.

Anyone any ideas? WMP is pretty unusable at the moment. Thanks

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So After the Windows 10 update, I was playing some music and it was a little to loud for my liking. So I tried adjusting the volume to be much lower within Windows media player and no effect occurred. this is the same result when changing the volume control
for windows media player in the volume mixer. Basically, Windows media player will play the audio at 100% when at 1% volume. The only solution would be to adjust the entire system sound, and I'm not wanting to do this because I like having the music in the
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I did not have this issue with Windows 7. I could put the Windows media player on a low volume and it would actually play at a low volume. Please do not ask me to use Groove music as I've tried this as an alternative and I'm not very fond of it. Is there
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Hey,

I would simply try resetting WMP to default settings.

 

Sorry for the delay in replying.

I can't see how to do that. Any clues?

Thanks

 

Anyone able to help here? It's as bad as ever, if not worse.