My music volume randomly changes too

[ZeroCookie]

I've seen lots of people post with this question all over the internet, and here within the last week or two is no exception.

Questions? Abundant. Solutions? None that work for me at least. I've had this problem in the past with Windows 7 and I never found a solution for that either. It just seemed to eventually go away... usually.

The Problem: I play music in iTunes, and completely at random, sometimes for minutes at a time, sometimes not for hours, it will drop to an extremely low volume - sometimes a bouncing volume change as if someone was wiggling the volume slider. When it's happening, it's intolerable.

I'm using the Realtek High Definition Audio on-board my Gigabyte X79-UD3 motherboard (the Realtek High Definition Audio seems to be the common denominator between 90%+ of the people who have this problem).

1. I checked my cables to make sure they're securely connected.
2. I uninstalled the audio driver and reinstalled the latest one, which it already had.
3. I checked in the control panel to see if it was set to adjust volume dynamically in response to other applications (like receiving a call) and that was already off. I switched off the permission to let applications take over the audio device and have priority over it.
4. I disabled audio enhancement.
5. I looked in the device manager and disabled other sound device drivers that were laying around, such as some extras installed alongside my nVidia graphics card.
6. I looked at every other setting and device I could find that had anything to do with sound, and everything looked normal.

The problem still comes back at random. Nothing fixes this. The only time I've heard what sounded like a conclusive solution it was: "This is a problem with the on-board Realtek High Definition Audio. The solution is to get a sound card."

Is that really it? Or does anyone else have another solution to this one?

 

[Lutfij]

The solution if the issue is bugging your very badly is to downgrade your OS to perhaps 7 or 8/8.1 since the issue is widespread and seen all over the www with owners of Realtek audio codec/chip running/migrating to Windows 10. In fact you seem to have one(a system) where sound is being output properly albeit the volume levels are a little wonky.

But in any case to work with your current OS, try and install drivers for your Realtek Device off of Realtek's site although it looks like the one featured on your motherboard's product page is more up to date than that found on Realtek's site.

Given time the issue will be ironed out on both Microsoft's end as well as other famed branded computer component manufacturers. IMHO the cost of downgrading would be far cheaper than getting a soundcard unless you were looking for an excuse to pick up a hi-fi grade soundcard...?