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I don’t know how soon you plan on putting out a new version, or if you already have these features planned, but there are two simple features that I would love to see the next version.
The first one is the ability to get to the settings from the toolbar or the system icon. I work on a laptop, so having the main window open all the time eats up almost half of my screen, but I also hate having to open the main window up just to get to the settings. Of course the only reason I’m having to open the main window up all the time gets to my second request.
The ability to have a default and backup sound card setting. So as I said, I work on a laptop, and I am carting it to work and to home and using different setups in the two places. At home I use a Line6 UX2 with reference speakers and at work I usually use headphones through the onboard headphone out jack. What I would like BAE to do is what Windows does automatically. If I am plugged into the UX2 it automatically sets that as the output sound card, but if that’s not plugged in it goes to the onboard sound card. I would like Breakaway to do the same thing either through some sort of audio output hierarchy or just by having a default and if the default isn’t there having it automatically select the next available output. There has to be quite a few users out there who go through the same thing with laptops being the norm these days.
So with those necessary features out of the way here are a couple of other things that I would love to see, but can do without. The first is having the BAE volume control correlate with the system volume control. What I mean is right now, when I adjust the system volume with the volume controls on my laptop it barely affects the actual volume of BAE and is totally inconsistent to how it affects the volume vs the system volume. So if I tap the volume button the system volume adjusts accordingly but BAE volume just crawls up vs if I hold down the volume button again the system volume grows accordingly while BAE’s volume grows at some odd metric. As I said, this is just a minor thing, but it would make things more convenient. The second conveniency thing would be to be able to assign profiles to specific sound cards. Again, this is mostly a mobile user thing, but I know when I’m using my earbuds I usually end up bypassing BAE because I know the bass is going to be a bit much since I have them adjusted for my reference monitors which have a much flatter sound.
Wow, that was much longer than I intended… Anyway, thanks for the great product, it’s made my reference speakers much more useful at home with my simple setup, I look forward to the next version.
Here’s another one.
Please could you stop Breakaway Pipeline preventing Windows 7 PC’s from entering Sleep mode.
From a Windows power efficiency report:
System Availability Requests:System Required Request
The device or driver has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep.
Requesting Driver Instance RootMEDIA 000
Requesting Driver Device Breakaway Pipeline
Apart from that it’s brilliant!
[quote author=”Asystole”]The first one is the ability to get to the settings from the toolbar or the system icon.[/quote]
A good suggestion.[quote author=”Asystole”]the main window [..] eats up almost half of my screen[/quote]
It’s completely resizable, with pretty complicated algorithms that decide the optimal GUI layout. I remember Leif pulling his hair out any time he had to deal with that part of his code. I also haven’t seen any other program that behaves quite so awesomely with resizing. Try it out. 🙂[quote author=”Asystole”]I would like Breakaway to do the same thing either through some sort of audio output hierarchy or just by having a default and if the default isn’t there having it automatically select the next available output.[/quote]
If you can settle for DS (DirectSound) or Wave (MME) input, you can select the default device, and it will use this. However I don’t think it’ll automatically search and reconnect when the list of soundcards changes, so that could definitely be streamlined. Right now, you would have to cycle the "Hard Bypass" function in 2K/XP, or in Vista/7 either go to settings and click "Finish" or restart Breakaway. :/ In Vista/7 software can’t set what the default soundcard is, so a pre-defined "backup" card, or some kind of priority for recognized soundcards that aren’t currently connected to the system, would have to be built into Breakaway. I’m not sure that’ll ever happen, since I think you’re the only person to have requested anything like that so far. It’s up to Leif of course. 🙂@ volume settings, what BAE could be doing, but could possibly cause instability issues with some software (aka it would need a TON of testing) is to hook that function of windows keyboard API, and prevent the volume key presses from going anywhere except for Breakaway. That way Breakaway would be the only volume adjustment for your system. That *should* be the way it’s working now though, unless you are adjusting "wave out" or in Vista/7 the individual program volumes. Breakaway is designed to increase the loudness of more quiet audio, and when you’re turning down the input into Breakaway, that’s what it’s going to do, turn it back up. That’s why the output volume can only be correctly controlled in Breakaway.
[quote author=”Asystole”]The second conveniency thing would be to be able to assign profiles to specific sound cards. Again, this is mostly a mobile user thing, but I know when I’m using my earbuds I usually end up bypassing BAE because I know the bass is going to be a bit much since I have them adjusted for my reference monitors which have a much flatter sound.[/quote]
Assuming that the soundcard priority thing is done, that makes sense too, but yeah… personally I don’t see it happening, but Leif reads this whole forum. It doesn’t hurt to ask. 🙂[quote author=”rossall”]Please could you stop Breakaway Pipeline preventing Windows 7 PC’s from entering Sleep mode.[/quote]
I’m not sure if this would be a fix to forward to the developer of Breakaway Pipeline (it should sleep just fine unless there’s a bug manifested on your system), or if Breakaway doesn’t stop processing audio because of a race condition happening in your system somehow (aka bug manifested, blah blah).But yeah, that’s definitely an isolated bug. As far as I know there isn’t any more issues with Breakaway and sleeping/hibernating, besides what you’re reporting.
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