This is the weirdest thing ever that has happened to my computer (running Windows 7).
Is somebody is streaming from another house? Is that possible? and making my life impossible.
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How can I check and stop this?
Luis ValenciaLuis Valencia
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Epson 840 workforce. You could try running the Resource Monitor and see what network connections are open and what program is using it (or netstat with the /b option). If you say it stops when you disconnect the Internet, then you should be able to find what program is streaming it.
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Do you have any other Windows computers in your house (or, more specifically, on the same network)? Windows Media Player has a feature called 'Play To' that can be used to stream music to another computer, so perhaps that's where the music is coming from?
See here for more information: Indrek
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/using-the-play-to-feature-to-stream-media How To Stop Music SteamIndrek
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Is there a music CD in your computer's CD player? This sounds a lot like your computer is just autoplaying the CD, and whoever built your machine hooked up the little cable that lets the audio from the CD player go directly to the sound hardware, allowing it to play through the speakers without needing any software running.
In addition have you checked the Sound settings? Someone might have changed your 'startup sound' to just some really long audio file that is playing for a long time after startup.
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It had to be a malware or trojan.
I downloaded 3 different programs to clean malware, one of them spyware search and destroy. I dont remember the name of the other 2, I scan my system with the 3 of them, and each one found different trojans.
I dont know which one fixed the problem but I dont have it anymore.
The other answers related to audio settings makes not even sense, thats why its tagged as a virus and indeed it was.
This is the thread that helped me.http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6122_102-336301/help-pc-starts-playing-audio-by-itself/
Luis ValenciaLuis Valencia
You could check to see if you are using Windows accounts like in Windows 7 etc and see if another user is logged in with a program running thereon the user account #2.
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Hi Royford,
·Since when are you facing this issue?
·Does it happen only when playing a certain file or happen always?
Method 1: I would recommend you to perform clean boot.
Putting your system in clean boot state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue. If yes, you may have to contact the program manufacturer for any updates or uninstall and re-install the program.
Refer the following Microsoft KB article for more information on how to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7:
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
Note: After troubleshooting, make sure to put the computer to start as usual as mentioned in Step 7 in the above KB article.
Method 2: Uninstall the drivers for the soundcard and check if it works fine or not
a.Click Start. In the Start Search box type 'devmgmt.msc' (without quotes) and press Enter.
b.Expand 'Sound card', double-click on the entry of the Sound card.
c.Right click the Sound card properties
d.Click the “Driver” tab and click “Uninstall” to uninstall the driver.
You can try to uninstall the driver from the Device Manager, and then go to the computer or the device Manufactures website download the latest driver.
NOTE: Don’t uninstall the drivers until you have the source to install the drivers back to your computer. Also create a system restore point before you uninstall the drivers
Please get back with more information so that we can assist you in a better way.
Hope this helps.
Steam just rolled out a new update for all clients adding a few features and one of them being Steam Music. It adds functionality to listen to music from games (purchased as a extra DLC). My question is, by default it is sorted by albums is there a way to show a list of all songs what Steam has found or are in it's database?
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Only Albums, Artists, and Playlists are supported at this time. However, you could accomplish something of this sort by creating a playlist of all your songs.
To do this, first make sure you're in Albums view:
Then right click on the first album and select Add to Playlist >New Playlist:
Then do the same for every album in the list, but add it to the existing playlist instead of creating a new one each time.
Then go to Playlists view:
Right click the playlist and select Rename:
Then call it something like 'Library'.
Now you have a list of your whole library that you can look through and play specific songs, or double click it to start from the top. You will have to keep this updated by adding all the new albums you get to this playlist. This is the best available method until a Songs view is actually implemented.
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Did you think Steam was all about games? Think again. Valve has just rolled out a new update for the Steam client and it now acts as a music player, too.
Steam as a music player at first comes as a bit of a surprise. This is a service dedicated to games after all. But then you think about how many games now offer a soundtrack for a few extra dollars and you can see how it makes sense to integrate music playing. Before now you’d have to direct your music playing software of choice to where the soundtrack files were stored, or download and copy those files to your music library manually.
By integrating a music player directly into Steam, Valve has removed that hassle. Any soundtrack you purchase through Steam, or which automatically gets bundled with a game, is now instantly playable. But Valve didn’t stop there. If you navigate to Steam’s settings page you can add new directories of music, so Steam Music Player can be used to play all your music.
It’s far too early to suggest that Valve may be considering a move into selling all types of music and therefore morphing into an iTunes rival. However, the ingredients are there: millions of accounts, a mature digital download platform, and now the Steam Music Player. How much more work would it be to add a music tab and start selling albums at the same scale as Apple or Amazon?
In order to use the Steam Music Player you will need to apply the latest update to the Steam client, which should pop-up next time you launch it. Depending on the size of your gaming library you may already have a number of soundtracks available to play. If you don’t, then Valve is running a promotion that sees the soundtracks offered free for all its Half-Life and Portal games. Those games all carry a 75% discount now at the moment. There’s a large range of other gaming soundtracks to peruse, too.
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