Sound Level--Bluetooth

[Knightmare]

I don't know why, but for some reason, I keep having to adjust the volume of my Bluetooth headphones whenever I open MusicBee. The volume in Windows 10 shows that the volume is 80, but it doesn't sound like 80. As a test, I lowered the volume to around 70 and it got louder! I don't know if this is a MB thing or a Windows thing, but my Bluetooth does this often. I'm not sure how to word this, so bare with me: I have MusicBee set to lower/raise the volume of songs so that all of them are set to 0 db volume. I wasn't sure if this has an affect on the volume issue or not.

[Knightmare]

This only happens when I open MB

[Knightmare]

I think I know what might be happening, but I need to test it.

[Knightmare]

It only appears to happen when I'm playing audio from another source when I activate MB. For example, if I'm watching a YT video, but I pause to listen to some music, then the volume will become higher on Windows in view, but when I lower the volume, the music gets louder.

[The Incredible Boom Boom]

If you're using WASAPI (Exclusive) in MB, your volume level will possibly be much lower than other programs that are likely using DirectSound.

[Knightmare]

I'm not using WASAPI, I'm using direct sound. I think there might be some conflict with Windows and absolute volume with Bluetooth. I did a repair install of Windows, and that seems to have fixed the issue. Maybe I did too many things to customize my system. I also uninstalled my Realtek sound driver and started using the Windows 10 High Def Audio Driver. I think I'll just start trusting Windows drivers vs trusting my motherboard-offered drivers. I also did this with my chipset drivers, so I'm thinking it was just a driver issue.

EDIT: I lied. I was set to WASAPI (Shared) and it was working fine. Hmmm... The plot thickens. I could have sworn I was using Direct Sound. Now I'm really confused. What should I be using? I swear I was using Direct Sound when the issue was happening.

[vincent kars]

To the best of my knowledge, WASAPI(shared mode) = Direct Sound.
Maybe by changing drivers, the name has changed as well.