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Josephooh
Aug 07, 2024Bronze Contributor
Continuous Default Beeping on Windows 11
Dear Esteemed Team, I have been consistently hearing a default beep sound, and I prefer not to disable it as it may indicate a serious issue on my system that needs to be addressed. I have al...
FrancoisJ
Aug 08, 2024Brass Contributor
Hi,
Is it coming your speakers or from the small speakers which is used by the bios to beeeeep ?
I guess you already checked the Windows Volume mixer ?
For audio, there are no perf counters, some events are logged here in event viewer Microsoft-Windows-Audio/Informational, and this is not obvious, but one value is a PID of an app playing audio.
Otherwise, this PowerShell may be the easiest way:
Install-Module AudioDeviceCmdlets
Import-Module AudioDeviceCmdlets
$pl = Get-AudioDevice -Playback
$s = $pl.Device.AudioSessionManager
(0..$s.Sessions.Count) | % { st.Sessions.Item($_) }
It will show all apps that have been "in the session" (don't precisely know the details) like this entry:
AudioMeterInformation : CoreAudioApi.AudioMeterInformation
SimpleAudioVolume : CoreAudioApi.SimpleAudioVolume
State : AudioSessionStateActive
DisplayName : Spotify
IconPath :
SessionIdentifier : {0.0.0.00000000}.{825b59a5-e621-4089-9df2-4af7a551d384}|\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program
Files\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.243.420.0_x64__zpdnekdrzrea0\Spotify.exe%b{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
SessionInstanceIdentifier : {0.0.0.00000000}.{825b59a5-e621-4089-9df2-4af7a551d384}|\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program
Files\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.243.420.0_x64__zpdnekdrzrea0\Spotify.exe%b{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}|1%b6196
ProcessID : 6196
IsSystemIsSystemSoundsSession : False
There are a lot of other ways. But none are easy to explain in a few words... 😉