Volume setting sometimes ignored

I've notices (macbook) that the volume setting in OS X is sometimes ignored by applications (like quicktime, idvd etc). It just goes on max. volume, although i told os x my volume has to be 50% for example.
After clicking in the menu bar (where it still tells me 50%) the setting is pushed to the value i specified earlier after clicking on the volume bar.
What is causing this?

I have turned my thrive off several times and the sound never came on then this morning its on. Go figure.

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FB13 wrote:
I have set the call ring volume to its highest setting.
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Hello NCMead,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
I'd like you to take a look a the follow support article, specifically starting at step 5:
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Restart the iPhone.
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I was thinking RAID level 3 as well.
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Message was edited by: Pifman

Pifman wrote:
Thanks to both of you. I guess the search I ran wasn't good enough as I didn't find the discussion that you posted.
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sorry, my mistake on the location.
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My friend and I have identical iPods and we exchange tunes between one another's computers. We'd like the volume setting adjustments made by us in iTunes to be consisent on either iPod. But when we transfer the music files from one computer to the other, the volume settings always goes back to the normal setting.
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