Beats Audio and Windows10

I have just downloaded Windows 10 and have lost all my Beats Audio contol functions and instead have only the normal Windows functions .Is there anyway that these functions can be re activated or is it simply a case of Beats audio not working with windows 10?

Hi, Very interesting, I upgraded my wife's HP machine last night and Beats audio is still ok. Can you see Beats logo ? Right click and open it to access equalizer. You may need to change your setup again. Regards.

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My dv7 -4165dx came with beats audio and my speakers sound horrible

my dv7 -4165dx came with beats audio and my speakers sound horrible,can i fix it

Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP ENVY 15-j011dx Notebook and issues with the Beats Audio. Here is a link to the HP Support Assistant. Just download and run the application and it will help with the software and drivers on your system that might need updating.
Here is a link on troubleshooting the sound. It has a number of great troubleshooting steps including using the built-in Windows troubleshooter.
1. Right click the Speaker icon in the bottom right corner by your time.
2. Click Playback Devices.
3. Click Speakers.
4. Click properties.
5. Click the advanced tab on the Properties window.
6. Change the Default Format drop-down to the highest quality.
7. Apply the properties.
8. Click OK to close the properties window.
Hope this helps with the sound.
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Pavilion d6 with Beats Audio and Windows 7: the Sound Stops When Headphones are Removed

The sound works fine, then I put in headphones and usually the sound plays fine, though sometimes it stops working after making a repeating sound for a second. When I remove the headphones the sound will not come out of the speakers and if I plus the headphones back in no sound comes out. The only way I can get the sound to work again is to restart my computer.
If I run the sound troubleshooter it doesnt detect a problem. I tried the fix in this thread http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-PC-Sound-and-Audio/Beats-audio-pavilion-dv6-No-sound/td-p/2169..., but that didn't work. I would really appreciate a solution, thanks a ton!

Hi,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp63501-64000/sp63555.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Right click the IDT device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall.
When done, shut down the notebook by holding down the left Shift key as you click on Shutdown to temporarily prevent a hybrid boot.
Unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 20 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers/HP' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
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Beats audio and Windows 8

Product Name: HP P6-2133W
Product Number: QW728AA#ABA
My Question is if i choose when Windows 8 (RTM) is Released on October 26th, and i pay for $14.99 Windows 8 Pro 64bit upgrade, if i choose to do a clean install on this HP PC, would i lose my Beats Audio sound on here? Antivirus i plan on using i think built in Windows Defender in WIndows 8 as well.
Just finding out ahead of time so i can plan the apporiate time, and have everything i need to have a successful upgrade to WIndows 8 Pro 64bit

No problem. Also, when did you purchase your PC? If it was on or after Aug 17, you also qualify for a $15 dollar refund from HP after you upgrade to Win8.
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Start up error and beats audio crackling after realtech driver update

I am having several issues.
If I plug in a external hard drive, the OS will not start and goes to "press esc for start up menu" in lower left corner on a black screen. I press esc and it goes to boot options. I have done what HP states and hard started my computer twice and it did not help, and I have found no other suggestion to try and fix this. I have tried everything, including a system recovery and it still goes to the start up menu options. If I disconnect the external, it will still appear, but the operating system will start up after a few seconds. Why do I have to disconnect my external to start OS. And for some reason, my external has been seated in the hardrive section of my computer, instead of the removable storage devices in my computer.
Also, after updating realtech driver, my beats audio speakers pops and cracks. I tried to roll back driver, but no changes. Please help. I dont want to go thru the trouble of sending my computer back for repair. This is really upsetting!!!! I cannot play any videos or music, because of the crackling. Why did it do that, and is it fixable. My laptop has not been jarred or dropped in any manner to have caused any damage. It started after the driver update, and even tho I rolled back the driver, it still does this.

Hi @rbuckner35 ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion 17t-f000 Notebook and issues with Beats Audio and startup issues. The startup looks at the USB as one of your Boot options. So it can not load anything until it know that this is not a boot device.
You could restore the BIOS with this document selecting the reloading the BIOS default settings which could resolve the issue with the sound.
Here is a fix that has helped others.
1. Right click the Speaker icon in the bottom right corner by your time.
2. Click Playback Devices.
3. Click Speakers.
4. Click properties.
5. Click the advanced tab on the Properties window.
6. Change the Default Format drop-down to the highest quality.
7. Apply the properties.
8. Click OK to close the properties window.
I hope this helps.
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How do I stop the hp dv6 beats audio sound from pulsing and restore dynamic?

I just got a HP DV6-7030TX laptop, with beats audio and I find the sound is constantly changing in volume through the internal speakers
It seems to be, that the beats audio is trying to make quieter parts of the song louder, but when the loud parts come in there is a sudden drop is volume.
I am able to reproduce this time and time again with songs that stop-start and its also seems to get reset when I change one of the presets in the beats config tool (Listening experience tab, chaning between Music, 3D content and Movie), although it almost always reverts back to the limited volume.
I've tried updating the driver to the latest version on the HP website and also disabled the 'Beats Audio' checkbox in the config tool, but neither of these items help.
Other forums have suggested to disable settings on the Sound 'enhancements' tab in the control panel, but I don't seem to have this option on my laptop.
Otherwise I love this laptop, so it would be a shame to have to return the laptop because of this problem.
Thanks,

Download and install the driver from the linke below. it has a fix
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp57501-58000/sp57966.exe
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp57501-58000/sp57966.html

Beats Audio compression and volume fluctuation - HP ENVY m6-1178sa

Just wondering if there's actually been a fix for this yet, as it seems to be a common problem. Using an HP ENVY m6-1178sa and after scouring the internet high and low, none of the fixes seem to be working at all. Whether using the onboard laptop speakers, external speakers, or headphones, all loud sections in songs are dramatically reduced in volume and the low end is totally sucked out. I've had to revert to listening to music on my phone because Beats makes certain songs borderline unlistenable. If there hasn't been an official fix yet, then I urge you to make one as soon as posible, as sound quality was a major motivation for buying this laptop!

I have an HP Envy 17T I purchased in Jan. 2015 with Windows 8.1 and noticed the same issue of highly compressed audio when playing back music files no matter what app you used (Windows Media Player, iTunes, Virtual DJ, etc.). Like the rest of us, this has been driving me crazy. I can confirm that it is not a figment of your imagination - the compression is indeed caused by BeatsAudio. I find it incredible that a software app that supposedly claims a superior listening experience would overlook the ability to turn off such an annoying (and in-your-face) feature!!?? Oh well, so much for my soap box. I stumbled upon a solution that involves disabling Beats Audio and substituting another audio device driver in its place. The following steps work for Windows 8.1 on an HP Envy laptop: Go to Windows Device Manager > Sound, video and game controllers section.In the list of audio device drivers, look for Realtek High Definition Audio. This is the device driver for BeatsAudio (a little bit sneaky, wouldn’t you say?).Right-click and select Disable. The downward arrow displays on this driver, indicating it is disabled. (NOTE: At this point, you won’t be able to play any music files.)Right-click and select Update Driver Software.Select Browse my computer for driver software.Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.You should see a window that says Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware. NOTE: If you see a window that says something like This is the best driver for this device, exit the window and repeat steps 4, 5, and 6.In the Model box, highlight High Definition Audio Device (this is the substitute audio device driver) and click Next.At the Update Driver Warning window, click Yes. You should see a confirmation window with High Definition Audio Device displayed. Click Close.In the list of audio device drivers in the Sound, video and game controllerssection, you’ll notice that the High Definition Audio Device now displays instead ofRealtek High Definition Audio.At the prompt to reboot, click Yes.Enjoy your music now with no compression!! NOTE: If you miss the compression in your music, you can always go back to using BeatsAudio.Use the same steps above, just replace High Definition Audio Device driver with the RealTek High Definition Audio driver.

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Hi
Try fn+b toggle just open more and more of the Beats.exe process. I too have had this issue. The fix is a simple one.
Make sure you have the SWSETUP folder from the factory install backed up. If not, you need to get a copy of the HPTONECONTROL HPQUICKLAUNCH, and the IDT DRIVER (Audio driver) from that folder.
I tried to get these drivers and programs from the HP support website for the Envy 17, fn+b with these just causes more and more of the Beats.exe process to open up. Even getting HPQUICKLAUNCH and the IDT DRIVER from the HP Support website for my Envy 17 did not give me a working Beats Audio.
Note that HPTONECONTROL is not listed on the HP Support website. You must get this from the SWSETUP folder.
I have tested different combinations of different versions of HPQUICKLAUNCH, HPTONECONTROL, and the IDT DRIVER. Only the factory default versions of these actually give a working Beats Audio and fn+b toggle.
Hope this helps and saves you the trouble. Now time to figure out how to get back my life.
Edit: This applies to the Envy 17 and Envy 14 since they both use the HM55 chipset.
Let us know how it goes!
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How to switch off Beats audio to type the latter "B"

Hi Guys I've got a problem with Beats audio or keyboard, is anybody come cross when try to type a latter "B" pops up Beats audio and can't switch of it, so cant not type latter "B" at all, any ideas? many thanks

The keyboard shortcut for Beats is fn+b. It toggles it on and off. Other than that, you can pull it up from the start menu to turn it off.

Why is beat audio on the HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC so terrible?

I have had bad experience with audio on HP notebooks previously....
I had a dm1 which had a flawed duel mic/phones mini jack.
Years later (few months back), i was after new laptop. Decided upon a bigger machine, again HP pav. 15. I figured it would be alot better. And really i didnt stop to consider the beats audio element, as it turns out, that was a fail...
Soon after use i discovered that there was alot of post processes happening to the audio; ridiculous compression/limiter with huge dynamic fading in and out trigger by sharp hits. So a big quick hit, which would be at unity (0db) makes the limiter and thus overall gain fade down to 1/3 volume over the space of 10-15 seconds. Some tones and hits wont trigger the limiter. Some will slowly bring the volume up. Its remarkable.
EQ is forced. Lets start with the bass....typical to beat phones, the beatsaudio in my hp pav. 15 adds loads of bass.
Lauching the panel shows some of the processes...on eq the default is seemly nonsensical som faders at 100 others at 50. Putting the bass fader to 0 has little to no effect. I tried to make the EQ 0 across the board, what happens?...silence.
You have to have one fader to at least 1. Either bass, mid, treble, clarity, etc. Having mid on 5 is the closest to bypass as you can get!
Which leads me on the bypassing. You can uncheck use beats audio and opt for standard audio, wow perfect you think....wrong. Click bypass and there is NO BASS WHATSOEVER.
Its clearly done on purpose to make people think beats audio is amazing and you have to use it.
Side issue; even with beats on and faders cranked the loudess output according to mixer is about 50-60%, so wierd. With all the loudness processes its actually quiet.
Again, ridiculous. How its anyone who actually likes music supposed to get on with this!
Movies/vocal/tv etc hardly triggers the comp/limiting at all so you have to really crank the volume..until a particular tone or hit will make the volume fade up.
Beats audio is making all audio terrible and theres seemingly no way around it.
My options are BUY external soundcard for couple of hundred, half lappy value, or find a way via drivers/software to sort it.
I have seen this problem on forums and the suggested fix is to find and edit the xml files beats uses.
I dont know which, but found about 10 xmls in appdata/local/ somewhere. Opening in notepad it shows all the beatsaudio processes n each parameter there in.
I changed all the 'enable' from 1 (on/yes) to 0 (off/no) and generally zeroed everything. Saving is a pain, have to open notepaad as admin then open xml by looking for 'any file', then edit, then save as, again having to select 'anyfile' and replace. Took ages, even copying and pasting the whole text into each xml file.
Thought would be worth it to fix the problem and have a geniune bypass. Not the case.
Its driving me mental. What is HPs problem with audio. Laptops with 10 years ago would be better than this because at least the output would be normal, uneffected audio.
Surely there a way to get rid of beats audio and run standard windows audio?
Or even just a perfected edit of the (correct) xml files to tell the processes to do nothing!
Please help!

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HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook 5009 tx,PC problem with Beats audio

Hi ,
I have problem with the Beats audio from morning onwards on my PC running windows 7 Home, I even uninstalled some of the latest updates from windows, audio icon is showing (x) in redmark, i have uninstalled IDT audio but the problem still perstists, Please help me to resolve.
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Hi @Bhargava449
I saw your post regarding the problem with your Beats Audio and I will be happy to help. Use the HP Recovery Manager to Restore the Original Drivers look for the IDT High-Definition Audio driver. I have had success using this method to restore the Beats Audio with other customers using this method.
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Beats Audio won't turn on.

Okay, npot sure what happened. I am pretty sure it was working until just today. I went to play a youtube video, noticed the sound was bad, so I went and checked beats audio, and it was not on. I clicked to turn it on and it would not. I tried hitting reset settings and it says the program has an issue and shuts down. Please help.

Got it fixed! Reinstalled IDT.

REMOVE BEATS AUDIO, LOAD GENERIC SOUND DRIVE, MAINTAIN OR REINSTALL STEREO MIX, HP ENVY, 8.1

HP Envy Touchscreen 15-k073ca Notebook (new) with Windows 8.1, Beats Audio and stereo mix Instructions as detailed as possible would be appreciated to totally remove Beats Audio from the notebook and load Windows generic sound drive. I would also like instructions on how to enable the stereo mix option which is included in the new notebook I do not know if totally removing Beats Audio also removes or adversely affects the stereo mix, if so, detailed instructions on how to repair or reinstall the stereo mix would also be appreciatedIf this becomes necessay, I would have to check with HP to see if the warranty is affected. To receive the best results with Audacity, stereo mix is required and Beats Audio has to be completely removed from the notebook. Beats Audio produces bad results when using Audacity Any response on all or part of this post would be appreciated

Hello ,
Welcome to the HP Forums! I understand you wish to remove Beats Audio from your notebook and use the generic Windows drivers. Follow these steps:Press Windows + R.Type msconfig and click OK.Click the Start up tab.Uncheck IDT PC Audio.Click Apply.Reboot.Press Windows + R.Type devmgmt.msc and click OK.Expand Sound, Video and Game Controllers.Right click IDT device and click UninstallCheck the box to remove the driver.Reboot.This should disable the Beats Audio allowing you to uninstall it and subsequently force Windows to reinstall the generic audio drivers. Keep in mind without the Beats Audio you may not have access to the Stereo Mix feature. Is the Stereo Mix device not listed in recording devices or is it listed but showing unavailable? Typically the stereo mix feature will not work unless it is set as the default device or if the internal microphone is disabled. Let me know if this helps.

Sound or beats audio problems

hi,
i ve just bought a brand new hp pavilion dv6 6190 with beats audio and the sound of it is not right....it sounds like something missing of the audio especially the base , can anyone help? thank you....
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Hi,
Try using Recovery Manager to reinstall your IDT Audio Driver ( this will also reinstall the Beats Audio interface ) - the procedure for using recovery manager to reinstall Software and Drivers is detailed in the relevant document on the link below.
Recovery Manager - Windows 7
After the reinstallation has completed, restart the notebook.
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Beats Audio sound fluctuation Envy 15t

This is truly frustrating. I've been through several topics in these forums as well as searching for an answer to this but to no avail.
When I plug up external speakers through my heaphone jack on my HP Envy 15 computer, the sound fluctuates when doing anything--watching videos, playing video games, and especially listening to music. Vocals become muffled and bass drowns out other sounds...it sounds like pure garbage. It feels like it's only bearable when listening to the laptop speakers themselves. The speakers on this laptop has a subwoofer and although they sound pretty decent, they aren't sufficient enough to use for my purposes. I want real quality sound for my media, and that's why I use my external sound system.
I've tried adjusting the EQ, updating the Realtek drivers, and rolling back to Microsoft's generic audio drivers. Rolling back seemed to help adjust the sound to normal levels with my external sound system but essentially killed the laptop speakers (which I've read that only the Beats Audio Realtek Audio drivers can truly control all the speakers). The generic drivers are pretty old--2 years old to be exact. I still need the laptop speakers to function as intended without having to choose between them and my external sound system. I shouldn't have to either.
Seems like this has been a problem for years with HP and Beats Audio and there's still no solution. I bought this laptop over a month ago and if I'd known about this problem, I would have definitely bought something else besides HP. I love everything about this laptop BUT the sound. I can't enjoy my media with external speakers plugged due to this issue. Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

Good Morning @lbrou87 ,
Thank you for your reply. I know how disappointing this issue is.
The next thing to try would is a recovery back to factory.
HP PCs - Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 8)
You will have an opportunity to backup your personal files to prevent data loss during that process. If you have not already done a backup now would be a good time.
HP PCs - Restoring Files that were Backed Up Using HP Recovery Manager (Windows 8).
If the issue should remain please contact HP support for further assistance.
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