Volume Settings

Every second day the volume setting which controls hearing voicemails turns itself down for high to low. Why does this happen and what can be done to stop the volume altering itself?

The audio volume is a property of the QuickTime file
and can't be adjusted except via the volume slider
(part of the QuickTime controller) or by your total
Sound System Preferences adjustments.
Since each file is different no "one" setting will
work with all files.
The "Up/Down" arrow keys can control playback volume.
A QuickTime file inside a browser window may need to
be clicked once before the keyboard takes control of
focus.
BUT WHY MUST IT BE THAT WAY, IE, NOT BE USER CONFIGUREABLE? I'VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR A DEFINITIVE ANSWER. WHY IS IT THAT I/WE CANNOT SET THE QUICKTIME PLAYER *DEFAULT VOLUME* AS A USER PREFERENCE?
Whenever I click on a multimedia file and forget about reducing the player's volume level from its 100% default setting, well, sometimes it can make me jump off of the chair and it can wake up the whole household at night. I'm also very concerned it might one day blow up my high-power hifi stereo and speakers. Does Applecare cover that?
As everyone knows, volume levels vary greatly from file to file, and therefore it's not a good enough solution to rely on the adjustment of the system sound by itself. As the end user, I find the default level of 100% on Quicktime Player to be too dangerous. The other media players are more user-friendly that way, so why can't QP be too? Please, Quicktime, fix it.
Clearly, Apple rocks. Keep up the good work.
Powerbook 12" G4, 1.33GHz, 1.25MB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Hi guys,
I have been having a problem with my Mac Book from the start. According to what I have read on the Internet my Intel based Mac Book should retain volume settings separately for my headphones and my internal speakers.
Meaning that once I have changed the settings for the volumes it should set the correct volume if I connect my headphones or use my internal speakers. This does happen and work normally.
However after restarting my Mac Book volume settings are not retained and once I connect my headphones the volume is set to 56%. Similarly this happens for my internal speakers as well.
This also describes my problem http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=88936
Could someone help me out with this, I have already reset my PRAM and NVRAM
So the option described on this page does not work for me.
http://www.macworld.com/article/53791/2006/11/intelphonevol.html
Message was edited by: W.R.R. Farid

I have suffered this problem too.
Both pair of my headphones, one came with iPod, are loud enough at 6%.
56% is surely going to kill my ears.
I've been googling around and found no solution.
But this is not the most depressing thing.
Let's take a look at this
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24586
*Last Modified: March 08, 2007*
Obviously Apple was aware of this problem two years ago. And the only solution is to "adjust the volume level and balance as desired after restarting the computer."
Waht the __?!
This is not even a real solution.
Why wounldn't OS X just remember custom volume settings for headphones?
When are you going to correct this issue any way?

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