I didn't say mute. I said you can't turn it off, as in not have it running in systray. I now have a service running on two machines that I'm not using. There should be a way to turn it off and on.  

You can stop the service and set it to manual if you wish and then when you want it just start the service.

Stopping the service will disable it, though you should be aware that no setting changes will be saved if the service is not running and you open the config UI.

So you're saying stop it in services, set to manual,run it when you want, then turn it off via task manager every time I use it? Or reboot? Seems a tad much.

Can I assume that a future build will have a on/off switch? If not, thanks for the trial, I'm probably not a buyer.

I know it seems simple, but why not right click/exit?

You do not need to involve taskmanager at all.

Once the service is set to manual it will not start unless you want it.  Start the service to start it running, stop the service to stop it running.  On stop it automatically closes all the processes and on start it starts all the processes.

From a command prompt "net stop acousticbridge" stops it and "net start acousticbridge" would start it, though it needs admin rights.

BTW what issue do you have with the service and child process running all the time? 

They are not using much memory when doing nothing or any cpu.

WindowBlinds, WindowFX etc all work in the very same way.  A service and a process running.

Well, I guess , if everything I install does the same, then what? I mean, if I had my way, WindowBlinds, and WindowFX wouldn't have any running processes while unloaded. Where is the line drawn? How much is too much?

One of the reasons we users "customize" our rigs is to have it look good, work well, AND have it run fast.  Given, a few things running all the time isn't so terrible, but if all software did that, medium to low end rigs would slow down.

I like having control of what runs and what don't. Especially if I'm not using it.

When I turn something off, I would prefer it to be off.

It's just me, I guess.

Seriously, why so hard? Why not a simple button/checkbox to turn it off. Some people I know have no business messing around in services. Or command prompt, for that matter.

I agree with the Redneck.  It seems more and more software wants to add itself to startup, add a service or two and as many running processes as they deem fit. (IE9 and NVidia are both good examples) Add all the updaters and before you know it ,taskmanager is a long, confusing list of mostly unneeded, unused processes.

The first thing I did with both my rigs was to shut down a load of these or switch to manual Good software will at least let me do that. Great software will make it easy for me by giving an option, like r-click the systray and exit, restart by clicking on a desktop icon the program created.

Simply put, casual users with low end rigs don't need any extra load of things running when not needed and the power users with high end rigs don't want them.

One thing I've already noticed that makes this not very useful for me is that you have to have speakers (or headphones) plugged into the PC that you want to stream music from.

I was hoping that you could use this on a PC without speakers to stream the music to a primary PC (since I use Input Director to control multiple PC's from one).

Problem is, the secondary PC's don't have speakers... so Windows has the sound on mute because "No speakers or headphones are plugged in".

You may have an option in your sound drivers to disable this feature.

I want to say this is on a Realtek sound card, yes?

They are.  I went and fiddled around with a few things (updated the realtek drivers, toggle the sound card off in BIOS then back on, etc).

Something in all of that seemed to get it out of that state and just to "muted" normally.  Now the sound is coming across fine.

This is quite awesome.

Any guess as to what it was?

Looking at some of the threads out there based on that text string, I'd say it was the BIOS toggle, tbh.  Microsoft lists your soundcard being disabled in BIOS as one of the main reasons for that error.  So if for some reason the system thought it was disabled at the BIOS level...

Seeing as how the drivers had been updated fairly recently, that was the only thing that I did that I think made any difference.

You might want to look into this. Icon in the taskbar clones itself endlessly in the tray. Seems to happen on the receiver only.

Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.

EDIT: Happens while receiving, turn off sending on the other machine stops the cloning.

EDIT2 : On the 'sender' machine AB turns the volume on off on off every second. Creative Xi-Fi USB there.

EDIT3: Tried another machine as sender, same result. Audio is turned on/off forever. Needless to say no sound at all at the receiver...

Bought too soon, I guess. But as this is beta I hope the issues will be handled soon.

Network is gigabit here, just for info.