I have been searching for a way to change the name displayed in the Windows volume mixer/sndvol used in Win 7 preferably that would work with Vista as well. This might not be such an issue if I was not using OpenAL-Soft to create my sounds. The only references I seem to come up with are directed to the Windows Core Audio API. I am trying to not use any more OS specific APIs than I have to so I can more easily port my finished program to Linux later if I wish without having to basically just rewrite my whole program.
Right now my program shows in the mixer, but has the ".exe" attached to it, which I think looks unprofessional. I found this article on MSDN regarding the CA API, but seems to be more suited to if you are going to access the Windows APIs yourself, and so far my attempts to just use IAudioSessionControl::SetDisplayName didn't change anything, since I basically just tried to use only that.
I would prefer to not have to add more than a 10-15 lines of code to just do this, and appears for me to use this API I will be looking at a lot more lines of code. Is there a way I can change the display name my program appears as in Windows volume mixer?
