IAudioSessionControl::SetGroupingParam method (audiopolicy.h)

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10/13/2021

The SetGroupingParam method assigns a session to a grouping of sessions.

Syntax

HRESULT SetGroupingParam(
  [in] LPCGUID Override,
  [in] LPCGUID EventContext
);

Parameters

[in] Override

The new grouping parameter. This parameter must be a valid, non-NULL pointer to a grouping-parameter GUID. For more information, see Remarks.

[in] EventContext

Pointer to the event-context GUID. If a call to this method generates a grouping-change event, the session manager sends notifications to all clients that have registered IAudioSessionEvents interfaces with the session manager. The session manager includes the EventContext pointer value with each notification. Upon receiving a notification, a client can determine whether it or another client is the source of the event by inspecting the EventContext value. This scheme depends on the client selecting a value for this parameter that is unique among all clients in the session. If the caller supplies a NULL pointer for this parameter, the client's notification method receives a NULL context pointer.

Return value

If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, possible return codes include, but are not limited to, the values shown in the following table.

Return code	Description
E_POINTER	Parameter Grouping is NULL.
AUDCLNT_E_DEVICE_INVALIDATED	The audio endpoint device has been unplugged, or the audio hardware or associated hardware resources have been reconfigured, disabled, removed, or otherwise made unavailable for use.
AUDCLNT_E_SERVICE_NOT_RUNNING	The Windows audio service is not running.

Remarks

A client calls this method to change the grouping parameter of a session. All of the audio sessions that have the same grouping parameter value are under the control of the same volume-level slider in the system volume-control program, Sndvol. For more information, see Grouping Parameters.

The client can get the current grouping parameter for the session by calling the IAudioSessionControl::GetGroupingParam method.

If a client has never called SetGroupingParam to assign a grouping parameter to a session, the session does not belong to any grouping. A session that does not belong to any grouping has its own, dedicated volume-level slider in the Sndvol program.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows Vista [desktop apps \| UWP apps]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps \| UWP apps]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	audiopolicy.h