The VMware tools are installed. The volume on both of them is set to the defaults, but I'll try lowering the volume on the guest OS first, and then the host.

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On VMware Workstation Player 12.5.2 (free for non-commercial usage), I am having issues in Windows XP virtual machines with the sound.

The sound output by the VM sounds poor, extremely...

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