Re: Applescript to mute sound at shutdown
Re: Applescript to mute sound at shutdown
- Subject: Re: Applescript to mute sound at shutdown
- From: Eric Sackett <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:47:49 -0400
My G4 AGP will not play the startup sound if the volume is set to zero.
I used to have a set of script applets that would set the volume to zero at
shutdown, then set it to volume 2 at startup. I downloaded them from some
web site, but they should be easy enough to script.
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Eric
Jeff Ganyard wrote:
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At 12:18 PM -0400 7/16/01, Paul Philpott wrote:
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> on 2001/07/16 11:58 AM, Robert Poland at email@hidden wrote:
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>> As Jean-Marie posted this will work.
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>> --set volume : Set the sound output volume
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>> set volume number -- the volume level,
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>> -- from 0 (silent) to 7 (full volume)
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>> Except that the "System" resets the volume to the default minimum
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>> allowed setting at startup. In other words you cannot mute the
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>> startup sound.
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> Robert:
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> It is very disheartening that Apple has overlooked this obvious annoyance.
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> What an easy fix it would be for the OS developers. Surely I am not the only
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> person annoyed by this.
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> You say that we cannot mute the startup chime. I think this is incorrect.
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> When I turn the volume to zero manually (apple, control panel, volume) prior
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> to shutdown, I hear no chime at startup. Perhaps the problem you describe
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> applies only to a setting of "mute" rather than "zero"?
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> Admiringly, Paul
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Paul,
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you use a PowerBook, don't you? The startup chime will not sound on a
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muted PowerBook, but last I checked it will sound on all desktops,
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always (excepting something in the sound out jack overriding).
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jeff