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  • Dave2002
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 18034
    #1

    OS X audio problem

    I sometimes use my Macbook Pro to feed an external DVD via an optical link, or sometimes via USB. The sound quality can be very good, and for example useful to listening to Radio 3 - currently CD review. However, if I get any new email, or a system update, there is a rather loud and intrusive audible alarm. Is it possible to ensure that audio streams one wants to listen to are not interrupted by such extraneous events?

    An additional complication - though of course not one which anyone round here would know about is if one's attention is not fully engaged in the aural delights of one's selected channel, and indulges in looking up information on t'Internet, some web pages have music or other sounds - often at a very high volume - which can be very disruptive, and swamp the sounds being listened to. Of course, I can only rely on others to tell me this!
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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30448
    #2
    If you use Mail, can't you turn off the 'New Messages Sound' under the Preferences? Can't help with the extraneous music - Wikipedia doesn't usually have any :-)
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Dave2002
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 18034
      #3
      Thanks. Now set to "None" - so let's hope that works.

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357
        #4
        Setting the "onboard" sounds to None (or even making silent audio files with the same name as the ones that are supposed to play and then replacing them ............ a Windows last resort strategy !). Is one of the first things I would do with any computer, ipad, phone or other device.
        However as I think you are listening to streaming on the internet you still will get the sounds of other websites as i'm not sure that you can selectively control the audio to come from a single web based source ?

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        • Dave2002
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 18034
          #5
          Thanks to both of you. I have a feeling I asked the question about mail before, and had the answer too, though not quite sure why I would have needed to ask again, apart from the onset of senile D! I wonder if the settings get changed by upgrades.

          I get suspicious of changes which appear on my computers - and a recent one is the rather small size for the Keyboard Viewer - I'm sure it was a lot larger last time I used it a few weeks ago, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to resize that - it doesn't even appear as an application, with its own preferences. Something may have changed, and I don't know how or why. I don't appear to have any control over the size as it appears on my screen - Zoom doesn't work for that.

          MrGG - you are right today. I am listening to R3 via iTunes (I know you hate that ....) and it may be impossible to differentiate between different Internet sources - which I've always thought was a **** nuisance. I'm not sure if there's actually a difference if I listen to a local source, such as a CD or download and then cut out the Internet sound altogether - but that's not what I was trying today.

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          • MrGongGong
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 18357
            #6
            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post

            MrGG - you are right today. I am listening to R3 via iTunes (I know you hate that ....) and it may be impossible to differentiate between different Internet sources - which I've always thought was a **** nuisance. I'm not sure if there's actually a difference if I listen to a local source, such as a CD or download and then cut out the Internet sound altogether - but that's not what I was trying today.
            If the source is local (CD or from the computers HD) then it should be simple to cut out the internet sound.
            Depending on what OS / Browser you are using there should be preferences for that.

            Let me know if you work it out as it would be useful to know.

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            • Dave2002
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 18034
              #7
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              If the source is local (CD or from the computers HD) then it should be simple to cut out the internet sound.
              Depending on what OS / Browser you are using there should be preferences for that.

              Let me know if you work it out as it would be useful to know.

              OK

              I seem to have "solved" the small keyboard viewer problem - though not quite sure how it arose in the first place. Firstly, the viewer does respond to the green button - top left of the viewer panel - red -yellow - green - which is almost invisible in the very small version. This brings up a very much larger version.
              Then note that it is possible to resize the viewer by dragging from the bottom right - which is normal enough. Then try toggling with the green button again. Eventually it may be that a small viewer of the required size is produced - by experimenting with dragging and switching between large and small versions.

              I don't mind - indeed I want - small, but microscopic, no!

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