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Check sound balance if audio quality has dropped
Authored by: ppatoray on Sep 14, '03 05:07:22AM

Same here, powerbook G3/500 use the volume keys all of the time, and I never even thought to look in the preferences! Funny, because I had tried everything else, including switching out the cord to the stereo thinking it might be bad.

Thanks for pointing this out, my music now sounds much better!

I like the applescript ideas here, but it should be easier than this. From what I have found, the preference is stored in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.soundpref.plist under the OutputDevices key. Shouldn't there be a way to write this easily via unix, and set it to a cron?

Anybody have any idea what the AlertsUseMainDevice key is for?



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Different output for alerts
Authored by: saint.duo on Sep 14, '03 11:33:27PM

SoundSource I believe uses this tag, as it can set a different output for "system" sounds from everything else.

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This is what I see in my error logs
Authored by: ppatoray on Sep 15, '03 06:39:22PM

Every once in a while when I adjust the volume using the keys, I will see a huge string of the following in /var/log/system.log:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer:kCGErrorIllegalArgument : CGSGetWindowGeometry:Invalid window

This will appear about 20-50 times for each time I press the volume key. This only appears occasionally, and once it does, it will continue until I reboot. I went in and looked at my balance settings after seeing a series of these, and sure enough, the balance was starting to head back over to the right.

I am assuming that there is some sort of extension conflict causing this, but am not sure exactly what.



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