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10.5: Long alert sounds will not work in 10.5
Authored by: boxcarl on Nov 09, '07 03:24:18PM

I don't know for sure, but I think that 10.5 keeps alert sounds from paging out of memory and being cached to disk. With 10.4, even if you have a top of the line Mac, if you press volume up after a long enough without using the volume controls, there's a second or two of delay while the disk is accessed and the sound is loaded and played. In 10.5, it seems to me like this problem has been fixed. But if Apple really did fix it, then probably as a consequence of keeping these sounds in memory at all times, Apple has added this cap to keep people from permanently filling up their memory with an overly long alert sound.



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