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#1 2008-05-17 06:01:20 am
- ged3000
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- Registered: 2008-05-17
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Setting Sound Balance with AppleScript
Hi,
One of the speakers that I use with my computer is a bit temperamental, so I want to make an applescript to quickly adjust my balance from middle, to left, to right, and back to middle automatically, to see if it's packed in again. However, i can't seem to find any way of doing it easily, and wondered if anyone could help!
It seems that there's no easy setting to change to alter the balance (that I could find) - the only solutions I could see seem to use the Applescript UI scripting, which I can't seem to work out how to use.
Can anyone help me?
Model: Powerbook G4
AppleScript: 1.10.7
Browser: Safari 525.13
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
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#2 2008-05-17 06:12:41 am
Re: Setting Sound Balance with AppleScript
Hi,
something like this
Applescript:
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "output" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell slider 1 of group 1 of tab group 1 of window 1 of process "System Preferences"
set value to 1.0
delay 1
set value to -1.0
delay 1
set value to 0
end tell
end tell
regards
Stefan
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#3 2008-05-17 06:52:38 am
- ged3000
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Re: Setting Sound Balance with AppleScript
That's brilliant, thankyou! Just what I was looking for!
And I was so close, it was just the "set value to..." command that I couldn't figure out for myself...
Thanks!
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#4 2011-12-24 01:21:41 am
- olli
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- Registered: 2008-11-01
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Re: Setting Sound Balance with AppleScript
I have tried the above mentioned script and in Lion at least the slider's range is different.
It is not from -1 to 1 but from 0 to 1, with
0 = only left output
0.5 = centered output
1 = only right output
Hope this helps.
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