If you have iTunes blasting through your external speakers and the phone rings, this miniscule script is the answer (at least in OS X. Otherwise use Jon’s Commands)
set volume with output muted
display dialog "Restore volume setting" buttons {"Yes"} default button 1 -- the script just sits there until you answer
if button returned of result = "Yes" then set volume without output muted
Hi Adam
Anyway to adjust this script a little so that it runs on Shutdown, turning the volume down to a respectable level (say half volume)? I am tired of turning on the Mac and having it boom out its startup chord at full volume…it sometimes even wakes our baby who sleeps in the next room!
Matthew
Save this a application (Stay Open)
Leave it running. It will just sit there doing nothing until its quit.
When its quit if the volume is more than 50% it will set the volume to 50%
on quit
tell application "System Events"
set getSound to (get volume settings) as list
set ShutdownLevel to 50
set Theoutput to item 1 of getSound
if Theoutput > ShutdownLevel then
set volume output volume ShutdownLevel
end if
end tell
end quit
ah hold on a sec. the app works but does not quit…
be back…
I should be able to tell the app to quit me.
but I never seem to be able to get it to work well…
any way this works. just make sure the meapp is set to the same name as the name you give the app
put \ befor any spaces.
global meapp
on quit
tell application "System Events"
set meapp to "Sound\\ down.app"
set getSound to (get volume settings) as list
set ShutdownLevel to 50
set Theoutput to item 1 of getSound
if Theoutput > ShutdownLevel then
set volume output volume ShutdownLevel
end if
end tell
quit_()
end quit
on quit_()
set thePID to do shell script "ps acx |grep -i " & quoted form of meapp & " | awk {'print $1'}" as string
do shell script "kill " & thePID
end quit_
Hi matt,
Save this as a stay-open application, and get it to open at login if you want restore the volume after starting up:
property lowVolume : 25
property fullVolume : 75
on run
set volume output volume fullVolume
end run
on quit
set fullVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
set volume output volume lowVolume
continue quit
end quit
(I haven’t tried/tested it.)
I’ve used ‘tell me to quit’ successfully in stay open scripts…
Might be worth a try.
Peter B.
Thanks.
But I tried it every way but L…
Hi Mark, Querty Denzel et al
Thanks for your advice and suggestions re this problem. I am testing Querty Denzel’s suggestion as I didn’t know how to deal with the meapp thing! I’m a newbie at AppleScript.
I will let you know if it does the job.
Regards
Matthew
A key item in an ‘on quit’ handler is the ‘continue quit’. You’ve trapped the original quit command to do stuff and interrrupted that process - you have to restore it with the last line: ‘continue quit’. Qwerty has it right.
Hi all
The script (Querty Denzel’s version) does exactly what I want, however I’d rather that it wasn’t an app that stayed open all the time. Is there any way to run it at shutdown? - like under OS9 where there was a Shutdown Items folder.
Matthew
For those who are too lazy:
I wrote an Application upon this.
It’s called “Psst” (Universal Binary) ” http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/16780
It’s a invisible background app and uses absolutely no CPU !!!
Matt1710 worried about a stay-open app. Qwerty’s application uses a twitch of cpu to do “on run” then does nothing but occupy a tiny bit of memory as a compiled script app in memory until System Events tells it to quit as part of the logout process (which quits all running apps). If you check in the Activity Monitor while you’re working, you’ll see it is doing nothing.
Thanks Adam for the continue quit bit.
I always new there was a on quit handler but never looked it up. Doh
Hi
I’m not so much concerned with the amount of memory that the app uses - I may be being fussy about this but what I don’t like is having that AppleScript icon in the dock all day long…
If there’s a way to remove that it’d be cool…
Matthew
Hi Querty Denzel
Awesome - that’s just what I needed.
Matthew