October 2002
Beginner to intermediate
728 pages
21h 8m
English
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Sound
Mac OS X’s sound options are a little on the lean side, but a visit to the Sound panel is still worthwhile. Using the panes of the Sound panel, you can configure the sound system of your Mac in the following ways:
Sound Effects
“Sound effects” means error beeps—the sound you hear when the Mac wants your attention, or when you click someplace you shouldn’t.
Mac OS X introduced a mostly new set of choices in the list of alert sounds. Only one of the classic old favorites remains—the famous Sosumi (named, as the legend goes, when Apple Records threatened to sue Apple Computer for adding sound-recording features to the Mac years ago). The newcomers, including Basso, Frog, Funk, Ping, Pop, and Tink, are funny and clever, yet subdued enough to be of practical value as alert sounds. Just click the sound of your choice to make it your default system beep.
As for the other controls on the Sound Effects panel, they include:
Alert Volume slider. Some Mac users are confused by the fact that even when they drag this slider all the way to the left, the sound from games and music CDs still plays at full volume.
The actual main volume slider for your Mac is at the bottom of the Sound panel, called “Output volume.” The slider on the Alert Sounds panel is just for error beeps; Apple was kind enough to let you adjust the volume of these error beeps independently.
Play user interface sound effects. This option produces a few subtle sound effects when you perform certain Finder operations: dragging ...
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