"Play sound for new mail" volume setting...

[f-117]

Is there a way to adjust the volume for the "Play sound for new mail"? The volume for the "New mail" chime is too loud.

In the about:config there are two volume settings:

media.default_volume
media.volume_scale

Both have a ".8" value setting.

Would adjusting/lowering these values reduce the "New mail" sound so it's not so loud? I'm not sure what they actually do.

Thanks for any help.

Scott

[Bilbo47]

Depending on your OS, some "Sound Mixer" control panel applets keep a per-app volume level that persists over reboots.
Also it's possible to set a custom mail-alert playback file. Mine uses a text-to-speech synthesized voice speaking the name of the app, so I know which app fired off the mail-alert sound. Without that, all mail apps would make the same "ding".

[athenian200]

Well, Epyrus chooses the sound to play for new mail based on the system default. So if the sound is too loud, that means your system's default chimes are set to play too loud, and this probably affects other applications besides Epyrus. It's just that it probably sounds more annoying with Epyrus because whatever sound was picked for the default new mail was probably particularly grating.

Though, if Epyrus plays the same sounds significantly louder than other applications on your OS do by default, that might qualify as a bug.

So you would have to adjust the sound of sound effects in the whole OS, unfortunately. I don't believe Epyrus has a way to control the sound volume itself, because it goes through libraries that leave it up to the system defaults.

[f-117]

Thanks guys! I was able to adjust it in System Volume.

Scott

[Moonchild]

Though, if Epyrus plays the same sounds significantly louder than other applications on your OS do by default, that might qualify as a bug.

if they are system sounds then it would not be part of epyrus