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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:48 pm

cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
Please confirm before I also brainfart.
Thanks

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Re: output sound volume

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:32 pm

rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.


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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:51 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Fine, thank you Gale.
I'll let you know what's the result.

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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:12 pm

rtomasov wrote:
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Fine, thank you Gale.
I'll let you know what's the result.
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Well, it worked and then it didn't.
Core Audio seems to be temperamental, or is it OSX?
First try after reboot gave an excellent volume output.
Then it went back to previous state.
Don't know what to think about it.
Thank you all.

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Re: output sound volume

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:29 pm

rtomasov wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Fine, thank you Gale.
I'll let you know what's the result.
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Well, it worked and then it didn't.
Core Audio seems to be temperamental, or is it OSX?
First try after reboot gave an excellent volume output.
Then it went back to previous state.
Don't know what to think about it.
Thank you all.
Do you still have to select the USB headset in Audacity before the headset can be heard at all in other applications?

You could perhaps repeat the plist file deletions then reboot, then observe if the problem only starts after the plist files are recreated.


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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:48 pm

rtomasov wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Fine, thank you Gale.
I'll let you know what's the result.
Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:
cyrano wrote:Yes. Sorry, brainfart.
So, the files are in /Library/Preferences/Audio?
That's the only place those files should be, so yes you can delete them, reboot and let the Mac recreate them.
Gale
Well, it worked and then it didn't.
Core Audio seems to be temperamental, or is it OSX?
First try after reboot gave an excellent volume output.
Then it went back to previous state.
Don't know what to think about it.
Thank you all.
This post is becoming a huge behemoth: Neither Audacity v2.1.1 nor v2.1.2 would not launch.
I've read Gale's post about Audacity not launching and followed instructions therein (please see "audacity.cfgattachment.).
There is no line under "Directories" that looks like TempDir=/tmp/audacity1.2-<your user name

I don't want to delete that line without further instructions.
Thank you all again,
Ruben

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Re: output sound volume

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:42 pm

rtomasov wrote:Neither Audacity v2.1.1 nor v2.1.2 would not launch.
A double negative means that Audacity would launch. ;)
rtomasov wrote:I've read Gale's post about Audacity not launching and followed instructions therein (please see "audacity.cfgattachment.).
There is no line under "Directories" that looks like TempDir=/tmp/audacity1.2-<your user name

I don't want to delete that line without further instructions.
You did not attach anything, but simply quit Audacity then delete the audacity.cfg settings file.


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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:33 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:
rtomasov wrote:Neither Audacity v2.1.1 nor v2.1.2 would not launch.
A double negative means that Audacity would launch. ;)
That was not a double negative but they didn't launch .eother one.
rtomasov wrote:I've read Gale's post about Audacity not launching and followed instructions therein (please see "audacity.cfgattachment.).
There is no line under "Directories" that looks like TempDir=/tmp/audacity1.2-<your user name

I don't want to delete that line without further instructions.
You did not attach anything, but simply quit Audacity then delete the audacity.cfg settings file.
Gale
I thought I did, sorry; I would've liked to re-attach it but both extension cfg and extension rtf are not allowed: what can I do?
Copying the file's text is not giid as it is quite large, so?
Ruben

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Re: output sound volume

Post by rtomasov » Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:39 pm

rtomasov wrote:Well, it worked and then it didn't.
Core Audio seems to be temperamental, or is it OSX?
First try after reboot gave an excellent volume output.
Then it went back to previous state.
Don't know what to think about it.
Thank you all.
Gale Andrews wrote: Do you still have to select the USB headset in Audacity before the headset can be heard at all in other applications?
You could perhaps repeat the plist file deletions then reboot, then observe if the problem only starts after the plist files are recreated.
Gale
Yes, I do.

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Re: output sound volume

Post by Gale Andrews » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:27 am

rtomasov wrote:
Gale Andrews wrote: Do you still have to select the USB headset in Audacity before the headset can be heard at all in other applications?
You could perhaps repeat the plist file deletions then reboot, then observe if the problem only starts after the plist files are recreated.
Gale
Yes, I do.
So does the problem only start after the plist files are recreated? It's a thin chance, but it might be possible to edit the plist files. You would not do that in TextEdit though.

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