Feature Request: mute button

[sniggles]

I'm missing a button or option to temporarily mute sounds, e. g. to avoid disturbing the environment or corrupt simultaneous audio recordings.

It'd be possible to empty the corresponding sound file paths in the options, but obviously this is highly inconvenient.

[therube]

temporarily

Missed that the first time.

Well, aside from that, if you remove the path to the sounds (in Tools | Options), or if you instead enter a path to a "sound" that does not make a sound ;-).

On the temporary part, you could automate something (batch file) that leaves the paths to the sounds the same, but changes the actual files for the "no-sound" version.

FFS-no-sound.bat:

REN c:/sounds/encode_complete.wav c:/sounds/encode_complete.BU.wav
REN c:/sounds/encode_complete_NS.wav c:/sounds/encode_complete.wav
...
{on program close, rename back...}

BU being a BackUp of the sound file (with sound)
NS being a "sound" that has "No Sound" (something like, silence ;-))


Oh, & on Windows, I believe each sound "player" can have its' own sound volume.
So if you were to set the "sound volume" of FFS to muted...
See what Nirsoft might have in that respect (& all of which can be run from command-line or GUI).

Video/Audio Related Utilities

Starting from Windows Vista, you are allowed to change the sound volume of every application separately ...