[Opensim-users] A question for the sound

[xristina volioti]

Ok I tested what you've said.. I have the same preferences to both computers and the result is that I can hear the sounds in laptop with XP but I still cannot hear the sounds in laptop with Windows 7. Also a friend of mine tested it to his computer (Windows 7, 64-bit) and he can't hear any sound. Do you know if it runs to the Windows 7, 64-bit? Also when I log in, a menu pops up with this "Your system contains a graphic card that is unknown to us at this time." Do you know if this is the problem?
Thank you for your useful help!!Best regards,Christina


Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 04:50:07 -0800
From: wade.schuette at gmail.com
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] A question for the sound


  
    
  
  
    Christina,

      

      You may have several different problems.

      

      First, there is no "standard" volume for uploaded files.  I even
      have problems with some normal mp3's in iTunes

      

       You may need to increase the volume of your sounds and reload
      them.    Most people I know use a wonderful free product called
      Audacity to do that sort of tweaking.  I've had to increase volume
      of files many times.

      http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

      

      (side note - If you ever want to use audacity to make mp3 files,
      you also need a separate download it tells you about.)

      If you get to that point, it's easy to use audacity to really
      boost the volume of your clips and see if that helps. 

      

      So, one question I'd ask is whether you can hear OTHER sounds, and
      whether other people can hear the sounds YOU uploaded.   Both of
      those tests can help pin down whether the problems are at the
      server end or the client end, or both.

      

      First test any YouTube video with soft music to be sure your local
      machine volume is working properly on both clients.

      The Moonlight Sonata is a good test. I like this version:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk

      

      It's remarkably easy to inadvertently alter or even mute the local
      machine's volume control.   Even when you have it set correctly, 
      ill-behaved products such as Skype can change your volume and
      leave it changed when you exit them.

      Microsoft operating systems have a number of hidden ways they try
      to be "helpful" that interfere with sound in non-obvious ways,
      both output and mike-input. 

      

      Make sure you shove EVERY slider on your audio preferences panel
      to the far right for testing this sort of thing, to eliminate that
      as a confounding problem.

      

      The script commands PLAY and LOOP, or whatever they are,  both
      have their own volume option -- make sure it's set to the maximum.
      (1.0 ?? I forget right now.)

      

      Summary:

            (1)  test to see if you can hear the Moonlight Sonata
      equally loud on each computer.   If not, investigate and fix

                  the issues that have nothing to do with your clip or
      OpenSim.  Don't forget to look for muted output and

                  unplugged cables.

      

            (2)  See if other people can hear your clips in OpenSim.  If
      they can, and you can't, the problem is not with the 

                  clips but with some other settings on your own
      preferences.

      

            (3)  Confirm you can hear sounds in general and other clips
      that other people can hear in OpenSim.  If not,

                  you still have preferences set wrong, probably, on
      both computers.

      

            (4)  If you and everyone still think your clips are too
      soft,   try boosting their volume in Audacity and 

                   re-uploading them.   

      

             (5)  If none of that works,  post again here.  I'll be
      curious to know where the problems were.

      

      

      On 11/8/12 12:24 AM, xristina volioti wrote:

    
    
      
      
        

        Hi,
        

        
        I would like to inform you that I have a problem with the
          sound. We have updated the
            server to the latest version and I'm running the OpenSim to
            2 laptops (one is XP 32-bit and the other Windows 7 64-bit).
             In the XP I can only play sounds locally or in world and not at all
            in a scipt. From the other laptop I cannot hear at all the
            sounds that I have uploaded. I have exactly the same
            preferences in Audio and Video. I'm new in OpenSim, so I would
            like to ask you what
            I have to do in order to fix it and hear properly every
            sound.
        

          
        Thank you in advance.
        

          
        With regards,
        Christina
      
      

      
      

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