How do I turn the volume of my email notification down?

[Interesting Ian]

My email notification is too loud. It's much louder for instance than when I'm playing music from my hard drive. So is there a way of turning the volume down but without at the same time turning the volume down for other things like my mp3 player?

[DreadNiK]

For Windows:

Go into control panel.

Go into Sounds and Audio Devices

Go to sounds. Find the 'new mail notification' sound and change it. To just reduce the volume I suggest you use something like creative media source and just re-record the sound at a lower volume. Or you could change the sound completely.

[Interesting Ian]

For Windows:

Go into control panel.

Go into Sounds and Audio Devices

Go to sounds. Find the 'new mail notification' sound and change it. To just reduce the volume I suggest you use something like creative media source and just re-record the sound at a lower volume. Or you could change the sound completely.

I don't want to change it as I like it! This is utterly absurd! I can't turn the damn volume down??? :eek:

How ***** is this bloody XP??? :eek:

[Jeff Corey]

If you wish, I can send you a PM every hour or so. This will allow you test any solution suggested to you.
Try it, it's fun and empirical.
(Not suggested for anyone under the influence of wine or stronger spirits)

[DreadNiK]

Like I said, re-record the sound file at a lower volume. If you ask really really nicely, I might do it for you. Or someone might have already done it and posted different volume sounds online. Or download something like goldwave and do it yourself.

You're welcome.

[Lisa Simpson]

Start menu-->Accesories-->Entertainment-->Sound recorder

Find and open the offending file. Pull down "Effects" menu. Click "Decrease Volume". Listen to loudness. Repeat as needed. Save file.

[Interesting Ian]

Start menu-->Accesories-->Entertainment-->Sound recorder

Find and open the offending file. Pull down "Effects" menu. Click "Decrease Volume". Listen to loudness. Repeat as needed. Save file.

Hi, thanks. Yeah that's worked fine!

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

How ***** is this bloody XP??? :eek:
...
Hi, thanks. Yeah that's worked fine!
Apparantly not quite as ***** as you first thought.

~~ Paul

[Interesting Ian]

Apparantly not quite as ***** as you first thought.

~~ Paul

Eh? It's not apparant to me. It doesn't have an independent volume control for the email volume.

[Lothian]

My email notification is too loud.That is just a facile wholly unsubstantiated assertion. You know where you can stick your logical empiricism.

But that's not my problem. If you go around asserting something it too loud, then you have the option of providing reasons or evidence to support their assertions. You can't provide evidence?? Fine! But you have to at least provide reasons! You can't just assert things like X is too loud and then provide no justification whatsoever! At least you shouldn't if you desire that other people, such as myself, to not consider you to be a hopeless incorrigible idiot.

You need to consult a dictionary to find out what the word "loud" means. Saying it is too loud is an assertion which has zero evidence to suppose it is true, and has zero reasons to suppose it is true. To assert something as being definitely true but without any reason or any evidence to support their assertion is, quite frankly, rank stupidity.

The so called laws of acoustics are simply descriptions of the way sounds operate. Thus reality cannot violate physical laws because they simply describe what happens in reality. If other worlds influence our one, or if consciousness influences the world, then that's just the way reality is. To say that the notification is too loud demonstrates a profound ignorance of what so-called acoustic "laws" are. Laws are just descriptions of reality. Reality has no obligation to constrain itself to act in accordance with what modern western science dictates.

Jesus Christ! You are so incredibly stupid! I just cannot believe that human beings can be sooo stupid!

I just simply cannot believe it!

Absolutely incredible

[DreadNiK]

Eh? It's not apparant to me. It doesn't have an independent volume control for the email volume.

I'm not one to leap to the defence of Microsoft OSs but c'mon, I think they had more important issues to resolve before they could work on making every little detail customizable INSTANTLY to your satisfaction.

[logical muse]

The new Intel Duo Core Macs have 419 separate volume controls, one for each notification event, classified into 37 groups, each with its own master volume control. Options exist for linking groups and creating meta-master volume controls.

In addition, you can specify pan values to have notifications for different events sent to either the right or left channel, or both, in whatever proportion you choose. Effects may be added, such as echo.

For greater control, I suggest you explore the envelope tool, which lets you create via a pleasing gui widget your own ADSR envelope for each notification event or group.

[chasing23]

Why hasn't someone just said to turn down the speaker volume?

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

The new Intel Duo Core Macs have 419 separate volume controls, one for each notification event, classified into 37 groups, each with its own master volume control. Options exist for linking groups and creating meta-master volume controls.

In addition, you can specify pan values to have notifications for different events sent to either the right or left channel, or both, in whatever proportion you choose. Effects may be added, such as echo.
I would never suggest that we've gotten to the point where the OS has sufficient features and now the developers are just looking for crap to do.

~~ Paul

[DreadNiK]

Why hasn't someone just said to turn down the speaker volume?

Because we read the question properly...

[Johnny Pixels]

That is just a facile wholly unsubstantiated assertion. You know where you can stick your logical empiricism.

But that's not my problem. If you go around asserting something it too loud, then you have the option of providing reasons or evidence to support their assertions. You can't provide evidence?? Fine! But you have to at least provide reasons! You can't just assert things like X is too loud and then provide no justification whatsoever! At least you shouldn't if you desire that other people, such as myself, to not consider you to be a hopeless incorrigible idiot.

You need to consult a dictionary to find out what the word "loud" means. Saying it is too loud is an assertion which has zero evidence to suppose it is true, and has zero reasons to suppose it is true. To assert something as being definitely true but without any reason or any evidence to support their assertion is, quite frankly, rank stupidity.

The so called laws of acoustics are simply descriptions of the way sounds operate. Thus reality cannot violate physical laws because they simply describe what happens in reality. If other worlds influence our one, or if consciousness influences the world, then that's just the way reality is. To say that the notification is too loud demonstrates a profound ignorance of what so-called acoustic "laws" are. Laws are just descriptions of reality. Reality has no obligation to constrain itself to act in accordance with what modern western science dictates.

Jesus Christ! You are so incredibly stupid! I just cannot believe that human beings can be sooo stupid!

I just simply cannot believe it!

Absolutely incredible

I award you the full 10 points