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Q: On OS Mavericks, When i Face Time it lowers the system volume. Like iTunes and the adjustment sounds for volume up, and down, and such. Is there a setting, or preference to stop it from lowering every other volume?

I have been using mavericks for some time now, and i like the upgrade. It's a fantastic improvement to an operating system.

 

However i've noticed that when i go onto facetime, it dulls EVERY OTHER SOUND.

 

Like when i want to watch a video on youtube, it doesn't play it on full volume

Or listen to something on itunes, and control the volume myself. It lowers that too.

 

It lowers everything except the facetime conversation

 

Is there a setting or ANYTHING to turn that off?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 8:56 PM

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  • by DontKnowI,

    DontKnowI DontKnowI May 15, 2014 2:53 AM in response to JaysITunes645
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    May 15, 2014 2:53 AM in response to JaysITunes645

    this **** blows mane. ALL I WANNA DO IS LISTEN TO MY MUSIC IN PEICE

  • by d00dbro,

    d00dbro d00dbro May 19, 2014 9:53 AM in response to joaoMata
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    May 19, 2014 9:53 AM in response to joaoMata

    Ew no. The solution is to downgrade to Mountain Lion because it's way faster and less buggy anyway. And it actually has color labels and "open in new Finder window"

  • by dreamingdigital,

    dreamingdigital dreamingdigital May 24, 2014 3:28 AM in response to Rick Beerendonk
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    May 24, 2014 3:28 AM in response to Rick Beerendonk

    This fixed it for me. Going to system preferences / Sound and selecting internal speakers instead of Boom fixed the problem. I also quit the boom application altogether, this is what seemed to be causing the problem

  • by henrycc265,

    henrycc265 henrycc265 May 26, 2014 8:01 PM in response to jasonbroccoli
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    May 26, 2014 8:01 PM in response to jasonbroccoli

    yea ... i will have to facetime her on ipad and anything else...

    since the volum thing happens , if one of us wanna watch a movie / gaming , we will have to hang up the call ...

    we used to keep facetime connected for like a week ... continuously

  • by neekmarie,

    neekmarie neekmarie Jul 12, 2014 1:59 AM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Jul 12, 2014 1:59 AM in response to JaysITunes645

    ANY UPDATE????? hack...something... I'm so frustrated. What a terrible idea Apple had.

  • by kalakov,

    kalakov kalakov Aug 27, 2014 4:16 AM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Aug 27, 2014 4:16 AM in response to JaysITunes645

    Go to voiceover utility -> select Sound -> uncheck Audio Ducking. Enjoy

  • by joshfrompittsburgh,

    joshfrompittsburgh joshfrompittsburgh Jan 26, 2015 9:15 PM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Jan 26, 2015 9:15 PM in response to JaysITunes645

    I am not sure if anyone ever answered this post but I recently have spent some time trying to figure the answer out and believe I can help...

     

    1. Spotlight- Search for "Voiceover Utility"

    2. Go to sound

    3. Uncheck "Enable audio ducking"

  • by duckyfromducktown,

    duckyfromducktown duckyfromducktown Apr 3, 2015 5:40 AM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Apr 3, 2015 5:40 AM in response to JaysITunes645

    I think i may have found a fix for this

     

    ok so go to system preferences

    then go to accessbility

    then click on voice over

    then click on voice over utility

    from here a new window will pop up

    Now, in the new window, click on the sound icon in the left menu bar

    there are like three lines of options

    right now the "enable audio ducking" button is check marked. uncheckmark that.

    maybe this will help

     

    update: i originally posted this w/o looking at the most recent comments, which have the same fix. sorry!

  • by AlecZ64,

    AlecZ64 AlecZ64 May 31, 2015 11:31 AM in response to duckyfromducktown
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    May 31, 2015 11:31 AM in response to duckyfromducktown

    Disabling audio ducking isn't having any effect for me. Do I have to reboot or something?

  • by dung_h2,

    dung_h2 dung_h2 Jun 19, 2015 8:53 PM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Jun 19, 2015 8:53 PM in response to JaysITunes645

    Turned off Audio ducking, but issue still insists. Any suggestion ?

  • by AlecZ64,

    AlecZ64 AlecZ64 Jun 21, 2015 12:25 PM in response to henrycc265
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    Jun 21, 2015 12:25 PM in response to henrycc265

    henrycc265 wrote:

     

    yea ... i will have to facetime her on ipad and anything else...

    since the volum thing happens , if one of us wanna watch a movie / gaming , we will have to hang up the call ...

    we used to keep facetime connected for like a week ... continuously

    Haha, maybe Apple did this so you couldn't leave FaceTime connected for weeks.

  • by tisBalakae,

    tisBalakae tisBalakae Aug 23, 2015 9:01 PM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Aug 23, 2015 9:01 PM in response to JaysITunes645

    The most-likely thing that would work is a terminal code. My guess is that Apple may have one posted somewhere. I'll be on the search for it

  • by david.liu.sg,

    david.liu.sg david.liu.sg Jan 11, 2016 12:43 AM in response to tisBalakae
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    Jan 11, 2016 12:43 AM in response to tisBalakae

    The following Terminal code works for me, as posted by @comex in Twitter.

     

    Each time before a FaceTime call, first launch the FaceTime app. Then open Terminal and past the following line, and press enter.

     

    printf "p *(char*)(void(*)())AudioDeviceDuck=0xc3\nq" | lldb -n FaceTime


    Then make the call.


  • by AlecZ64,

    AlecZ64 AlecZ64 Jan 11, 2016 5:01 PM in response to david.liu.sg
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    Jan 11, 2016 5:01 PM in response to david.liu.sg

    Awesome. Finally a real solution. Never thought I'd see advice from Comex on the Apple Discussions!

    david.liu.sg wrote:

     

    The following Terminal code works for me, as posted by @comex in Twitter.

     

    Each time before a FaceTime call, first launch the FaceTime app. Then open Terminal and past the following line, and press enter.

     

    printf "p *(char*)(void(*)())AudioDeviceDuck=0xc3\nq" | lldb -n FaceTime


    Then make the call.


  • by sebtastik,

    sebtastik sebtastik Jan 15, 2016 1:20 AM in response to JaysITunes645
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    Jan 15, 2016 1:20 AM in response to JaysITunes645

    I took comex's solution and plugged it into an applescript application set to run in the background (no dock icon, menubar or anything). I'm no serious hacker, but it does the job.
    This is the code I put together from examples I found around the web:

    repeat

      tell application "System Events" to set theCount to the count of (processes whose name is "Facetime")

      if theCount = 0 then

      do shell script "sleep 1"

     

      else

     

      do shell script "printf \"p *(char*)(void(*)())AudioDeviceDuck=0xc3\\nq\" | lldb -n FaceTime"

      repeat

      do shell script "sleep 1"

      tell application "System Events" to set theCount to the count of (processes whose name is "Facetime")

      if theCount = 0 then

      exit repeat

      end if

      end repeat

     

      end if

    end repeat

    end

    If some expert can approve this code I'd be really happy.
    So far it has had less than 5 calls for testing, both outgoing and incoming.

    My main worry is it polls for Facetime processes every second, I figured that's the least it takes to answer an incoming call: the command needs to run every time facetime is opened but doesn't work mid call, so you have to catch that moment when it's still ringing...
    Activity monitor says it uses 0.2% CPU, isn't that too much for something this basic?

    You can download the app and drop it into your login items then do a logout/login or start it manually, and it should just work. (The download button is at the top of the page).

    If you don't trust me, since I'm just any guy on the internet, you can parse the app yourself from my code using applescript editor's export function, to have it running in the background, once you get your .app executable: right click it, show package contents, open the info.plist file, and add two lines with

    <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>

      <true/>

    just under the first <dict> tag (should be around line 4), Save and you're done.

     

    Hope this helps someone, I've always learned a lot from this forum, happy to give back

     

    -Seb

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