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 ... 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? more
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May 15, 2014 2:53 AM in response to JaysITunes645by DontKnowI,this **** blows mane. ALL I WANNA DO IS LISTEN TO MY MUSIC IN PEICE
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May 19, 2014 9:53 AM in response to joaoMataby d00dbro,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"
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May 24, 2014 3:28 AM in response to Rick Beerendonkby dreamingdigital,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
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May 26, 2014 8:01 PM in response to jasonbroccoliby henrycc265,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
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Jul 12, 2014 1:59 AM in response to JaysITunes645by neekmarie,ANY UPDATE????? hack...something... I'm so frustrated. What a terrible idea Apple had.
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Aug 27, 2014 4:16 AM in response to JaysITunes645by kalakov,Go to voiceover utility -> select Sound -> uncheck Audio Ducking. Enjoy
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Jan 26, 2015 9:15 PM in response to JaysITunes645by joshfrompittsburgh,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"
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Apr 3, 2015 5:40 AM in response to JaysITunes645by duckyfromducktown,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!
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May 31, 2015 11:31 AM in response to duckyfromducktownby AlecZ64,Disabling audio ducking isn't having any effect for me. Do I have to reboot or something?
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Jun 19, 2015 8:53 PM in response to JaysITunes645by dung_h2,Turned off Audio ducking, but issue still insists. Any suggestion ?
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Jun 21, 2015 12:25 PM in response to henrycc265by AlecZ64,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.
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Aug 23, 2015 9:01 PM in response to JaysITunes645by tisBalakae,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
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Jan 11, 2016 12:43 AM in response to tisBalakaeby david.liu.sg,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.
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Jan 11, 2016 5:01 PM in response to david.liu.sgby AlecZ64,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.
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Jan 15, 2016 1:20 AM in response to JaysITunes645by sebtastik,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