Strange "bloop" sound

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Strange "bloop" sound

Today my MBP early 2011 (with Lion) started reproduce a strange "bloop" sound, like the sound of an air bubble rising when you blow down in a straw 😮

This sound occurs even if sound is mute.

Even with no Safari pages opened this sound occurred ( you can see safari processes in the list below but it happened even with this application closed and no plug-ins running).

No active application on my Dock.

I have no disk space problems or memory problems, i have 350+ GB free on HD and 2+GB free RAM.

My MBP is completely cold, no problems about warming or processes CPU-intensive.

I tried to kill some user processes and tried to reboot my MBP but this still happens.

This sound "randomly" play every of 4-5 minutes.

This is what i have in Activity Monitor:

IDP Nome processo Utente CPU Mem. reale Mem. virtuale

0 kernel_task root 3,3 527,3 MB 5,01 GB

1 launchd root 0,0 2,2 MB 2,40 GB

10 kextd root 0,0 5,6 MB 2,38 GB

11 UserEventAgent root 0,0 7,1 MB 2,42 GB

12 notifyd root 0,0 1,3 MB 2,35 GB

13 fseventsd root 0,4 3,9 MB 2,40 GB

14 diskarbitrationd root 0,0 1,9 MB 2,39 GB

16 ntpd root 0,0 1,4 MB 2,32 GB

18 warmd nobody 0,0 3,0 MB 2,39 GB

21 special_file_handler root 0,3 1,9 MB 2,37 GB

22 syslogd root 0,0 1,0 MB 2,40 GB

24 stackshot root 0,0 1,3 MB 2,37 GB

25 securityd root 0,0 7,4 MB 2,41 GB

27 revisiond root 0,3 2,7 MB 2,39 GB

28 powerd root 0,0 2,6 MB 2,41 GB

31 opendirectoryd root 0,0 11,5 MB 2,41 GB

33 mtmfs root 0,0 6,0 MB 2,42 GB

34 mtmd root 7,1 5,5 MB 2,41 GB

35 mds root 5,9 65,1 MB 2,76 GB

36 mDNSResponder _mdnsrespo 0,0 3,4 MB 2,40 GB

38 loginwindow francesco 0,0 19,4 MB 2,46 GB

40 KernelEventAgent root 0,0 1,1 MB 2,35 GB

41 InternetSharing root 0,0 2,7 MB 2,40 GB

43 hidd root 0,0 2,0 MB 2,38 GB

45 dynamic_pager root 0,0 772 KB 2,32 GB

49 configd root 0,0 5,0 MB 2,42 GB

52 autofsd root 0,0 2,0 MB 2,38 GB

53 applepushserviced root 0,0 7,3 MB 2,41 GB

54 sh root 0,0 968 KB 2,32 GB

55 distnoted root 0,0 2,0 MB 2,39 GB

56 coreservicesd root 0,0 22,9 MB 2,43 GB

81 netbiosd _netbios 0,0 2,6 MB 2,40 GB

131 WindowServer _windowser 5,0 49,6 MB 3,10 GB

191 prl_naptd root 0,0 7,9 MB 2,41 GB

203 prl_disp_service root 0,1 20,4 MB 2,46 GB

207 CVMServer root 0,0 1,1 MB 2,33 GB

225 logind root 0,0 1,8 MB 2,37 GB

236 launchd francesco 0,0 1,6 MB 2,40 GB

249 UserEventAgent francesco 0,0 10,7 MB 2,41 GB

254 pboard francesco 0,0 1.020 KB 2,32 GB

257 Dock francesco 0,0 22,7 MB 2,44 GB

258 SystemUIServer francesco 2,0 31,8 MB 2,52 GB

259 Finder francesco 0,1 18,7 MB 2,46 GB

263 fontd francesco 0,0 5,3 MB 2,42 GB

269 com.apple.dock.extra francesco 0,0 11,4 MB 2,44 GB

271 warmd_agent francesco 0,0 1,8 MB 2,36 GB

278 imagent francesco 0,0 8,2 MB 2,41 GB

283 AirPort Base Station Agen francesco 0,0 2,0 MB 2,37 GB

308 launchd _spotlight 0,0 880 KB 2,36 GB

310 mdworker _spotlight 0,0 17,7 MB 2,42 GB

311 distnoted _spotlight 0,0 1,4 MB 2,37 GB

314 mdworker francesco 0,0 15,4 MB 2,42 GB

318 filecoordinationd root 0,0 2,0 MB 2,38 GB

320 cookied francesco 0,0 3,6 MB 2,39 GB

335 CVMCompiler francesco 0,0 2,1 MB 590,3 MB

438 coreaudiod _coreaudio 0,0 4,9 MB 2,40 GB

442 AppleSpell.service francesco 0,0 4,0 MB 2,40 GB

456 backupd root 36,7 66,0 MB 2,46 GB

457 mdwrite francesco 0,0 3,7 MB 2,41 GB

460 Monitoraggio Attività francesco 11,1 38,5 MB 2,52 GB

464 activitymonitord root 0,5 1,3 MB 2,33 GB

467 distnoted francesco 0,0 1,8 MB 2,39 GB

469 ubd francesco 0,0 13,9 MB 2,40 GB

471 ocspd root 0,0 3,2 MB 2,37 GB

487 Safari francesco 0,0 64,1 MB 3,56 GB

489 Safari Contenuto web francesco 0,8 117,4 MB 3,56 GB

507 usbmuxd _usbmuxd 0,0 2,5 MB 2,37 GB

510 xpchelper francesco 0,0 4,8 MB 2,36 GB

520 Flash Player (Safari plug francesco 0,8 20,2 MB 750,0 MB

525 cupsd root 0,0 3,2 MB 2,36 GB

526 mdworker francesco 3,8 23,8 MB 2,42 GB

527 CVMCompiler francesco 0,0 15,2 MB 2,34 GB

Any suggestion?

Regards

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 3, 2011 7:52 PM

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Answer 1

nooralvi

Level 1

4 points

Dec 30, 2016 8:55 AM in response to FrAPallA

I had this problem for quite long and was searching around to find where the sound is coming from. I was suspicious that if there is a virus or something. Finally, it was the Skype making the 'Bloop' sound for the 'contact becomes available' and 'contact becomes unavailable'.

Open Skype, go to preferences > Notifications > from the event drop down menu select 'contact becomes available' and uncheck the play sound check box. Repeat it for the ''contact becomes unavailable'. You will have no more random sounds.

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Answer 2

HPDoor

Level 1

4 points

Sep 3, 2012 5:24 AM in response to FrAPallA

I think my Bloop Bloop came from Skype: Preference - Notifications - Play sound when contact becomes available.

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Answer 3

Nov 3, 2011 8:17 PM in response to FrAPallA

Does it make the sound for a certain number of times. 2 bloops, 3, or 4 etc? Read this article on Apple Beep Codes and see if this is what you are experiencing. http://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/Apple_Computer_Beep_Codes

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Answer 4

FrAPallA Author

Level 1

8 points

Nov 3, 2011 11:56 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

i heard 1 "bloop" each time it's played. It seems none of the sounds in the list you posted is the one played by my MBP. It's like an air bubble; it's really strange but it's not a normal tone of errors of any type. This occurs only after the system is completely booted. Can't understand why this sound is played even if i mute speakers.

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Answer 5

PHL07

Level 1

49 points

Sep 23, 2012 7:42 AM in response to FrAPallA

For me it was a bunch of iMessages (in the message app) catching up since I hadn't logged into my mac in a while. I didn't have the app launched, but could see the numbers increasing on the icon in my dock.

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Answer 6

FrAPallA Author

Level 1

8 points

Nov 16, 2011 5:09 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

It seems it stopped randomly and played no more. i still dunno where it came from 😕 but i don't hear it anymore 🙂

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Answer 7

Nov 4, 2011 12:01 AM in response to FrAPallA

It's still under Apples 1 year limited warranty. Take advantage of that and take it to Apple or an AASP and let them hear it. They are the experts afterall 🙂

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