skorchev Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 It will be great if there is an option for sound volume. It's too noisy now when you listen music in the same time you are in BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 It will be great if there is an option for sound volume. It's too noisy now when you listen music in the same time you are in BBO.Your sound on BBO comes from sound bites residing on your own computer. You only need to change volumen for them. I use 2 computers. The one with BBO I connect to the other one. The other one is connected to amplifier. So it is not so difficult to change everything according to your private preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 It will be great if there is an option for sound volume. It's too noisy now when you listen music in the same time you are in BBO.Your sound on BBO comes from sound bites residing on your own computer. You only need to change volumen for them. I use 2 computers. The one with BBO I connect to the other one. The other one is connected to amplifier. So it is not so difficult to change everything according to your private preferences. There are a variety of options, none of which is perfect. This is probably more (or less) than you were looking for, but here they are: 1) Probably the easiest thing that would handle most of your issues would be to turn off all of BBO's sounds that you don't explicitly appreciate. Each sound has an on/off switch under the BBO options menu -> sounds. Personally, I have all except PM turned off, but I usually even disable that. This is how I handle things. Beyond that, as noted, all the sounds reside on your computer as .wav files, the volume of which can only be easily changed by modifying your master volume, which will unfortunately also turn down your music. 2) There are programs you can find to download which will allow you to set different master volumes for each program you run. I have never used any of these so I can't recommend any as quality, and I expect you'll probably have to pay US$ 19.95 to get anything decent. 3) Another option would be to find appropriately quiet sounds on your own (ones you even like!) and replace the sounds that exist in your C:\bridge base online\netsounds folder. 4) There is one best option, but it's by far the most complicated: find a program which allows you to modify the built-in volume of a .WAV file and edit the bbo sounds with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skorchev Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 OK, tnx, I appreciate your advices, but I can find them in any softwer forum. I just suggest that implementing of sound control option will be a good thing. Maybe I can make this things and change the volume of sound for bbo, but I doubt one 60-70 yo lady (which is the main target in BBO) can make it. Almost every program with sound has control option, I doubt it is so difficult to be created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I agree with skorchev. The suggested workarounds would be appropriate if someone wanted to adjust the volumes of specific sounds -- I wouldn't expect BBO to have individual volume controls on each sound. But it doesn't seem like asking much for there to be a master volume control for all the BBO sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 OK, tnx, I appreciate your advices, but I can find them in any softwer forum. I just suggest that implementing of sound control option will be a good thing. Maybe I can make this things and change the volume of sound for bbo, but I doubt one 60-70 yo lady (which is the main target in BBO) can make it. Almost every program with sound has control option, I doubt it is so difficult to be created.You seems not to understand the point Stefan. The point is BBO is a completely silent web-site. Fred has repeated that several times. You are not the first person asking for that feature. I dont know who the main target for BBO is but I am pretty sure 60-70 years old ladies are welcome as anybody else. Those 2 persons I know of have no problems of this kind. I know Fred has a good heart for young bridge players. Even the creation of BBO-Flash has many reasons one of those Fred mentioned was to ease entry to BBO for ordinary persons without computer skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 OK, tnx, I appreciate your advices, but I can find them in any softwer forum. I just suggest that implementing of sound control option will be a good thing. Maybe I can make this things and change the volume of sound for bbo, but I doubt one 60-70 yo lady (which is the main target in BBO) can make it. Almost every program with sound has control option, I doubt it is so difficult to be created. the 60-70 year old lady also generally doesn't have the problem, i bet. she isn't listening to music on her computer while playing. so she can turn her computer volume down and her cd player volume up, if it's an issue. my suggested workarounds were just given as "in the mean time" ideas, which will serve both "in the mean time" and longer if your desire is never fulfilled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedyG Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 the 60-70 year old lady also generally doesn't have the problem, i bet. she isn't listening to music on her computer while playing. so she can turn her computer volume down and her cd player volume up, if it's an issue. i hate to disappoint you, but 60-70 year old ladies DO listen to music, including when they play. you dont stop enjoying music with age! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 the 60-70 year old lady also generally doesn't have the problem, i bet. she isn't listening to music on her computer while playing. so she can turn her computer volume down and her cd player volume up, if it's an issue. i hate to disappoint you, but 60-70 year old ladies DO listen to music, including when they play. you dont stop enjoying music with age! He didn't say they don't listen to music, he said they don't listen to it ON THEIR COMPUTERs. They probably still use their Victrolas. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 the 60-70 year old lady also generally doesn't have the problem, i bet. she isn't listening to music on her computer while playing. so she can turn her computer volume down and her cd player volume up, if it's an issue. i hate to disappoint you, but 60-70 year old ladies DO listen to music, including when they play. you dont stop enjoying music with age! No disappointment here. If the older generations weren't still listening to music, us younger ones probably wouldn't have any appreciation for Sinatra et al. I just doubt too many people 60+ have an MP3 collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skorchev Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 I thought not to write here anymore, coz I said whatever I had to say, but there are too much people trying to explain to ME what I want to say. :) So, you play/watch in BBO and in the same time you listen music, for example. You can set how loud to be the music from your music program and to hear better the sounds from BBO. But when you want to listen the music and want to hear SOFTLY the sounds from BBO, you can't do that. Yes, I know I can stop some of them, but I don't want that. Also I know I can install some program to control the mastervolume of BBO. But I just suggested that such implement inside BBO will be a good option, coz "the 60-70 yo ladies" are not so educated in internet downloading, installing and working with such programs (sorry if underestimate someone, no offence intended). Regards, Stefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 I think the problem is not that people, including I, missed your point. I think the problem is that you missed mine. I don't have any strong sense of which suggestions get implemented, or how quickly. Or how related they have to be to actual play issues. The further you get from the primary things BBO is concerned about offering, the longer it's going to take for these suggestions to get implemented, I would think. And sound is most likely NOT a primary issue. Therefore, my suggestion was "here are a variety of quick fix options for your issue, because at the very least it's going to be a while before what you want happens." So this way, if Fred sees your suggestion and thinks "wow, that's a great idea, I should have thought of it," well, it still might take two years for it to get put in. But meanwhile, you won't have to deal with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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