Sound scripting not working anymore?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I’ve got a very strange problem. I have scripts that USED to work that now no longer work. I don’t know if something got broken in the 10.4.9 update or what’s going on. The scripts were ones that set volume and muted/unmuted the sound.

If I try:

set volume output volume 50

It replys:

Can't make current appliction into type small real

If I try the (old and deprecated):

set volume 3

It works.

And, if I try to mute the sound with:

set volume with output muted

I get:

Can't make current appliction into type small real

The script:

get volume settings

returns:

{output volume:43, input volume:missing value, alert volume:75, output muted:false}

So I tried getting the current setting and then using output volume along with the muted phrase:

set myVolume to get volume settings
set outputVol to output volume of myVolume
set volume output volume outputVol with output muted

I again get:

Can't make current appliction into type small real

Uh, what’s up?

#2

Hi Kevin,

this is very strange. Regrettably I have no solution, but
on my G5 with 10.4.9 all your snippets work normally

#3

Stefan,

Apparently something was messed up. But I logged out and back in and it works now. How ODD!

(addendum: No it doesn’t. I tried the “mute off” script and it worked, but then I got the System Prefs Sound panel out and was watching it to see if the other scripts work and now they’re all broken again. STRANGE.)

#4

All your snippets work as they should on mm, Kevin with the output volume slider snapping to the new position as I run the script. If I were you, I’d restart and try again, then failing that, I’d toss the pref file for sound.

#5

Restarting had no effect. I looked in my Prefs folder but don’t see anything re: Sound. What do I need to trash to get this working again?

#6

Mine is in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.soundpref.plist. Looks like this:

#7

OK, I see the problem - I don’t HAVE a com.apple.soundprefs.plist file. And changing settings in System Prefs doesn’t create one.

I’ll try checking permissions, maybe that will help.

#8

UPDATE: Apparently it was something in my startup items. I killed everything non-Apple and now it’s working. I’ll have to see what caused the problem.

#9

Hopefully, using add half back, see if problem recurs, add half of what’s left, etc - a binary search.