Comments on: No AppleScript ‘Mute’?

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:13:47 +0000

My two scripts - which work in Lion just fine - are: .script-night.app:

tell application "System Events"
    if exists (process "ScreenSaverEngine") then
        tell application "System Events" to set volume with output muted
    end if
end tell

.script-morning.app:

tell application "System Events" to set volume without output muted

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:36:26 +0000

FYI, under Lion the above script no longer works but simply modifying it to what is below does:

tell application "System Events" tell process "System Preferences" click checkbox "Mute" of window "Sound" end tell end tell

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By: WillGonz

WillGonz — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:59:56 +0000

Awesome PMcM. I used that for an automator script to mute the sound before a task and then unmute it.

Thanks

By: PMcM

PMcM — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:51:36 +0000

How about osascript -e 'set volume output muted true' and osascript -e 'set volume output muted false'?

By: Samuel Linde

Samuel Linde — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:35:30 +0000

I misread you as well, Erik. Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh. I thought your cron job were running a .scpt file via osascript.

Bo's solution is of course the way to go in your case.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:03:11 +0000

Yeah, that'll work. I read his answer quickly and thought he'd just wrapped the two set volume commands inside an if statement. My bad.

By: Bo

Bo — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:41:07 +0000

Based on what Samuel said, what's wrong with just using tell application "System Events" to set volume with output muted at 10pm and tell application "System Events" to set volume without output muted at 7am? He obviously found the setting you were looking for; you just have to package it up correctly.

By: Samuel Linde

Samuel Linde — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:10:36 +0000

Really worth what? 6 lines of code? Are you running Tiger? This might work with Panther as well, haven't checked though.

set myVolume to get volume settings
if output muted of myVolume is false then
    set volume with output muted
else
    set volume without output muted
end if

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:51:59 +0000

As I've said, Samuel, this is in a cron job via osascript. Any more than one line is "too much," particularly when I spend 95% of my time at "3.5" volume. I'm merely talking about the lack of a good "mute" option in other situations when it may be handy without reverting to work-arounds.