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15 Responses to "No AppleScript ‘Mute’?"

1. | Reply Samuel Linde
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 12:22pm #
   

   Couldn't you use the "get volume settings" and store it in a variable?

2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 12:49pm #
   

   For a cron job? It's really not worth that.

3. | Reply Rich
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 1:53pm #
   

   I couldn't find a "mute" command, but this works if you have System Prefs running:

   tell application "System Events"

   tell process "System Preferences"

   click checkbox "Mute" of first group of window "Sound"

   end tell

   end tell

4. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 4:51pm #
   

   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.

5. | Reply Samuel Linde
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 4:10pm #
   

   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

1. Syah
   Posted 13 Jan 2014 at 5:14am #
   

   Your reply was in 2005. Now is 2014. I am running on Mavericks, and you just posted what I needed the most! Thank you! I have been trying to get the mute flags like mad! haha.

2. Cow
   Posted 24 Feb 2015 at 1:25pm #
   

   Thanks for this, works in Mavericks great. Needed this because the old xGestures 'toggle mute' function stopped working correctly and now I just have it run this applescript instead. Thank you for the great script tip.

6. | Reply Bo
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 5:41pm #
   

   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.

7. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 26 Jun 2005 at 6:03pm #
   

   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.

8. | Reply Samuel Linde
   Posted 27 Jun 2005 at 1:35am #
   

   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.

9. | Reply PMcM
   Posted 13 Jul 2005 at 10:51am #
   

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

10. | Reply WillGonz
    Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 9:59pm #
    

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

    Thanks

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12. | Reply Glen
    Posted 30 Sep 2011 at 7:36am #
    

    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

13. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
    Posted 02 Oct 2011 at 1:13pm #
    

    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