Mute Audio

12-03-2014, 09:01 AM #1

I love Dolphin Emulator, and I have it on my Macbook Air. It runs fast, and works well. My only complaint is that the audio is choppy on some games, and I sometimes I just want to listen to my own music in the background. Sadly, Dolphin only allows me to turn my audio down to 1%. I don't know if it's just my mac, or what. If it's not, I think it should be a feature.

**Garteal** · 12-03-2014, 09:11 AM #2

A quick Google search got me this. It's really unfortunate that OSX lacks such a basic feature.

**skid** · 12-03-2014, 10:13 AM #3

Changing the audio backend to "No Audio Output" is the equivalent to muting.

**AnyOldName3** · 12-03-2014, 10:26 AM #4

I thought you weren't supposed to do that, as it'd disable any and all DSP processing, including stuff that causes crashes when skipped.

**magumagu** · 12-03-2014, 10:57 AM #5

(12-03-2014, 10:26 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: I thought you weren't supposed to do that, as it'd disable any and all DSP processing, including stuff that causes crashes when skipped.

Should be fine with current dev builds; that issue was fixed with the DSPHLE rewrite.

**JMC47** · 12-03-2014, 11:24 AM #6

Isn't it stupid to only be able to set the volume to 1 and not 0?

12-03-2014, 02:43 PM #7

I think that's an issue with the OS and not with the emulator itself. On PCs you can easily mute programs through the mixer.

12-03-2014, 03:25 PM #8

(12-03-2014, 10:13 AM)skid Wrote: Changing the audio backend to "No Audio Output" is the equivalent to muting.

Thanks!

**degasus** · 12-05-2014, 01:47 AM #9

(12-03-2014, 11:24 AM)JMC47 Wrote: Isn't it stupid to only be able to set the volume to 1 and not 0?

Not really. Usually audio volume is calucalted logarithmic, so the zero isn't possible in this configuration. But we could just made a special case for this one. But iirc, we don't handle this volume internally, so it's the data provided by your audio backend.