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Aug132007
The Single Most Annoying Thing About Mac OS X
Monday, August 13, 2007 at 9:24AM
Someone posed the above question on the Ars Technica Mac forum recently. I have very few long-standing annoyances with Mac OS X - most of the things that annoy other people don't really frustrate me all that much.
The one part of the system that immediately sprang to mind when I read the question, though, was the Sound preference pane and, more generally, the whole process of dealing with external sound devices in Mac OS X.
I can't even explain to you why it's so annoying, but I seem to have this constant battle between where my audio output goes and where the system sounds go. And why, for heaven's sake, do the keyboard volume controls always seem to be operating on some sound output that's not currently being used?
And why, when you plug in USB headphones, doesn't the output switch to those headphones? One would bet that "I've plugged these in, so I want to use them now" is a pretty decent heuristic for switching the output channel.
Don't even get me started on input.
The one part of the system that immediately sprang to mind when I read the question, though, was the Sound preference pane and, more generally, the whole process of dealing with external sound devices in Mac OS X.
I can't even explain to you why it's so annoying, but I seem to have this constant battle between where my audio output goes and where the system sounds go. And why, for heaven's sake, do the keyboard volume controls always seem to be operating on some sound output that's not currently being used?
And why, when you plug in USB headphones, doesn't the output switch to those headphones? One would bet that "I've plugged these in, so I want to use them now" is a pretty decent heuristic for switching the output channel.
Don't even get me started on input.
Reader Comments (4)
Try SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba. It was one of the first things I installed on my new iMac. And it's freeware.
I actually thought it was nice to have split audio, i tend to have music on from the main output, but if I'm doing any convferencing, it's still nice to have stuff on in the background.
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