Disable sound for one application?
 

I know this must be possible but has anyone actually written something that does this?

The idiots at pokerroom have changed their software so you get an annoying beep every time it's your turn. Unfortunately I already have the sound disabled in options, this particualr sound doesn't honour the setting.

Hopefully someone knows of a little program to strip sound from a particular application?

Re: Disable sound for one application?
 

Try deleting the sound file.

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If the sounds are .wav files you can prolly just replace that sound with a blank one.

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Good idea but already tried and unfortunately it doesn't work.

The program recognizes the sounds are missing and downloads them when you first run. Deleting them after it has run is ineffective, I assume they have already been loaded into memory, since they happily play despite not being there.

Damn them!

Re: Disable sound for one application?
 

Don't delete the file, just edit it with a program like Adobe Audition (not sure of a free one) and delete the wave. Or just create a file named (sound).wav in a text editor and save it to the directory overwriting the other sound file.

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If the sounds are .wav files you can prolly just replace that sound with a blank one.

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Very good plan. Sadly it doesn't work. The program obviously has some sort of checksum system and recognises that the file isn't the correct one, then downloads the new and much more annoying one into memory.

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Don't delete the file, just edit it with a program like Adobe Audition (not sure of a free one) and delete the wave. Or just create a file named (sound).wav in a text editor and save it to the directory overwriting the other sound file.

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Sadly it doesn't work. See my previous reply [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: Disable sound for one application?
 

mmmmh, modify it and place it in read only?

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Thanks for the suggestion but this one doesn't work either. The auto updater fails then the program doesn't run. Argh!

I've tried editing the wav file as well, reducing the volume to something inaudible and various other things, all with no luck.

The checksum system they have on loading might just be as simple as checking the file size of each of these wav files, but I haven't yet figured out how to create a silent wav file of exactly the same size as the one they provide. It's probably an almost impossible task anyway, since I expect if the checksum was based on file size, it would be an exact to the byte check.

Anyone with further suggestions?

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Anyone with further suggestions?

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Actually, it is only the Pokerroom download software that has this awful new beep. The java version honors the "disable sound" option, so this is the workaround for now.

Not having player notes is a bind though.