Chat Volume Control – Managing Alerts
Now that you’ve created lots of group chats you may find that you can’t respond to every message that’s posted in the chat. We’ve made it easy to turn off the volume on chats by disabling alerts.
If you don’t want to get an alert when there is some activity in a chat session you can turn off all alerts for this chat session by typing ”/alertsoff” in the text box and hit enter. You can also try the “/alertson sometext” command in the chat window. It’s useful sometimes to set “/alertson yourname” so you’re only alerted to messages in the chat when someone mentions you by name.
No-one else will see this message so they won’t know that you have turned off alerts. For a full list of text commands enter ”/help” in the text box.
Let me tell you guys what happens. You post something, and we notice the RSS feed has been updated. We coming rushing to the page ready to download Skype 2.x for Mac, and find it’s just some filler post. We go back to our work disappointed. Keep making these posts, but just be aware, only a tiny minority of Mac users care about them until we’re running a feature-parity version of Skype.
little news in that, i think that many people had tried “/help” out of the blue.
it would be nice if skype 2 (whenever it comes) sported a decent irc-style layout for text chats, because the current one is annoying. try pasting a conversation into a text editor and be delighted at how it gets almost impossible to understand who said what (a great way to lose lots of time when posting excerpts of a chat to a blog)…
This is a Skype for Mac blog not a Skype v2x blog. Is it so difficult to understand?
When there was no blog we complained. We are THE Mac community we are entitled to our blog!
When they started posting we complained. This is a “Skype for Mac” blog not a generic Mac product blog
Underpinning all this in every comments section we have the pleasure –sic – of the “new version” mantra.
I click on comments to learn further tricks and from other people experiences not to be trolled about the same subject day in and day out – there are plenty of threads for this on the forum,
So please give it rest and stop annoying people with sweeping sentences as obviously you are not aware how many users have no clue how to use certain features – ref. the forum – and how beneficial these posts can be.
I think both gd-jac and Shane have valid points.
Yes, the constant “Why tell us about this when we really want video” gets old really fast. On the other hand, there are a lot of us (myself included) who purely check the blog for version/feature updates. Every update gives a momentary lift, followed by a low when we find out it’s something relatively minor.
Besides, Shane’s point was well-put. The other posts will be of use to many people, but anything not updating about video will inevitably being comments about the lack of feature-parity. Yes those comments can get predictable and tiresome, but they probably won’t stop until the Mac version is equal to the Windows one. Sad, but true.
I appreciate the tip – unfortunately, I saw “volume control” and thought “AH! They fixed the auto gain control problem in the mac client!!” No. @#%@#%
I have fed this back as a bug report with no reply. With certain USB mics, skype conversations cause the mics gain control or input volume slider in system preferences to hop up to the loudest setting. This makes it impossible to use some of the better USB condenser mics like the Samson C01U or the BLUE Snowball mic for podcasting with a co-host on skype.
I *know* I keep posting this, but I have never gotten a response in the forum, never got a response on the bug report submission, and for all I know, no one at Skype knows or acknowledges this.
Please give us the ability to turn OFF auto gain control on the mac version of Skype. It’s highly required.
Thanks.
Scott
^ I’m also having the same problem as Scott, albeit not with a USB mic, but the MacBook Pro’s internal microphone! This is really annoying and makes it hard to carry on conversations, because I end up getting heard very softly when I infact want me voice to be as loud as possible–in my case, the Input Volume slides down automatically. It’s awful!
For incorrect gain control either way, turning AGC off is the answer, but as you’ve observed, there is no checkbox for that in the Mac client (at least as of 2.5). There is a fix (I was suffering from the same problem as torley_linden) posted for Windows which I documented for OS X here:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=57766
HTH
Marcus
Thank you, Marcus. It works perfectly. I have a MacBook and when using the built-in microphone I always had a problem with the mic volume turning itself up and deafening people as I talk. Thanks again!