Patricia Calvert asks:
Whenever I have more than one window open I can’t stand to hear overlapping sound coming from one or more of the other open windows. Is there a way to stop that? Can you tell me of a way to isolate the sound to the window I am viewing—other than switching to one window after another, hunting down the source of the sound, and then muting it (if possible)?
5 Answers -
Vincent Lu
October 4, 2012Assuming you are using Windows Vista or 7. There is volume mixer in the task where you can simply mute the applications.
Thanks for your reply, and yes, I’ve pretty much always been aware of that feature. I was hoping to find a way to mute all the open windows except for the one I am viewing at any given time, and the Chrome app suggestion may be as close as I’m going to get at this point in time.
October 4, 2012HLJonnalagadda
October 4, 2012MuteTab, a Chrome extension is what you need. It isolates which tab the sound is coming from, and there is a setting to mute all sounds from other tabs.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mutetab/nmkbaaijgpppbokgnhhoakihofedkgcc
Wow thanks a lot
October 4, 2012You’re welcome!
October 4, 2012I don’t use Chrome exclusively due to the high demands it often puts on my CPU, but when I do use it I’m definitely going to give this a try. Thank you!
October 4, 2012You’re welcome! I did find a Firefox extension that offers similar functionality, but it is a global mute button and does not have the functionality to mute just one tab, like MuteTab does. The addon is Muter. Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/muter/?src=cb-dl-updated
October 4, 2012hamad3914
October 4, 2012You can mute other applications volumes in the Mixer down in the bottom right of the task bar (only in Windows 7 and Vista)
James Franklin
October 4, 2012Are you talking about when you’re using a browser, or just using different applications in general?
Dave Rimmer
October 5, 2012Found this not sure if this is what you want as I have never tried it – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/muter/
Hope this helps.