How to mute speaker when headphone plugged in?
I have "regular" analog speakers connected to the back of my Powermac G5. When I try to plug a headphone in the front panel, the speakers continued playing! I was under the impression that the speakers are muted when headphones are plugged in?
I looked in System Preferences > Sound > Output and regardless of which output device I pick, sound still comes up from BOTH speaker and headphone.
This is the first time I've actually tried using the front panel headphone jack. What is going on? Thanks.
I looked in System Preferences > Sound > Output and regardless of which output device I pick, sound still comes up from BOTH speaker and headphone.
This is the first time I've actually tried using the front panel headphone jack. What is going on? Thanks.
Comments
Originally posted by ipodandimac
ya this is definitly the dumbest piece of engineering on the G5.
You mean this is normal?
Originally posted by drumsticks
You mean this is normal?
well i have the same problem
I think it is great that the main speakers don't turn off when you use the headphone jack. My setup has a power button on my main speakers (very common) so I can choose to turn them off if I need to use headphones in private. At least I have a choice to use them or not. I don't care how good your headphones are, you can have a subwoofer hooked up to the back while using the headphone port in the front for fuller sound.
My headphones are not great, it is dirt cheap in fact. I plugged the headphones in for the first time and assumed that the speakers were muted. Some time later, my friend walked by and commented that I had good music on. I was like, WTF? And so I discovered that the main speakers were still left on
My speaker on/off switch is on the subwoofer, which is tucked away quite nicely. I can adjust the speaker volume from the front speaker, so, I can do the workaround, but I agree with ipodandimac that this is a silly engineering design...
Galen
Freaky things, but I love my Macs.
Originally posted by Galen
Is this a hardware or a software issue?
My guess is software, but only over certain hardware. It seems to work properly on my friend's TiBook with similar software configurations...
If the headphone jack is empty at startup, and you subsequently plug in headphones, you get your ears blasted because the volume remains at the high speaker level, and in fact, when headphones are connected, the volume cannot be adjusted at all--not even the little menu bar adjuster.
I've learned to live with it, since the internal silver-dollar ibook speaker is such shit in the 1st place, but since everyone's bitching about this topic, I figgered why not?
--B