If you don't want to hear the startup sound, just mute your speakers before you shut down or restart. Done.
Yes, it does. See my post just a few before yours.Doesn't muting the system volume also mute the startup sound? I'm quite sure it does. I rarely shut my Mac down these days, though, so I forget.
Yes, it does. See my post just a few before yours.
Also, "sleep" is just a bandaid fix. Some of us are mobile and really need to squeeze every minute out of the battery between long periods so a shutdown is best.
All this talk about remembering to simply "mute" the volume is nonsense. People forget and the user shouldn't be forced to remember it.
Also, "sleep" is just a bandaid fix. Some of us are mobile and really need to squeeze every minute out of the battery between long periods so a shutdown is best.
The truth is Apple's unique startup "chime" is a long time branding component that goes back as far as I can remember. They intentionally want this thing going off so as many people as possible hear it.
Still doesn't mean I have to put up with it though. There's nothing more annoying than sitting at meeting listening to a late arrival start up his macbook while somebody's talking. It's worse than forgetting to mute a cell phone.
One of the first things I did in Lion after discovering the old sound-muting preference pane that worked in SL to be useless was to apply the terminal hack a few posts up the line. Works just fine. In fact, the volume stays muted after a reboot until I touch the volume key "once" which is exactly what I want. (Sometimes a website will unknowingly start playing a video or sounds which is annoying when around people).
If my sound is off or at a specific volume, that's how it starts up.
It won't work at the time of boot up. You have to mute before you shut down or restart.I just tried holding the mute key while pushing the power button and still got the chime (I don't care, it doesn't bother me, but just saying.)