Audio Stream Muting

I'd like to see something like Mute, but have it act upon the source of audio streams.

Optimally, we could open a dialog, see the last 10 or so audio streams, who owns them, and the name of the object. From there, we could selectively mute the object from sending us any further audio streams, or if we're particularly unhappy with someone, we could mute all audio streams by objects owned by that user.

Additionally, we need the ability to completely flush our audio stream queue. Sometimes I can get 50+ incoming audio streams. Even teleporting doesn't reset the queue, which doesn't make sense becuase we probably aren't going to hear the resulting sounds anyway since we've teleported somewhere else.

I understand that one of LL's biggest expenses is bandwidth. I'd be willing to bet they could reduce their bandwidth use by a double-digit percentage by implementing selective audio stream muting and audio queue flushing, and make a lot of happy people in the process.

Yes Yes Yes
I want this feature!

Yes! Yes!!

I strongly endorse this product and/or service.

Agreed, this feature is definitly needed, I've had 200+ incoming audio streams at one point, AND my audio was muted.

YES! PLEASE! rt click + mute this object audio...

I'm game for that.

agreed! Some newbies have a way of arriving in DW and blaring rap over both sims. I really don't wanna listen sometimes. Pretty Please can I turn it off? .

Zana

Oh, but those Simpsons audio emotes are so entertaining. The 100th time you've heard them they lose none of their poignancy or humor. And personally I like hearing the latest top 40 with skips every 10 seconds - adds a dynanism to otherwise conventional meter.

Yes, please!

It can be pretty annoying to sit at an event and hear the same duck quack for 45 minutes, or have the white noise of your neighbor's waterfall on all the time.

Hiya Green =)

I originally suggested a list of the 10 most recent, because sometimes you don't know where it's coming from.

Unfortunately there's no SOUND type for sensors yet =P

Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us have this feature!!!! I would give my AV's right arm and practically my RL right arm to have the ability to do this. Would ease my living/working in Federal as well as all the great reason others mention above!!

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It would also be nice to not hear audio from sims you aren't in. I can see how at Stage 4 its nice for show and tells (maybe) but in the other sims its not necessary.

I support this product and/or service.

At last, a way to shut up those damned squeaky mice infesting Cordova of late.

Nothing like flying by someones' badly written jukebox and gettin 600+ incoming audio streams

seriously... i think there really needs to be a direct control for the number of incoming streams you will 'accept' (not unlike many web-browsers or file sharing utilities have for the number of active connections to maintain)..

aka i can set say 'three' and then it will only let up to three audio streams queue, anything else new incoming will simply be discarded until one of those three is finished and the next one can begin.

either that or a TOTALLY discrete network slider for 'audio' where we could set 2k/s or somethin nice'n tiny

I'll add my voice to this. In my experience, about half the crashes I experience come from the SL client not handling corrupted audio streams properly.

This is a great idea. Sometimes I mouse over the speaker and see something like 70 streams!!! Ludicrous!!!

I support this...
aw just add my vote!

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This is going to become my number 1 feature request that I support... I will make it my pet. I will not give up on it.

I wonder how many pages back the Lidens read in this forum? I know they are super busy and not able to respond to most threads. And honestly I would not expect them to respond to many of the suggestion threads at all. But wouldn't it be nice to see a Sticky list from the Lindens that has a list of Features they have read about here and what their status may be?

Like:

XXX suggestion - under discussion
XXX suggestion - top priority
XXX suggestion - under discussion
XXX suggestion - probably will never happen
XXX suggestion - working on for next patch

Or something like that? I for one would love to see a list like that just to know if what we have suggested has at least been read and noted.

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hehe jus don forget

eltee Statosky suggestion - DAMNIT why don't you go pester ATI for a change and leave us alone! its not like *WE* were dumb enough to buy one of those cards

Yes. I support this product and/or service.

this idea has been posted and discussed several times since november and always gets a resounding applause from the audience. i wonder if any linden is ever going to say anything about it?

This is why I like the Town Halls. At least we get some kinda feedback to our questions or suggestions there. I wish we had them more often, or if a similar response were given to all of the posts in the Feature Suggestions forum.

Even if it's usually just "Thanks for the idea, we'll bring it up in our next meeting", at least you know someone on the LL team has read it =)

PS: I'd hope they would take the time to gather up all the feature suggestions and at least bring up some of them in meetings, so that the Lindens who don't have time to read through the forums can get a chance to hear about them so that the ideas may be considered.