Douglas Jarquin

Better volume control on Mac OS X

2008 April 4th
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Better volume control

The other day I stumbled upon a very useful keyboard shortcut for Mac OS X Leopard. If you hit ‘option’ + ’shift’ + ‘volume down’ or ‘volume up’ you will get a more sensitive volume control. Four times more sensitive to be exact. This is useful if you have very sensitive speakers that need a smaller adjustment to get to that perfect volume level.

Updates

April 18, 2008: Changed F4 and F5 to Volume Down and Volume Up. Thanks Evgeny.

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“Better volume control on Mac OS X”
Leo Mancini

Do you know if there are any corresponding shortcuts in Tiger?


Douglas

@Leo Mancini: Sorry, I actually did not even think that this could be Leopard only. If anyone knows how to do this on OS X 10.4 Tiger please post a comment and I will add it to the article.


Evgeny

Actually it’s not F4/F5, it’s VolUp/VolDown buttons. Not everyone is on a MacBook. And I actually have one of those semi-transparent white keyboards connected to my MacBookPro … so F4/F5 did not work until I tried just using the volume buttons (which are separate on a full keyboard)




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