How to mute e-mail sound when mp3's are playing?

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You didn't tell us what program you are using for email, and that makes a
difference.


If you are using Outlook Express, select Tools, Options, and then
click the General tab.

Unclick "play sound when new messages arrive."


Good luck !!


--James--

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"fan" wrote ...
>I recently got a new WinXP sytem with an SB Audigy 2 ZS
> Audio (D8CO) sound card. When I listen to mp3's playing
> on WinAmp and e-mail arrives, the e-mail notification sound
> can be heard right through the music.
>
> How can I change it so that the e-mail sound is not audible
> when mp3's are playing back?

You can disable that specific sound as James suggested, or
you can disable *all* the sounds with the "Sounds and Audio
devices Properties" You can change the Sound Scheme to
"No Sounds".

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On Sat, 07 May 2005 11:10:59 GMT, fan <fan@fan.com> wrote:

>I recently got a new WinXP sytem with an SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio (D8CO)
>sound card. When I listen to mp3's playing on WinAmp and e-mail
>arrives, the e-mail notification sound can be heard right through the
>music.
>
>How can I change it so that the e-mail sound is not audible when mp3's
>are playing back?
>


I don't know of an automatic way to mute this sound only when audio is
playing. It can, of course, be switched off manually in your mail
program. Or globally in Control Panel/Sounds.

As I find the system sounds uniformly annoying, I have set up a Sounds
profile with all events set to "none" except the Startup and Shutdown
sounds. I find these useful just to check my sound system is working.