Application independent audio/volume

Does anybody know if the volume of the iphone tone can be set by each Application ? ie I'd like the alarm to blast out where as the call ringer to be about medium - hate to say it but cant find an option for this. Other Smart phones do this pretty well and would like my Iphone to do it toooooo maybe I need to make a quiet ring tone tune and a loud ALARM bell tone and select independently ?

thanks - helpful but the Clock alarm is the same as the phone ringer it seems ? why ? but ok thanks very much

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there's nothing really 'driving' the audio volume except the recording itself.
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Make sure you have also unticked sound check in the burn settings dialog you get when you burn a playlist to disc.

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Let it finish? How many years should I wait? iTunes is totally disabled by this "feature". If I stop the Determining, the program freezes and I have to force quit. If I try to select a song while it's doing this, the same. I have un-installed and re-installed and gone back to prior versions and used previous libraries and yada yada ad nauseum. Why is support so poor? My impression is that this application just ties itself in knots that cannot be untangled. I have no videos, no podcasts, no state-of-the-art stuff, but I do a lot of live recording (mp3s and WAV files) and want to archive and manage it in iTunes (what alternative do I have?), and it seems utterly deficient for that task. Whenever I try to play anything on the computer, the audio defaults to iTunes, and that's the end of that. I've tried Audacity, but it's slow and cumbersome and doesn't burn audio cds.
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Assigned account is a feature where you can lockdown the device allowing the user to use only one application. So I am afraid that you could not change computer setting or device setting such as audio volume. But I don’t think that’s a problem, when user
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Audio volume is always maximum at start

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The max OS for a PowerPC processor Mac is Leopard OS 10.5.x. All higher OSs require a Mac with an Intel processor.
Here's the instructions if you have the discs.
Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274?viewlocale=en_US
Changing your administrator password
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh655.html
Here's one method to reset the password without the install disc:
1. boot computer and hold the "apple" key and the "s" key.
2. wait for terminal show
3. release keys
4. type without the quotes: "/sbin/mount -uaw"
5. press enter
6. type without the quotes: "rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
7. press enter
8. type without the quotes: "reboot"
9. press enter
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Also, without the discs, look at Mac OS X Tip - No Password, No Root, No CD? No Problem.
http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2003/06/16.1.shtml
Here is a way to get around not knowing the admin password on Macs.
To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:
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You'll have to buy (for over $100) a Leopard retail install DVD to get back to Leopard.
 Cheers, Tom

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