Shortcut to Sound preferences

Okay, I know how to make a keyboard shortcut for system preferences in general, but it's not much different than clicking it on the dock. I wanted a shortcut to take me directly to the sound preferences, which seems to be too specific of a command. I tried using "Sound" and "Sound Preferences" and neither of those worked. I just wondered if there was another name I'm not thinking of that would make it work. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure there's just no way of doing this.

Just to add to what Limnos said above.
Follow his navigation but rather than making a desktop style short cut just drag the document icon ONTO your dock.
You will see it change appearance from a document style icon to a speaker cone (You need to drop it to the right hand side of the dock, near trash and other folders files).
Now when you click on it you are taken directly to the speaker preference pane rather than the general system preferences window.
This works for all system preferences panels in just the same way.
I find it especially useful to drop the StartupDisk.prefPane here as it gives me one click access to switching to and forth between differing OSes over Bootcamp similar to the tray icon under windows !

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Keyboard Shortcut for Sound System Preferences

Hi everyone -
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts on the Mac is "option + volume up" (or volume down) keys. This automatically opens system preferences and takes you to the sound preferences. I must use this at least a dozen times a day.
I recently got a new (non Apple) keyboard, and while it does have option and volume keys, the above shortcut does not work. Does anyone know what key commands the computer receives to cause the sound preferences to open?
I like to maybe use one of the softkeys on the keyboard to recreate this shortcut. Thanks! I've called Logitech and opened a case with a product specialist at Apple, but I figured I'd try here too.
Thanks!

never knew about this shortcut. pretty useful. I also have to access this pane very often to switch between sound output devices. this got very annoying and I found this freeware
[Sound Source|http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies>
try it out. it's even quicker than using your shortcut.

Shortcut to open Sound Preferences

This happened to me twice, and I still can't figure out what I did: I was changing the sound volume with the buttons on my Powerbook, and I accidentally hit a key (or maybe I clicked the trackpad-button), and suddenly the sound preferences popped open. Does anybody know of this shortcut?
Thanks

Thanks for the feedback. Of further interest is "Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts" at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 and the links at the page's bottom. Good computing.

Why does my internal speakers no longer show up in my sound preferences?

In February, I updated my MBP 15" to 10.7.3. After restarting my system, the internal speakers were no longer listed in my available outputs under my sound preferences. I wasted an hour of my time talking to phone support only to hear the same stuff I had found online to try to troubleshoot the problem. Finally they told me to go to the Genius Bar. I went to my local Apple store where they proceded to look at it for about an hour and in the end told me the way to fix it would be to just wipe the harddrive and reinstall OS X. I couldn't afford to do that at the time due to needing the computer for grad school and chose to wait till after school let out to do this. Now I have wiped the harddrive twice and reinstalled and STILL don't have sound.
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It's a longshot, but you could try this:
Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM

Sound Preferences: switches from Internal Speakers to Digital Out

I've been having this problem recently. I sent the computer off to Apple a few weeks ago and it helped for a while, but no longer.
My computer has a problem with it's sound output jack or something. Without inserting anything into the plug, the Sound will change for "Internal Speakers" to "Digital Out" and to "Built-in Output" in the Sound Preferences Panel.
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Message was edited by: davidszcz

I have a 4 month old macbook and experiencing the same problem. Just realized it after installing itunes 8 and since then having a stuttering audio playback problem too. When i plug my headphones into the audiojack the sound switches from headphones to speakers and back as well as itunes playing tracks in a stop and go mode. I repaired the rights several times, installed quicktime 7.5.5 again, reinstalled itunes 8 and for sure running the latest leopard version 10.5.5.
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I recently had my hard drive replaced by Apple Care due to a crash. I received my MAC and it's running MAC OS 10.4.9.
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My USB Headset shows up twice for both the input and output in the Sound Preferences panel.
If I disconnect it from my hub, one entry disappears from the list but the other one remains.
It works for most things when I select the right one from the list, but I use the speech recognition program iListen and I can't get that program to work no matter which one I choose using the 'Set Up My microphone' menu command.
I have created another user to see if that would fix the problem but that didn't work either.
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I thought those prefs were in the following file, but if another user didn't change it at all then must not be...
Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.GlobalPreferences.(12 digit number).plist
So, I'm gonna guess dragging this file to the Desktop & rebooting...
/Library/Preferences/com.GlobalPreferences.plist

Changing OSX default volume setting to a higher level in sound preferences

When I change the default volume setting to a higher level in sound preferences within OSX, it is back at the lower level at the next listening session the following time I use iTunes on my Mac Mini. Within System Preferences there is a section that lets you "choose a device for sound output" but the only choice I have is "line-out" and under the "port" heading there is only "built-in output"--no other choices are shown. I have external speakers attached which I like to use for listening to music as I work. What is the problem? Why won't the higher volume I set remain? Also, shouldn't more than one choice be shown for sound output?

This sounds like the problem that I'm experiencing and <a href-"http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2694517#2694517">aske d about a couple of days ago. The sound level resets to 50% after shutdown.
I tried setting the levels in Audio MIDI Set Up as suggested above, but that hasn't changed anything.
In answer to B_web, I am running my external speakers through the headphone jack.
So, any other suggestions?

What is the terminal command to open sound preferences in Mac Snow Leopard

Hi
I want to know what is the command to open sound preferences dialog from command prompt.
short key for doing this is option key + F12. But I am looking for somehting I can enter in terminal to open sound preferences.

Get under the hood with Command Line and the Terminal. Unix forum is here for fast answer:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

How to remove sound preference options

how to remove sound preference options

Not that I know of.
Just tell her the X can't be removed.
The customer isn't always right.
Can you think of any window in any other program that doesn't have an X button to it? I can't think of an instance. I can't think of any place besides LabVIEW that can have an X button that can't be clicked.
Is there a reason you do not want them to click the X button? You can use an event structure to catch a Panel Close? event for the VI and discard the event so you can run your own code such as ensuring a clean and orderly shutdown of the VI.

Sound preference issue with Snow Leopard?

I have a late 2009 13" Macbook Pro -
I've been very late in updating from Leopard to Snow Leopard, even though the latter came out a month after I bought my laptop, but this weekend, I finally did.
My mac has the 'red light' problem in the headphone jack and I've been unable to fix it, so I use external USB speakers. However, now that I've updated to Snow Leopard, the sound preferences refuse to keep the USB speakers as the output for sound. I'll open system preferences, select the speakers, but in a few seconds, it automatically just switches back to the internal speakers as the output. It doesn't stay.
I've been searching through forums for help, and came across the instruction to delete the two files in the Audio folder, which hasn't fixed it.
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If you need further clarification, just ask.

Do you know how to check for errors in the logs?
Using System Profiler, take a look on the left and open the logs there...

Can't uncheck 'mute' in sound preferences

Suddendly today there's no sound coming from my computer, not in different browsers, or different forums. Went to Sound Preferences and "mute" is checked. But it won't let me uncheck.

My MBP unexpectedly developed a similar problem.
I ran Tech Tool Pro and it fixed the problem.
Try running Apple's Disk Utility and repair permissions and see if that corrects the problem.

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I use a Tascam US 1800 audio I/O with my Mac Pro, but I have to reset the System Preferences to the US 1800 every time I restart the computer. The computer defaults to Line In and Line Out.
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Does anyone have an idea what may be causing this and how to remedy it?
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The permissions are totally wrong. It looks like someone has intentionally changed them.
First, since I don't know what other damage has been done, you should at the very least back up all data and then run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. That action may fix some (not all) other files with wrong permissions, but it wont fix this one.
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out these instructions.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
sudo chown 202:202 /L*/P*/A*/*.audio.*.plist; sudo chmod -N $_
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. Confirm. You don't need to post the warning. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
Quit Terminal and reboot.

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