April 27, 2004
Mute
I love walking around There and listening to the music people are playing; it adds tremendously to the feeling of "place" when you can walk up to someone's zone and hear the same music they do.
Sometimes, though, particularly in crowded areas where you don't want to pay the bandwidth and lag costs, it can be nice to turn radios off. Unfortunately, the obvious solution (turn down the volume knob, or the There music volume slider) doesn't actually disconnect you from the radio station in the current release (V2.06). Walking up to an individual radio and muting it manually does disconnect you from the station, but doesn't work very well in an area with multiple speakers.
Although this issue is apparently going to be addressed in a future release of There (V2.10), I've decided to make my personal loudspeaker muting program available for download to anyone who would like to try it. This program works just like walking up to every loudspeaker you can see and pressing mute on each one.
Posted by Ian at April 27, 2004 9:40 AM
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