[TheGreatButcher]

What are the commands to raise and to lower the sound level by one notch?

From the Standard Additions Dictionary:

set volume number -- the volume level, from 0 (silent) to 7 (full volume)

[TheGreatButcher]

sorry that doesn't help any

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by TheGreatButcher:
What are the commands to raise and to lower the sound level by one notch?

The correct syntax =

set volume X

where X is whatever value you want between 0 (min) and 7 (max).

Or are you trying to look at the CURRENT sound value and increase from there? This would be a bit more complicated to script.

Speed

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by TheGreatButcher:
What are the commands to raise and to lower the sound level by one notch?

Caught my curiosity so i did a little investigation... here's the solution to raising/lowering the sound volume.

1) Download the "FadeAway" freeware scripting addition from Scriptweb
http://www.osaxen.com/home.taf?id=fadeaway

2) Drop it into your System Folder's Scripting Additions folder.

3) Cut and past the following script into Script Editor and save as a app, assign it to your favorite Function key and you've got a one-stop volume up script (change the + sign to a - sign for volume down.

That's it!

(FYI: the +/- 32 is due to the fact that the MacOS lists sound volumes from 0 ->255, but the standard volume adjustment only increments 7 steps (255/7 = 32). If you want a finer volume control just type in whatever value you'd like.

Best of luck
Speed

Here's the script...

set currentVolume to GetLeftChannelVolume

SetLeftChannelVolume (currentVolume + 32)
SetRightChannelVolume (currentVolume + 32)