beep tone when highlighting search title.

[hwheeler43]

Under the Levels tab you will find something called "PC Beep". It can be turned off. This PC Beep is the culprit.

I only had it [the beep] showing up when I clicked on a song from the Search window as well. This is a Vista thing, not Hoster.

Once I turned off this PC Beep I am able to add tracks from the search window with no more beep.

Attached is a Disable Beep document. I have not tested it. Maybe Admin can. It might work on more machines than the fix I found on mine.

ADMIN NOTE: This didn't work for XXYzz as seen below. Is there on true work-around for the Vista bug? Can MTU find something related to using dialog boxes (the Search method) that can "disable" beeps?

[xxyzz]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

Under the levels tab you will find something called "PC Beep". It can be turned off. This PC Beep is the culprit. I only had it showing up when I clicked on a song from the search window as well. This is a Vista thing, not Hoster. Once I turned off this PC Beep I am able to add tracks from the search window with no more beep. Attached is a Disable Beep document. I have not tested it, Maybe Admin can. It might work on more machines than the fix I found on mine.

I tried this too it did not work even after re-booting and double checking to make sure that the ding was still in disable mode.

I found this article too but I could not get this to work either or I am doing it wrong............

One of the most annoying things in Vista is that once you change your system sounds, applications will play the default sound (typically "Windows Ding.wav") every time you select an item in a listview control. Frankly, this was driving me to distraction and so I spent some time digging around and thought I would share here, in case anyone else was annoyed. My apoligies if this has already been posted elsewhere.

It turns out, it looks there's a bug in the [Vista] Control Panel applet where you set your sound preferences. Even if you have the "Select" sound set to nothing, it's creating an entry (what is probably a null string) in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect\.Current.

Because it's not actually a sound file, it reverts to the default sound. And, because the folks at Microsoft apparently want to make this as annoying as possible, if you disable the default sound, then it decides to do you the "favor" of beeping using your system speaker. Everyone on the Vista team should be forced to wear headphones and listen to an endless loop of "Windows Ding.wav" until a fix is published for this. I'm just saying.

In the meantime, here's a temporary fix in the form of a registry file. Note that you'll need to run this after every time you change your system sounds through the control panel, or the Ding from Hell™ will return:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect]
@=""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect\.current]
@=""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect\.Default]
@=""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect\.Modified]
@=""

ADMIN NOTE: We have a new proposal here. MTU has a pause in our development schedule and will take a look at this ourselves. Everyone with Vista.. please try this and post your findings.