Some info on sound from Brad Holden is below. Putting it here for reference.
The sound player for the Mac, afplay, wants a value for the volume between 0 and 1. Eventsounds gives a value between 0 and 100, so even a volume of 1 is maximum. Setting the -pv option on sound play lets you re-scale the output value of afplay. A value of 0.01 for Macs is recommended.
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I do not edit the config.
I have a horrible line in soundplay.py that says basically
if 'macosx' in soundplayer:
cmd.append('-pv')
cmd.append('0.01')
I am hoping to get Will to remake soundplay for the Mac so that this scaling becomes the default.
Some info on sound from Brad Holden is below. Putting it here for reference.
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