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July 12, 2023

tetoculus Excellent! that worked (needed to upgrade to Win11 first...).

MetaStoreHelp It is not noise, it is supposed to be background "music" that cannot be turned off. So, it is basically a badly designed feature - it is nice for first 15seconds, but then you would like to turn it off - and there is no settings to do that... And it is in Link Dashboard (homescreen when you are connected to a PC)

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CrazySane
Inspiring
January 11, 2020
Hi,
If you can't turn it off you could just turn down the volume.

Failing that, you could stab the speakers with a screwdriver. That works for me every time.
    Anonymous
    January 16, 2020
    I remouved the Rift sprekers but the Rift sofware send the sound in my wirell headset.  I try to turn it off, then mute in the Oculus software but as soon as I touch the volome on my head set then the stupid sound start all over agan.  I feel to sell the Rift to get someting else
    TomCgcmfc
    Honored Contributor
    January 16, 2020
    From your Oculus home press the small left controller menu button.  Go to Preferences/audio and adjust or mute background music and maybe also sound effects.  This works for me with 12.1.
    i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
      Anonymous
      January 18, 2020
      I found that the sound comes from "Oculus home" Even whan all muted, each time I open Oculus app, I have to go in Oculus home, then the anoying sound stop.  Is theire any way to simply not lais Oculus home?
        TomCgcmfc
        Honored Contributor
        January 18, 2020

        raymond.abel.333 said:

        I found that the sound comes from "Oculus home" Even whan all muted, each time I open Oculus app, I have to go in Oculus home, then the anoying sound stop.  Is theire any way to simply not lais Oculus home?

        Ya, go to your Oculus desktop app settings tab.  At the bottom disable start in oculus home slider.  Next time you startup you will be homeless.
        i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
        ethanforns
        New Participant
        March 28, 2023

        whoever put that horrible background chimes sound in should be tried.

        I have found no way to silence the chimes unless I mute all volume.

        I am forced to use oculus home.

        META sucks. As soon as my headset dies, I will NEVER purchase an oculus or META piece of crap again.

         

        KevinStartup
        Participant
        April 28, 2023

        If you open Volume Mixer in Windows, you can turn the volume right down on the Oculus App - seems to make it go away.  It is dumb of Meta to have put this on, no one wants it and there appears to be no option to remove it in the app.

          tetoculus
          New Participant
          May 8, 2023

          I haven't tried this, but boy Meta is really running the whole experience for its users. Over something so stupid. Why wouldn't they make that an obvious on and off switch in settings. So weird and annoying! 

          Exius86
          Participant
          May 8, 2023

          Yeah, it's outrageous that they can't do a simple switch in the settings to solve tha problem that annoys so many users... Anyway I found my way to solve it, but it requires a bit of audio editing. 
          There are two audio files here:
          Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-dash\dash\assets\raw\audio_dash\Assets

          "mus_void_ambisonic.wav" and "GNux_Background_Loop_v2_ambix_1.wav" - just open them with any audio editor, turn down the volume to 0 and save - no more annoying background music.

          In similar way you can also change this bright background in Oculus Link - edit "grid_plane_006.dds" texture here: Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-dash\dash\assets\raw\textures\environment\the_void

          I prefer a plain black background without any noise or music. I hope that they add this option to settings one day, because I have to repeat all these manipulations after every update.

            tetoculus
            New Participant
            May 9, 2023

            Thank you so much man! Sharing this now!

            hkmn
            New Participant
            October 28, 2023

            Cannot adjust background sound in home enironment Quest 3 it seems.

            This is an issue when listening to music from browser or other 2D apps like the store.

            The ambient music from home environment will still be there in background.

            Turning down the main audio will of course affect all sources.

            Searching in settings it seems there are no controls for this.

            Any tips on how to remove or lower the sound and music of just the home environment?

            Also is there a way to bring audio or video from 2D apps overlayed into games in Quest 3?

              fiocco10
              Participant
              October 29, 2023

              Yes this noise is absolutely horrible... meta, stop doing stupid and useless things

              What would be really useful, for example, is a value that appears when we move a cursor to know precisely our setting in %

              The1stDarkLordMorgoth
              Honored Contributor
              December 4, 2023

              Hey everyone! I saw that you were mentioning hearing background noise whenever you're using your headset. I know this can be distracting when you want to enjoy videos and the audio in games. I'd be happy to bring this up with our engineering team so they can look into this issue. Can you also let me know what software version you're currently running on your headset? It should be v59 or v60 if you're part of the PTC program. This can help the teams look into this issue further.

              Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The force shall free me.
              thorvalhalla
              thorvalhalla
              Participant
              December 4, 2023

              Hi, I think has been on all software versions. Just to clarify, this is not really "noise", but instead it is some kind of ambient music - which I assume is there on purpose. The pain is that you cannot turn it off to listen sounds from your PC, when you are in dash-mode.

              The1stDarkLordMorgoth
              Honored Contributor
              December 4, 2023

              I appreciate you letting me know about that. I will go ahead and let our engineering team know what you've shared, and I'll let you know what they've said as soon as I can.

              Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The force shall free me.
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