Known Issues

  1. SonicMood will fall silent if it has been running continuously for over 24 hours (even if paused for some or all of that time), due to a bug in Quicktime. The only solution to this problem at present is to enable "Reset sound every 24 hours", a checkbox on the "General" page of the Preferences window. The setting is enabled by default. It will quickly perform a shutdown and restart of the "sound engine" (without stopping SonicMood's execution) every 24 hours, requiring no user intervention. You can also just quit and restart SonicMood and sound will resume. (The silence is NOT permanent)
  2. You cannot play 8 bit soundfiles on an Intel-based Mac. SonicMood checks for 8 bit files if you're running on an Intel-based Mac and will not add them to the soundfiles list. 8 bit files work fine on PPC-based Macs so they will show up in the soundfiles list there. Playing an 8 bit soundfile with SonicMood on an Intel-based Mac will cause 16 bit soundfiles to sound "noisy". This can only be corrected by quitting and restarting SonicMood. All soundfiles provided with SonicMood and on the sonicmood.com website are 16 bit and pose no problem.
  3. Users registering for the first time with v4.8.8 will get an “alphanumeric” code. This code will not work with previous versions of SonicMood. To use an earlier version, email us for another code that’s compatible.
  4. If you use the System Preference application "Smart Scroll", when you scroll in a SonicMood window and then click the window's title bar, the window will "jump" down a little. It’s also a little harder to use the mouse wheel to change slider settings (they tend to “scroll” also). You can prevent this by adding SonicMood to the list on Smart Scroll's "Misc." page and un-checking the "Wheel" checkbox.
  5. There is a bug in the PowerPC version of OS X v10.4.10 (fix = update to 10.4.11) that causes the initial copying of Scene files to the new location to fail.
  6. Note that PPC-based Macs using the Apple "Mighty Mouse" need to scroll horizontally instead of vertically when using the shift-key with the mouse-wheel to change the volume of all the Moods for the Instruments and Soundfiles sliders on the SonicMood window.