Annoying beep

[bugman]

Hi Folks!
I'm new to the forum. I have a VW PB and have a question about the annoying beep you hear after 5 seconds when selecting an artist or album. Is there any way to disable that? I thought I read something about turning that off in one of the other forums but maybe I was being delusional...again!!

[judb]

The beep is in the phatbox.ini file on the PHTSYS partition... you can remove it by editing the file...

find the VW titled sections
like

[VW_Non_Premium6_v4]
(there will be several sections like that for the various VW headunits.. so you'll need to edit them all or the one you are using if you know which head unit you have.)

You'll see stuff like

audioid.0.0=STOP
audioid.0.1=WAIT 0.55
audioid.0.2=TITLE
audioid.0.3=PLAY
audioid.0.4=SYNC
audioid.0.5=WAIT 5
audioid.0.6=STOP
audioid.0.7=/dos/tts/beep3.wav

Remove the 0.7 lines that say beep3.wav and that will stop the beep from playing.

save the file and enjoy!

[underground]

I have the same question about my Audi box.
Problem is there are so many references to audioid.0.7 each under a different header (eg VWAudi_V6_2, VWAudi_V7_1 etc etc.) How can i find out which refers to my Box?
Firmware under PMM says mine is 'Audi Native Brand Stereos. Version. 7.02'

Many thanks

PS....Meant to say that I have a 2005 Audi with (I think) the concert II head-unit

[judb]

just remove all of them and it won't hurt anything.

(make a backup copy of the phatbox.ini first though just in case)

[bugman]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately when I deleted that line it not only got rid of the beep but also stopped the song. I had to select the album in order to restart the PB. I guess I'll just replace the line and live with it...
Thanks again for the idea!

[Firefox]

All you need to do is replace existing beep3.wav with a very short wav file containing silence.
Enjoy!

[catware]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately when I deleted that line it not only got rid of the beep but also stopped the song.

Were there any lines in the section after the 'beep' line? If so they need to be renumbered.

I.e., let's say you have:

audioid.0.5=WAIT 5
audioid.0.6=STOP
audioid.0.7=/dos/tts/beep3.wav
audioid.0.8=PLAY

You can't just remove the line; this won't work:

audioid.0.5=WAIT 5
audioid.0.6=STOP
audioid.0.8=PLAY

Renumbering all subsequent lines needs to be done or it will stop executing commands after the 0.6=STOP command. Here's how this example should look:

audioid.0.5=WAIT 5
audioid.0.6=STOP
audioid.0.7=PLAY

[bugman]

Thanks for telling me something I should have known!! I'll give that a try and let everyone know how it works.
Thanks again!