How many people have sound enabled on their computers?

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by iamyoohoo • 18 years ago

6 4 18 years ago

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Can someone point me to a study or stat on how many people have sound enabled on their computers.

We need to do some analysis for an app we're building which depends on sound being enabled.

tstegart• 18 years ago

No at work, Yes at home.

RobGR• 18 years ago

Some of my computers have sound, my main one does.

I have not seen a general statistic, however.

Perhaps you could derive the number you need, or a lower bound on it, from the number of Skype users, or the number of WinAMP installs ?

If you need a much more specific statistic, such as the number of users of your web site that have sound installed and set up to play through the browser, perhaps there is a way to measure that directly. For example, you could pick a sacrificial group of users, and expose them to the most awful sound you can come with -- chalk screeches and cats through band saws and "Hey everybody I'm jacking to child porn!" and animal yelps and human moaning and stuff like that. Then you could compare how many of them never come back, to a control group that was not assaulted.

quoderat• 18 years ago

Disabled always, at work and at home, unless I specifically want to play or watch something.

Too many apps/pages that attempt to scream at me without my permission.

Also why I run Linux.

xiaoma• 18 years ago

Hundreds of millions to billions, depending on how "computer"is defined.

How many people have sound enabled on their computers?

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