noises coming from neighbor's place

[miabella001]

Why can I hear my neighbor's baby crying constantly from my residence which is 2 homes away?  I found her residence and tried to ask her to reduce the noise and she would not respond to my request.

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi miabella,

The rate at which a sound falls off in SL is related to the size of the prim emitting the sound. It's possible the baby prim is quite large, so you hear it from a great distance. Fortunately, you can block sound from prims. To do that you must first find them. Go to "World->Show->Beacons" and check "Sound Sources". You should then see any sound emitting prims highlighted with yellow lines. Find the baby, right click it and select "Manage->Block". That should give you some peace and quiet. Uncheck the beacon to return to normal viewing.

If the sound is coming from your neighbor's avatar (because she's wearing a baby attachment), right-click her avatar and again, select "Manage->Block". This will silence the baby, but will also prevent the person from IMing you, make them invisible, and remove them from your public chat as well.

If only we could do this on long airplane flights.

Good luck!

[Lindal Kidd]

Maddy is right on, as usual.  Although you can mute the crying baby for yourself, this won't affect things for anyone who's visiting you.  You could also send another message to the baby's owner and remind her that she can limit sounds to her parcel, to keep from annoying the neighbors.  That is done in the Sound tab of the About Land window.  (You can try doing this to your own parcel too...I think it will keep out sounds from neighboring parcels as well as limiting sounds produced on your own parcel to that parcel.)