Mute sound in editor in Unity

Question

Is it possible to mute sound in editor in Unity? I mean not in the game, but in the editor, so that when I am debugging there would be no sound whatsoever.

Answer 1

In the Scene view, you will find a little toggle, near the 2D toggle, at the right of the lightning toggle (with a little sun icon).

Try to uncheck it to mute the sound in the scene.

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Otherwise, in the Game window, you have a toggle called "Mute Audio", between "Maximize on play" and "Stats" toggles, just check it!

If you want this toggle to be turned on each time you start Unity, create a script called EditorAudioManager and put the following script in it.

using UnityEditor;

[InitializeOnLoad]
public class EditorAudioManager
{
    static EditorAudioManager()
    {
        EditorUtility.audioMasterMute = EditorPrefs.GetBool( "AudioMasterMute" );
    }

    [MenuItem( "Edit/Save editor audio preferences" )]
    static void SaveEditorAudioPreferences()
    {
        EditorPrefs.SetBool( "AudioMasterMute", EditorUtility.audioMasterMute );
    }
}

Then, make sure the "Mute Audio" toggle is on, and click on "Edit/Save editor audio preferences" so as to save the toggle state.

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Other possibility :

Mute the sound of the Unity Editor from your computer using the volume mixer. On Windows 10, right click on the speaker icon in the bottom right corner of your screen and click on "Volume mixer".