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Custom sounds for Mail: why don't they work?
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Hey all -
I've posted about this a few times in the Mac Discussion boards but have yet to get an answer.
I want to use some custom sounds in my Mail app. I dropped in a new wav of some sci-fi voice and added it. When I preview it, it sounds perfect.
However when I actually receive mail, instead of playing the sound, I just hear a very short burst of static or white noise.
Other people on the Mac discussion board seem to have the same issue.
Has anyone resolved this problem? Or does everyone just use the stock sounds and deal with it?
Thanks.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
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what format are the sounds in?
my mail works with custom sounds....wav. files.
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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It's just a regular wav file as well.
I've tried a couple and they all just wind up giving a 1 second static sound as opposed to playing the file.
Very odd. 
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Might be related, when I use .wav files, I get a 'pop' before the sound plays. Converting the same file to an AIFF resolves this. Try converting the files to AIFFs, see if that helps.
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Heyyyy alright!
That was the trick indeed. I wonder what's up with that?
Out of curiosity, what app did you use to convert? A friend gave me a copy of Audacity which did the trick fine.
Seems like the AIFF is a much larger file size than the WAV but maybe that's just the nature of the file type compression.
Thanks for the tip! 
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Quicktime works for me. 
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Originally posted by konakazi:
Out of curiosity, what app did you use to convert?
I use Quicktime Pro. If you have registered Quicktime Pro you can just open in Quicktime player, go to export and pick 'Sound to AIFF'.
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Professional Poster
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odd...my files are wav. files, and play just fine in mail...
still, whatever works!
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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