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Who_Murdered_Democracy - 10 May 2007 06:49 GMT

I wanted to assign a different sound to the event of receiving an email. As
the present one supplied by Windows hardly draws your attention to it.

I was delighted to see such a large choice of wav files in the sound event
menu. However, if i am to choose the best one, i would like to hear a fair
few of them. I've tried right-clicking at various stages and places within
the section, but i can't get to discover a way to hear the various sounds.

The only route i can see is to assign a sound to the email notification and
wait until i am present when an email comes in so i can hear it. In reality
this would take a ridiculously long time.

So, please, does anyone know of anywhere, or way, i can get to listen to
them in order to choose the most appropiate one. I have Googled away for
quite a while without success.

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Leonard Grey - 10 May 2007 08:27 GMT

Two easy ways:

1. Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds tab > Sounds
section > use the drop-down box and try 'em out until you find one you like.

2. Open the media player you have chosen to be the default for .wav
files and play each sound until you find one you like. Assign that sound
as described above.

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> I wanted to assign a different sound to the event of receiving an email. As
> the present one supplied by Windows hardly draws your attention to it.
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> them in order to choose the most appropiate one. I have Googled away for
> quite a while without success.

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Who_Murdered_Democracy - 10 May 2007 11:36 GMT

Thanks for responding, but....

Regarding (1)
As mentioned in my original post i was able to access the list of the files.
The problem is i can't get to hear them before assigning them to an event.

'I was delighted to see such a large choice of wav files in the sound event
menu. However, if i am to choose the best one, i would like to hear a fair
few of them. I've tried right-clicking at various stages and places within
the section, but i can't get to discover a way to hear the various sounds'

Regarding(2)
Once i've opened my media player, where do i access the wav files?. I've
tried looking in various folders once i've gone to 'file open'. I've looked
in C drive, Windows, Applications and many, many others. But i can't access
the list that one gets in the sound event menu.

I remember reading in a topic on here that one can right-click the wav
files. However, it does not work when i try it.

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> Two easy ways:
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Tom Willett - 10 May 2007 14:16 GMT

Click on the sound file to highlight it. Then, click on the little arrow
button to preview it.

| Thanks for responding, but....
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| > Leonard Grey
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Who_Murdered_Democracy - 10 May 2007 21:05 GMT

Thank you so much. That is much appreciated, even though it leaves
shame-faced in embarrassment. I simply didn't ever take the arrow into my
vision. It's only just now when i went to click on it, as you suggested, that
a balloon appeared instructing me to 'click to hear the sound'.

I think other people will make use of this answer in the future. As,
hopefully, i'm not likely to be the only person to have such an oversight.

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> Click on the sound file to highlight it. Then, click on the little arrow
> button to preview it.

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Leonard Grey - 10 May 2007 14:53 GMT

Your default media player for .wav files, whatever it may be, should
create at least one - and usually more - context menu (right click)
selections. If you have no context menu selections that means you either
have no default player for .wav files, the file association became
corrupted, there is a problem with your media player or there is a
problem with your sound device (card or embedded chip).

For now, to play a .wav file, open any media player then drag and drop a
.wav file onto the interface. If you hear sound, then the problem is
probably the file association. If you hear no sound you probably have a
hardware problem, which may or may not be remedied by reinstalling the
driver.

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> Thanks for responding, but....
>
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> I remember reading in a topic on here that one can right-click the wav
> files. However, it does not work when i try it.

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Who_Murdered_Democracy - 10 May 2007 21:08 GMT

Thanks for the assistance offered. Fortunately, the problem has been solved
above. Also, i'm releived that there is no problem with any of my sound cards
or media players.

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> Your default media player for .wav files, whatever it may be, should
> create at least one - and usually more - context menu (right click)
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> Leonard Grey
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MAP - 11 May 2007 13:22 GMT

You can also download a .wav file from the inernet and just drag and drop it
into the "media" folder to increase your selection.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sound+wavs

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Who_Murdered_Democracy - 11 May 2007 14:55 GMT

At first i thought you had totally missed the point of the topic. However, i
see the benefit of your suggestion, one could use all sorts of sounds.

Even better still, either using my own gruff voice or that of my fair
maiden, one could easily create a .wav file. Following your idea, it just
needs to be dragged into place.

The big advantage of using voice is that one can actually 'say' what the
event is. One can lose track of the remembering the various sounds and what
they refer to.

I may even add a couple of apt expletives to certain 'event' messages.

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> You can also download a .wav file from the inernet and just drag and drop it
> into the "media" folder to increase your selection.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sound+wavs
>
> --
> Mike Pawlak

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MAP - 12 May 2007 13:55 GMT

I really like the first wav. for my shutdown sound.
Enjoy
http://www.ustacould.com/sounds/index.html

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steve7132@yahoo.com - 23 Jul 2007 02:26 GMT

If the original poster of this topic uses AOL, you can use the original aol
new mail wav, you've got mail, so then you don't have to remember what the
mail wav was, it will just say it, you've got mail....

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