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ical alarm sounds not alarming enough
Feb 7th, 2010, 3:30pm
 
those tiny inaudible sounds are a bit too minimalist for me; is it possible to add different alarm sound for ical to use?
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Re: ical alarm sounds not alarming enough
Reply #1 - Feb 7th, 2010, 7:57pm
 
things are bad when you have to reply to your own posts..anyway, I found the answer, so here it is if anybody wants to do it.

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"I was getting to know iCal today, and decided to check out the alarm feature. I was disappointed at not being able to use custom sounds for the alarm sounds, when inspiration struck me (okay, a friend told me about it!).

I dragged an AAC file to ~/Library/Sounds and launched iCal. To my horror, the sound that I put in there didn't appear in the pop-up list of alarm sounds. "Okay," I thought, "maybe it's expecting an AIFF file."

Not having an AIFF lying around on my new machine, I decided to rename the AAC file to have a AIFF extension. Magically, the sound appeared in the alarm settings dialog, but I didn't expect it to play. Guess what? It did!"

from MacOSX hints site.
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Re: ical alarm sounds not alarming enough
Reply #2 - Feb 7th, 2010, 8:37pm
 
If you want a more powerful app for alarms you can also check out Awaken, my dad got it in a MacHeist bundle and loves it

http://embraceware.com/awaken/
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Re: ical alarm sounds not alarming enough
Reply #3 - Feb 8th, 2010, 2:05am
 
vas wrote on Feb 7th, 2010, 7:57pm:
things are bad when you have to reply to your own posts...



That can happen, be over looked or simply missed. As I know I would of replied with.

You can select "Open File" as a sound then maybe select an mp3 out of your iTunes Library or anything.

It's good you got it resolved anyhow Wink

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