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.

pasted text from another site:

"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.

vas wrote on Feb 7^th, 2010, 7:57pm:



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

* bunga