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Event-based sounds![[azbybrown]](/webx/?30@@1) azbybrown - 08:11am Jan 16, 2007 PSTBeing a Mac user since 1988, I've always enjoyed the ease with which I could customize the interface, and like a lot of TidBits readers and contributors I have used quite a few 3rd party utilities to add features over the years. But lately I've been butting my head against something, and I'm wondering if a task which used to be easy is now impossible: having an audio alert play when a finder copy is completed. I had a utility under OS9 which allowed me to set sounds for all sorts of system events, copy included, but lately I've been unable to find one for OSX. I've checked out Growl, DragThing, and several other utilities which seemed likely to provide this functionality, but none do. There seem to be no appropriate controls in the System prefs, not even in Universal Access. And I've tried Automator and AppleScript (though I'm really a novice scripter), but can't seem to find an appropriate item in the Finder's AppleScript dictionary. Am I crazy? Is there some simple way to do this that I'm missing? The reason I want to do this is that my father-in-law hired my 11 year-old-son to back up several hundred old MO discs to a new disk array -- a task he's quite up to and to which he diligently devotes about an hour a day -- but each disk takes about 5 minutes to copy, while he diverts his attention to a book or game, and an audio alert would be really helpful to him. Any advice would be appreciated! Maybe someone already has a script which does this? [I think you'll want Riccardo Ettore's new Sounds4Fun or Unsanity's Xounds. Sounds4Fun is less likely to conflict with other applications, being a normal app and not a haxie. -Adam] < http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~r-ettore/Sounds4Fun.html>
< http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/xounds>
Matt Neuburg (apparently)
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Lewis Butler (apparently)
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Jan 17, 2007 6:53 am
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Re: Event-based sounds
On 16-Jan-2007, at 08:11, azbybrown wrote:
> I'm wondering if a task which used to be easy is now impossible:
> having an audio alert play when a finder copy is completed.
I believe Growl can do this.
< http://growl.info/>
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azbybrown
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Jan 24, 2007 1:46 pm
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Thanks everyone, for your advice. Matt, I wonder what system version you're using? The machine my son is using (a Mac Mini)has 10.4.6; my current machine (Aluminum Powerbook G4)has 10.4.7, and neither produces a sound on completion of a finder copy even with that pref checked. But I seem to recall it working that way under an earlier version of OSX, maybe 10.2?
I tried growl before I posted, too, and though you'd think this would be a popular feature, it has no setting for finder copy!
I'm looking forward to trying Sounds4Fun, and will test Xsounds as well.
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Nik
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Jan 24, 2007 2:01 pm
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Wither Sounds4Fun?
Adam, you've been talking up an OS X version of Sounds4Fun for weeks, now,
and yet it remains impossible to download this new program (as far as I can
tell). Sounds4Fun.com WAS showing the OS 8 (9?) version, but now just has a single
text link to a FAQ page. You have to go all the way to
< http://www.ettoresoftware.com/About%20Sounds4Fun.html> to actually find a
page that mentions the NEW Sounds4Fun. That page links to a purchase page,
which appears ready and willing to take my money, but still offers no demo
of the program nor any promise that you can download it once you pay. Quite puzzling and quite frustrating! --
Nik :: gerber  inik.net
Software picks, serious Mac geekery and productivity tips!
< http://iNik.net/>
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Adam Engst
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Jan 24, 2007 9:21 pm
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At 1:01 PM -0800 1/24/07, Nik wrote:
>Adam, you've been talking up an OS X version of Sounds4Fun for
>weeks, now, and yet it remains impossible to download this new
>program (as far as I can tell).
Try < http://www.sounds4fun.com/Download.html>
cheers... -Adam
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Riccardo Ettore
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Feb 15, 2007 11:46 am
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sorry about the delay making Sounds4Fun available for download after showing it at MacWorld.
I noticed the URL posted above is not working (my fault), so please go here for now: http://ettoresoftware.com/Download.html cheers,
Riccardo (Sounds4Fun developer)
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John Sawyer
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Jun 23, 2007 12:28 pm
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Like Matt, I've always found the Sound prefpane's option for "Play user interface
sound effects" plays an end-of-Finder copy alert--it's that "metallic hammer" sound. Azbybrown might have some other setting active, or not active, that trumps this. But some of the advantages of Sounds4Fun are that you can assign your own sound, volume level, etc. to a specific event.
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Nigel Stanger (apparently)
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Jun 26, 2007 11:37 am
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On 24/6/2007 7:28 AM, "John Sawyer" <johnsawyercjs yahoo.com> spake thus:
> But some of the advantages of Sounds4Fun are that you can assign your own
> sound, volume level, etc. to a specific event.
This reminds me: does anyone have any ideas as to why the standard beep
sound is noticeably louder in Terminal than it is everywhere else? It's very
weird, and I haven't been able to find anything obvious to change it.
It's more obvious on my home machine because it's running through my stereo
system, and scares the crap out of me when I do something like accidentally
hit delete at an empty Terminal prompt :) My work machine is only running
through powered speakers, but the difference is still noticeable.
--
Nigel Stanger, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
http://xri.net/=nigel.stanger
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