What sound do you use for your alarms?

[bdegroodt]

Getting real tired of the default alarms that ship with the PPC. Trying to find some cool sounding ones to replace them with. Anyone care to share theirs? Anything "Macish?"

[guinness]

I have some of the startup sounds from the old Mac's, they're not very long though, the longest one is 2.8 s (from a Power Mac) and the very old Mac startup sounds are less then a second long.

[bdegroodt]

I found some of the coolest sounds just now at a little site called Sound Rangers. (http://www.soundrangers.com) Some very unique sounds. I got a 2 sounds. One called "monster_mad02" and the other called "stinky alert" Very cool work. Only cost a $1.45 a piece and they have a whole host of original and fun work.

[Pony99CA]

Getting real tired of the default alarms that ship with the PPC. Trying to find some cool sounding ones to replace them with. Anyone care to share theirs? Anything "Macish?"
I use a file called Startlev.wav that somehow ended up on my Pocket PC. I'm not sure what program installed it, though. It sounds like a loud gong, so I copied it to a file called Gong.wav just so it would be easy to find and I wouldn't lose it if I ever uninstalled whatever installed it.

Steve

[CTSLICK]

I use a snippet of the theme from ESPN Sports Center, sounds great...makes me smile :D

[davidspalding]

This question seems to get asked again and again....

I have some Star Trek sounds which are good, both at getting my attention and not annoying others. I also have several of the Win2000 and Office 2000 sounds installed, which are far "softer" and gentler than the default sounds. I strongly recommend finding and previewing those, and they don't cost $1.45. ;)

Finally, I have a few of my vast collection of arcane and diverse "bings, "boops," and "bloops" from other OS', sci-fi movies, et al.

I'm really short on MacOS sounds though ... guinness, could you post a .zip file of yours? The only working one I've got is a pre-Quadra startup "chord."

[bdegroodt]

...I also have several of the Win2000 and Office 2000 sounds installed, which are far "softer" and gentler than the default sounds. I strongly recommend finding and previewing those, and they don't cost $1.45. ;)

Funny. I was getting ready to rip out my standard XP/Office sounds with some of the Sound Rangers sounds. They are far better and fresher than the MSFT sounds (In my opinion.).

[dcharles18]

Heh, I used to have a pretty left leaning professor for one of my poly sci classes in college. I had a .wav file of Cartman from Southpark saying, "It's all a bunch of tree huggin hippie crap!" set as my reminder for that class. Funny thing was, one day I was in his office talking with him about 10 min before class when the alarm sounded. He asked "What was that" and, sort of embarrassed, I told him that was my reminder that it was time for his class. :oops:

[davidspalding]

My criteria for basic event sounds on teh PPC were that the supplied sounds are "tinny," and rather annoying. Tink, tink, clank, clunk. bonk. Stuff like that. The MSFT -2000 sounds are softer, gentler revisions of older, tried-n-true sounds. Notify is a good one. Also ... they're small, don't use up a lot of RAM to install. The Casio also has a pretty loud speaker, so I wanted my system sounds to be quieter.

For a while I had "cool" sounds, but I noticed that long, funny, distinctive sounds were also more attention-getting than I wanted in an office, and public, environment. YMMV, of course. Some people want a really distinctive ring on their phone, my phone is very quiet and generic.