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| Making your own windows sond set; a quick tutorial | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 21 2009, 05:18 AM (67 Views) | |
| Schneeraubtier | Nov 21 2009, 05:18 AM Post #1 |
 
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The default windows sounds piss me off. So I went on a search to find a program that would enable me to make my own sounds for windows. After minutes of searching and a single attempt I had one. A relatively simple to use program called Audacity. The site to get this freeware. The tutorial uses the non-beta version [http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/pop.php?lame_enc]This is an add-on needed to save mp3 songs using Audacity. Not needed for the tutorial but nice to have for afterwards when you use audacity to either fix crap songs or make new freaks of nature. I have a nice collection of demon metal as I have dubbed it.[/url] To start you will need a song in the supported file format. An Mp3 is a likely one that you have. WAV and Ogg Vorbis are two other supported file types. Once your song loads hit play to make sure it is going to work. The first time I tried this I had picked an AAC song and it came out as a few seconds of static. If your song works you can carry on. You will notice a blue wavy area in your window. When you click on it a line will appear at wherever you clicked. Click at 30s mark, that is where the line will show up. Now drag the line until it covers the section of song you want. to make sure that is what you want, hit play. At this point precision is not important so don't worry about that. Once you have a rough outline of what you want click the copy button. Its in the toolbar right above the blue wavey place. Click "File" and "New". In your new window click the paste button, right beside the copy button. Now your selection will be much easier to manage and more precise. If more precision is needed, repeat the copy paste process. If you want you can apply sound effects to the area of blue you have selected. One I like is the fade out and fade in effect. It makes the sound seem less harsh and sudden. Once you have your short audio segment ready, click on "File", "Export Selection as WAV". WAV is the format that the windows sounds uses. Be sure to save it in a place you will remember. The next step is based upon your OS. I only know how to access the system sounds for W7 but there is access for it at least as far back as Windows 2000, so with a bit of digging and search engine use you should be able to access it and the rest of the tutorial will still apply for your windows OS. Open the control panel and click on hardware and sounds, change system sounds. Its that easy in W7. Now you will want to find the windows sound you want to change. Simply click on the sound and hit "Browse". Now find your song and open it. When you have all of the sounds you want switched hit apply and close the window. You're done now. Enjoy your new windows sounds. ::cheer:: Edited by Schneeraubtier, Nov 21 2009, 05:42 AM.
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| Setoshin | Nov 22 2009, 01:11 AM Post #2 |
 
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This is actually pretty cool. I wouldn't do it because I'm perfectly satisfied with the defualt sound set, so to change it seems a bit excessive. But this was pretty interesting. A good read. |
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