Gaim sounds on Mac OS X..
I suppose I should add a little something here in case anyone else is running into the same annoying problems I was with Gaim on Mac OS X. I was annoyed by the console beep as my only form of sound. This meant that I would get the same tiny console beep for an incomming message, departing message, new buddy sign on, or a buddy sign off. It was annoying to have to check what was going on anytime anything happened.
So how did I solve this problem? Well, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be at first. I installed gaim using fink. So I checked fink to see if there were any programs that could play a sound from the commandline. (I’m unaware of how to do this with any native program on Mac OS X so please let me know if you know a better way.) I found madplay.
This meant that I would need some MP3 formatted sounds to use. I did a little more searching and found some really awesome sounds on a site that’s ironically named bradsucks.net. They were in *.wav format and so I did a simple conversion to *.mp3 to get me off and running. Now, I have clear, soft, and distinct sounds for each major event in Gaim. Woohoo!
Posted: June 22nd, 2005 under Technology.
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