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Play Random Sounds for E-Mail Notifications?

Posted by Cliff on from the eschew-audio-boredom dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I, like many of my fellow Outlook-using geek friends, like to set funny sounds to be played when a new message arrives ('Leeroy Jenkins' is the one I have set now). However, we have always wanted to be able to have random sounds be played when a new message arrives, rather than the same sound over and over. I've searched high and low, and I was hoping Slashdot could suggest/write a program that can randomly play sound files from a specified folder when a new message arrives. Any ideas?"

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  1. Ooh! What a great idea! by Datoyminaytah · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like! In fact, I like it so much, I think I'll assign random sounds to ALL system events!

    [click][click][clickity][click]

    Done!

    SPROING!!!

    Oh! I've got an email! Um...no, wait - what was that? Maybe an instant message...nope. Oh no! It's an illegal oper@*^!>$?%_)#&=

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    assert(birth_date<time-86400)
  2. Try a free program by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    from Claria. Nothing makes a Windows PC do random shit faster.

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    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
  3. This is better than the Ask Slashdot I submitted.. by Tezkah · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is better than the Ask Slashdot I submitted, where I wanted to find out a way for thunderbird to play a random sound every time my RSS feed picks up a new Slashdot story.

    I settled for comic book guy saying "Worst. Slashdot. Story. EVER."

    Surprisingly its true every time!