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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. Random sounds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this what Ask Slashdot has boiled down to - asking about playing random sounds when email arrives? There's gotta be better material to pick from than this.

  2. I'm not a programmer but.. by LennyDotCom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If there are no programs to do this already how about a program that renames teh files in a folder to a specified name randomly ? then you set outlook to what ever name you have set. Unless of course outlook caches the sound.

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  3. Re:slashdot is soooo dead by real_smiff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    also, it's farking stupid. the point of a new mail sound (or any event sound) is to have a sound that you know means new mail. if you've got apps making random sounds, how are you meant to know what's going on.
    probably why no mail app has such a feature.
    oh sorry, it would be "entertaining" :p

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  4. Wow by Goo.cc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Without trying to disrespect the submitter, I can't believe this is a Ask Slashdot topic. Certainly this would have been better answered on a Windows related forum.