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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. hmm... by sycotic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    set windows to play a sound eg. c:\sounds\newmail.wav and then have a folder with a number of wave files in it eg. c:\sounds\collection and schedule tasks to copy sounds to c:\sounds\newmail.wav every X minutes/seconds/whatever ?

    pretty clunky but relatively simple for the average bear

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  2. ... Use the Macros by johnnliu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In Outlook, press ALT-F11
    Write your macro that plays your sound file.

    Go to your Rules & Alerts
    Create a rule for receiving emails - to play your Macro.

    Bonus point.
    Make your macro play a random sound.

    I think the whole effort should take about 5 minutes.