Play Random Sounds for E-Mail Notifications?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 19, 2005 @11:15AM 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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Symlink! Symlink! by wikinerd · 2005-07-19 18:44 · Score: -1, Redundant

Dump Outlook and Windows and install GNU/Linux or a BSD, then write a program to create a symlink to a random sound and re-create it every minute, and configure your mail client to open that symlink as a sound.