Eudora's default musical tone--where is it?
Barry Crawford
I would like to use the default musical tone you hear when Eudora alerts you to
new mail as a .wav file on my system. I cannot find this sound as a .wav file, or
listed in any .ini file, or in the Windows95 registry. Is this sound "locked up"
within the .exe file? Is there somewhere this sound can be extracted and used as
a .wav?
Thanks for any help.
Jeff Collier
Go under your option in Eudora and then click on Getting Attention there
will be three option and a long empty button, click on the button and
you can then point Eudora to the directory of the wav file for it to
play when you have new mail. Hope this helps.
Jeff Collier
je...@netlinkcorp.com
Joe Berg
>
> I have Eudora Light 1.5.2 and Windows95.
>
> I would like to use the default musical tone you hear when Eudora alerts you to
> new mail as a .wav file on my system. I cannot find this sound as a .wav file, or
> listed in any .ini file, or in the Windows95 registry. Is this sound "locked up"
> within the .exe file? Is there somewhere this sound can be extracted and used as
> a .wav?
>
> Thanks for any help.
I'm using Eudora Pro 2.2, and under tools/option there's a setting for "getting
attention" that lets you specify a wave file. Could be this isn't in the Lite
version, though.
Nick Spalding
>I would like to use the default musical tone you hear when Eudora alerts you to
>new mail as a .wav file on my system. I cannot find this sound as a .wav file, or
>listed in any .ini file, or in the Windows95 registry. Is this sound "locked up"
>within the .exe file? Is there somewhere this sound can be extracted and used as
>a .wav?
The problem is that it simply isn't a .wav file, it is as you say
locked into Eudora somewhere, presumably in the .exe, so you can't get
at it to port it to another application. Seems a bit daft when they
will only accept .wav files as substitutes!
I wonder if you could send yourself something to be sure the sound was
going to happen, then set up your soundboard software to record, then
do a check mail and see what you catch! Then when you have it all
tidied up and saved as a .wav you can post it in some binaries group
for all of us.
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: version, though.
That is not what the person was asking. They wanted to know WHERE the
default Eudora "new mail" sound was stored. I BTW do not know where it
is, but i would like to know also.
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Chris MacKelvey
>default Eudora "new mail" sound was stored. I BTW do not know where it
>is, but i would like to know also.
>
From there go to "getting attention"
You will probably have an empty bar at the bottom of the screen.
Click on that and you can browse for a wav file to put in there.
Nick Spalding
>That is not what the person was asking. They wanted to know WHERE the
>default Eudora "new mail" sound was stored. I BTW do not know where it
>is, but i would like to know also.
>
It is somewhere in the bowels of eudora.exe.
Mark Paciga
> >That is not what the person was asking. They wanted to know WHERE the
> >default Eudora "new mail" sound was stored. I BTW do not know where it
> >is, but i would like to know also.
> >
> From there go to "getting attention"
> You will probably have an empty bar at the bottom of the screen.
> Click on that and you can browse for a wav file to put in there.
The question was, where is the DEFAULT sound? As in, how to extract it from
the EXE. You know, the sound that is the first six note's of Ren and
Stimpy's Log song.
Eric Newman
spal...@iol.ie (Nick Spalding) wrote:
>Barry Crawford <barr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>I would like to use the default musical tone you hear when Eudora alerts you to
>>new mail as a .wav file on my system. I cannot find this sound as a .wav file, or
>>listed in any .ini file, or in the Windows95 registry. Is this sound "locked up"
>>within the .exe file? Is there somewhere this sound can be extracted and used as
>>a .wav?
>The problem is that it simply isn't a .wav file, it is as you say
>locked into Eudora somewhere, presumably in the .exe, so you can't get
>at it to port it to another application. Seems a bit daft when they
>will only accept .wav files as substitutes!
>I wonder if you could send yourself something to be sure the sound was
>going to happen, then set up your soundboard software to record, then
>do a check mail and see what you catch! Then when you have it all
>tidied up and saved as a .wav you can post it in some binaries group
>for all of us.
This is a great idea, and I actually tried it. However, I'd already
experimented with changing the sound to a .wav file on my system, and
I don't know how to restore the default. Even if I click on "Play a
Sound" in the "Getting Attention" section of the "Settings" dialog,
then restart Eudora (so that the .ini file will be overwritten), the
default sound does not play. The manual I have (in .pdf format)
contains no information about restoring the default sound.
If someone will be kind enough to help me restore the default sound,
I'll be happy to try to record it and then make it available to all
the people who seem to want it.
Eric Newman
ed...@intac.com
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i...@spectra.net
ed...@intac.com (Eric Newman) wrote:
>This is a great idea, and I actually tried it. However, I'd already
>experimented with changing the sound to a .wav file on my system, and
>I don't know how to restore the default. Even if I click on "Play a
>Sound" in the "Getting Attention" section of the "Settings" dialog,
>then restart Eudora (so that the .ini file will be overwritten), the
>default sound does not play. The manual I have (in .pdf format)
>contains no information about restoring the default sound.
>If someone will be kind enough to help me restore the default sound,
>I'll be happy to try to record it and then make it available to all
>the people who seem to want it.
I had the same problem a couple of days ago. All you have to do is
edit eudora.ini and remove the 'NewMailSound' line (under [Settings])
>Eric Newman
>ed...@intac.com
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Ian Reinhart
i...@spectra.net
Michael J. Flynn
pac...@mis.nb.ca (Mark Paciga) wrote:
Since posting my own problem the other day, I did some tinkering
around, and I found the way to restore the "default" mail alert sound,
so I thought I would pass it along.
(1) Quit Eudora if you have it running. Look in the directory where
Eudora resides for a file called Eudora.ini. You might want to back
it up in case you accidentally "break" something while you are there!
<g>
(2) Open Eudora.ini with a text editing program like Notepad.
(3) Look for a line which says NewMailSound=c:\"your sound file".wav
or something like that.
(4) Completely delete this entire line.
(5) Save the edited version of Eudora.ini.
(6) Restart Eudora; the next time you receive mail, you'll hear the
"default" alert!
I hope this helps!
Mike Flynn