Change Sounds

stlboi · #1 April 17th, 2007, 10:49 AM

I've searched everywhere and I can't find how to change my sounds, like my welcome sound when I turn on my intel macbook. This has to be possible, right?

stlboi · #2 April 17th, 2007, 01:31 PM

I have a feeling this has been asked before.

bobw · #3 April 17th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Some sound files are here and can be changed;

System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component(Right click or Control click for Package Contents)/Contents/Resources/SystemSounds

The Startup sound is on the Logic Board.

Check SystemSound to change that.

stlboi · #4 April 17th, 2007, 06:30 PM

Well, I got SystemSound and added a startup sound which happens after I log in. I'm trying to find the sound that plays soon after you hit the power button. Any idea where that is and how to change it? If I find it and replace it with another sound but keep the name of the file the same and replace it, it should play my custom sound, right? I just need it's location.

Flying Meat · #5 April 17th, 2007, 08:03 PM

That "blong" startup sound, right after you hit the power button, is in firmware/ROM and is not changeable, any more than the beep-beep, famous in older PCs or the silence in the newer PCs.

There is no alternate "bios" you can install.

You can however find a utility that makes the startup sound silent across normal reboots and startups.

Yet more info:
The blong occurs before nearly anything has had time to load. Way before the hard drive, so unless you want to hack your EFI settings (unknown territory. i don't even think i've ever heard of a developer working in that realm...) it is unlikely you will be able to edit that sound.

Lt Major Burns · #6 April 17th, 2007, 08:14 PM

yup. easier than changing it, is accepting it.

learn to love that sound as the sound of a healthy mac. if you turn it off, and your computer happens to go tits up, you will have lost the first port of diagnosis. if it's a problem that it might wake someone, keep a set of headphones near the mac, which you can plug in if you reboot at night, the sound will get bypassed into the headphones. to be honest, even just a minijack cut of the end of a set of headphones would work, as a totally effective and removable 'patch'.

stlboi · #7 April 18th, 2007, 01:14 AM

Thanks guys, it doesn't annoy me at all, just wanted to customize my mac with funny sounds fully across the board. I guess that one will just have to do.