VanguardLH wrote:
Ant wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
Ant wrote:
Or is it not possible? 
In the sound dialog to assign sound files to system events, the only
choice in the format drop-down listbox is WAV. That's what Microsoft
wants to use. WAV is the primary format used in Windows for raw audio
(usually uncompressed). That audio format was created by Microsoft
decades ago.
If you want to try a workaround, you could test if changing the audio
file designated by a registry entry would let you pick something other
than a .wav file.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps
You'll find the sound event names listed as registry subkeys under
there. Under each sound event, there is a .Current registry key for
what audio file is currently assigned to that sound event. See if
replacing the .wav file (or blank entry if none assigned) to a .mp3 file
gets what you want.
Whatever handler that Windows uses to play the sound events may only
support .wav format.
It didn't work.
I suspected that whatever player Windows uses would only handle .wav
files. It's Microsoft's OS and Microsoft's audio format.
Oh well. Thanks for the idea.
Why not convert whatever .mp3 you want to use into a .wav file?
Because they're bigger file sizes.
Aside:
Ever notice that tin doesn't correctly quote (indent with quoting char)
the blank lines in the cited/quoted content of the parent post in a
reply? Instead tin leaves the quoted but blank line as a blank line;
i.e., the leading quoting char is missing. Is that how tin works or is
it something you configured in tin?
I never noticed. I am currently using 2.4.2 release 20171224
("Lochhead") Dec 30 2017 18:08:35 so it should be new enough. You can
report this issue to
about it if you want. It doesn't
bother me.
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