Suggestion to include a sample sound file

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@wertyui

devs on working on this! But one small suggestion I have is to include a sample audio file in future releases (similar to old Windows).

The reason is because it is essential to test if audio is working. The OS boots without any sound feedback and without indications that it’s working. I’m sure on at least one of my machines the sound wasn’t outputting at all, so that’s really

To know if there is sound, I use one of the sound packs created a few years ago:

System Sounds Contest Wrap-up | Haiku Project

Contest for Haiku System Sounds is finally over; and ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Before going into details, lots of thanks to all participants and voters are in order. Thanks to you, Haiku now has a cohesive high-quality sound set, that will hopefully make using Haiku even more pleasant and accessible. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2020-12-07-contest-results/

I open the sounds preflet and select one of the sounds as start sound.