System Sounds Contest Wrap-up | Haiku Project

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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/
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Thanks to all the contestants who entered and congratulations to all the winners!

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:skull: :skull: :skull: i didn’t know it was gonna be THAT much of a landslide

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Thank you all who participated.

Tried to associate the sound theme sounds through “sound preferences” from deskbar. Initially just the “beep”. I got an error message saying: “this is not an audio file”. Of course is an audio file and the system plays it without problem. Any idea what I am missing?

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Setting the MIME type? .ogg files are apparently tagged as video/ogg even if they contain only sound.

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Thanks for the idea! It was something close. Even if the system was playing them “.wav” didn’t have an associated application in “File types”. After I did that and “identified” all wav files in folder I was able to add system sounds.

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I just listened to the winning sounds.
I think they sound great. Very professional en crisp.
(BTW I didn’t listen to the others, sorry)

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After associating correctly system sounds and rebooting I can only hear the startup sound, nothing else. This is on recent 64bit nightly. Is this known, miss something or I need to create a ticket?

Update: don’t hear any Windows related sounds but I did hear keyboard switch sound right now. So some of them working and some not.

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They are defined but unused. AFAIK, the currently used ones are startup, beep (on quite a few places on error conditions), the notification ones and I think some for new mails.

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Thanks for clarifying. So, until now I have heard startup, keymap switch and error sounds.

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preferences/sound only accepts audio/ mimetypes, and we can’t always correctly detect what is video and what is audio (for some containers that would require complex parsing, that we don’t do) https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15545

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Congrats Garrett!!!

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I am using the winning sound theme as I had downloaded. It looks like all have been identified as wav audio. So probably some are not utilized at all as stated above I suppose.