Re: An Incoming Message Sound Adventure

John,

Thanks for the laugh!!!!

So are you saying it is just a LITTTTTLE harder than it used to be to 
change sounds?

We will definitely look at the bug of not being able to import a new 
theme!

Alan

On Apr 26, 2004, at 1:31 PM, John Arnold wrote:

> Once upon a time a happy Fire user upgraded to 1.0, which he really 
> enjoyed. He decided that he would set his incoming message sound to 
> his favourite sound, as he had done easily with Fire 0.32 through the 
> preferences pane. Our intrepid user went through the following steps 
> on his adventure.
>
> 1. He looked through the preferences of the program, and while there 
> were options for sounds and new messages, he could find no way to 
> select his favourite sound.
>
> Now, most users would stop right there and become unhappy. But our 
> intrepid user, who is a CS graduate student and developer, forged on.
>
> 2. Remembering something about a "theme editor" from the Fire Talk 
> list, he went looking for this mystical program. He found a 
> "Firebrand" program on the Fire site at the bottom of the download 
> page, and thought it might be what he wanted, so he downloaded it.
>
> 3. He ran the program and figured out how to use it. However, the 
> program refused to allow him to add his WAV sound file to the theme.
>
> 4. After pondering a little, he figured that perhaps the program 
> wanted an AIFF sound file. He loaded up Sound Studio and converted his 
> WAV file to AIFF. Presto, Firebrand allowed him to import the file and 
> he set up the "Locations" for the sound in the editor. He saved his 
> theme, breathless with anticipation.
>
> 5. Opening the preferences pane in Fire, he looked around until he 
> found the place to add his theme file. He did so, and quickly clicked 
> on its check box in the list to activate it. The check box became 
> checked, and then unchecked. He tried again, perhaps a half dozen 
> times, frustrated by the message "Contains: (null)." He hopefully 
> looked in the Sounds tab to see if he could select his theme, but to 
> no avail.
>
> 6. Finally, the user opened up the Fire.app package, found the 
> imrcv.mp3 and ring.mp3 files, renamed them to something else, copied 
> in his AIFF sound file as imrcv.aiff and ring.aiff, and restarted 
> Fire. Hooray, his sound worked! His grand adventure was finally over. 
> His only wish was that the adventure had not been necessary.
>
> Retired from adventuring for the day,
> John
>
>
>
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