Re: An Incoming Message Sound Adventure

I think the problem is that we don't create the ~/Library/Application 
Support/Fire/Themes directory automatically. If you manually create 
that you should be able to add themes properly. We should be able to 
fix this in 1.0.1.

-Jason

On Apr 26, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Alan Humpherys wrote:
> 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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