Use AAC files for iCal alarm sounds

Feb 07, '05 09:23:00AM

Contributed by: mdavis1982

I was getting to know iCal today, and decided to check out the alarm feature. I was disappointed at not being able to use custom sounds for the alarm sounds, when inspiration struck me (okay, a friend told me about it!).

I dragged an AAC file to ~/Library/Sounds and launched iCal. To my horror, the sound that I put in there didn't appear in the pop-up list of alarm sounds. "Okay," I thought, "maybe it's expecting an AIFF file."

Not having an AIFF lying around on my new machine, I decided to rename the AAC file to have a AIFF extension. Magically, the sound appeared in the alarm settings dialog, but I didn't expect it to play. Guess what? It did!

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