Hi James,
You might try looking in your system libraries for more sound files
with the ".caf" file extension (that stands for "Core Audio File").
When I bought my MacBook (the last release before the Unibody models)
it came with sounds as part of the iLife 08 installation in:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/
under two main folders: "Apple Loops for Garageband" and "iLife Sound
Effects"
The "iLife Sound Effects" folder has lots of interesting folders, such
as "Animals" -- with chimpanzees, dogs, frogs, loons, seagulls,
roosters, sheep, brontasaurus wails, etc. or the "Work - Home " folder
with cell phone ringing and dialing sounds, telephone busy, dial
tones, fax machine tones, etc. You can QuickLook any of these by
starting at the first folder in a Finder list view, pressing space bar
to let QuickLook start playing the sound, and then using your down
arrow key to move on to QuickLook the next file to sample the sounds.
There are probably similar files that you can look for on the iLife 09
disc, if you have it. (I don't have it conveniently to hand to
check.) If you did a clean Snow Leopard install, I don't think the
files will be on your machine in this location. I've hauled this
information up from a post to another list from last September --
someone wanted to make ringtones that sounded more like a regular
telephone for a new iPhone.
The .caf file type can't get added to iTunes, but they can be opened
and edited with Amadeus Pro. The .caf files are like .aiff files (or
like .wav files for Windows), but they use an extended format so that
they are not limited to the 4 GB maximum size or to the number of
channels that .aiff or .wav files can support. Also, ringtone
creation under Amadeus Pro is particularly slick -- after you've
created a clip under 40 seconds long of the section you want, you just
select all (Command-A), and use the File menu option of "Export as
iPhone Ringtone…" and the sound clip appears in the correct format and
file extension in your iTunes library under ringtones.
Try doing a search of your Mac or of the iLife discs by file name for
files with a ".caf" extension.
Also, the basic system sounds are stored under "/System/Library/
Components". Here you'll have to navigate to "CoreAudio.component"
and use the context menu or control-click to "Show Package Contents",
just as Nic described in answering your question about finding the
intro sound files. Now go to "Contents/Resources/SystemSounds" and
check the folders. These aren't start up sounds, and I don't think
you can change the start up sound -- which is part of doing the power
up self test that the machine is working correctly. You could add a
login item to your account to run a program to play your sound,
however. I haven't tried any of this myself.
Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 19, 2010, James & Nash wrote:
Hi list,
Lyn and i were wondering if there was anywhere that we could get
free high quality sounds for mac OS X and if we could get a sound
to play when we log into Mac OS X please?
Thanks
James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny
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