Hi All,
Hope this is not off topic, but Jody's search for an iPhone app that
would play a doorbell for dog training reminded me that Mac users who
bought previous versions of the iLife Suite for multimedia on their
computers (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand for music) have
access to the audio loops and many sound effects that installed with
these apps on their computer. They're in:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/
and there are two main folders: "Apple Loops for Garageband" and
"iLife Sound Effects". You can simply play them, or you can make them
into ringtones. (Navigate to them in Finder with the Command-Shift-G
"Go to Folder" shortcut, then type or paste in "/Library/Audio/Apple
Loops/Apple/" into the dialog box and press return.)
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.
These files all have .caf extensions, so you can't add them directly
to iTunes. (The .caf stands for "Core Audio File", which is like
AIFF -- or WAV on Windows -- but is an extended format version that
is not limited to the 4 GB maximum size and number of channels that
AIFF and WAV support.)
If you have Amadeus Pro, you can simply open these files with that
application and convert to AIFF or other format. For example, if
you want to create a ringtone from the "Cell Phone Ringing.caf" file
or "Old Telephone Ring.caf" file in the "Work - Home" folder, use
the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) to open the file with Amadeus Pro,
then select all (Command-A) and choose the "Export as iPhone
Ringtone…" option from the FIle menu on the menu bar (VO-M to menu
bar, press "F" to go to "File", arrow down and press "E" to go to
"Export as iPhone Ringtone…", press return). The sound clip will
show up under your iTunes Ringtones. (You might want to edit the
name to remove the .caf extension).
To get back to Jody's original thread, there are some Klaxon sirens
under Transportation, and weirder warp drive alarms and space ship
sirens under Sci-Fi. Plus, there are a lot of neat Foley effects.
For new Mac users who have not purchased the iLife suite of apps --
you might want to hold off on this, because the rumor is that Apple is
about to release a new version (iLife '11) in the next few weeks.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 12, 2010, Jody W Ianuzzi wrote:
I was looking for an app that would play a doorbell so I could use
it in dog
training. I found a FREE app called Alarms and sirens. Imention it
because it is accessible with Voice Over. it has a dozen or so sounds
including doorbell, police siren, emergency siren, back up alarm and
a space
alert siren.
It is just a fun sounds app but it does work with VO.
OH, and my dog was not fooled by the doorbell sound from the phone.
<GRIN>
JODY
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