New Object Desktop program coming

And new WinCustomize section..

Published on January 19, 2006 By Frogboy In WinCustomize News

Just a head's up, Stardock will soon be putting into beta a new Object Desktop program called SoundPackager (or some name that isn't already trademarked <g>).

It will do for system sounds what IconPackager did for icons. It will add a host of new sounds for all kinds of events on the system that will help spruce up your environment and give you greater control over it. We will have a WinCustomize section for users to submit their sound packages as well.

Comments (Page 3)

NightTrainthedark

on Jan 20, 2006

Start up ..Wooo Hoooo! (Homer)

Shutdown.. Screw you guys, I'm going home. (Eric Cartman)

Island Dog

on Jan 20, 2006

ZubaZ

on Jan 20, 2006

I have a set of floppies from my Win3.1 days from a company (Sound Source Unlimited, Inc) that licenced Star Wars sounds (and video) for system events. It was wicked cool. May have to break out those .wav files for my own use.

Thanks Brad

Attila

on Jan 20, 2006

Should be nice for some users... but I haven't used system sounds since Win 98se

MarkSnyder61

on Jan 20, 2006

I'm psyched!

kin242

on Jan 20, 2006

Brilliant idea... but I'm kind of worried we're going to get some really bad ones. I just pray to god noone does a Mariah Carey one.

Oh yes and also- what about copyright? I'm sure the RIAA will be all over your arses if anyone posts anything remotely similar to anything ever written in the history of mankind...

DesignCaddy

on Jan 20, 2006

Not a fan of system sound schemes myself but i think this is a great way for stardock to expand on windows customization. Way to go

ethsza

on Jan 20, 2006

My first thought was something like: Oh why don't they focus on fixing productivity apps? But again if a policy driven application could be done with invisible memory footprint, that would be nice.
My policies would be:
-no system sounds during audio/video playback
-user customizable option to set visible (skinnable of course) remarks instead of system sounds during audio/video playback, or when laptop speaker is disabled
-lower volume of system sounds during night (i wanna tell what do I call "night"

)
-a lot smoother and a lot less jumpy magnifying effect in objectdock. Oh wait, that is something different, still I'd prefer this to stardock system sounds.

JohnWall

on Jan 20, 2006

Great Idea! (insert Austin Powers sound clip here "yeah babyyyyy".

Adamness

on Jan 20, 2006

I have a feeling everyone is going to start out doing a bunch of movie quotes when this is released. I want some guitar solos for my sounds.

What programs could be used to make system sounds? Will there be a sound version of SkinStudio?

Rich

on Jan 20, 2006

I'd like to see sounds that really match what their connected to. The PC of today should communicate with the user much, much better. Something like "Your has crashed". I'd like to see the PC get more communicative instead of just hearing, , . I hope this is the start of something along these lines.

Dark Hunter115

on Jan 20, 2006

Finally this is what ive been waiting for

-xino

on Jan 20, 2006

Best sound scheme ever: Nullsoft beep.

http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nbeep/

Have fun with it.

Sleeping Dragon

on Jan 20, 2006

I've taken many WB sounds and used them for Windows aps. This will be a most welcome feature.

SauravX

on Jan 20, 2006

hmm, it should be free, as there is already such support on Windows as Sound sceheme & this is more like another interface, i have been using one such theme from a long time, some sounds collected, & i m using it from 6 years

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