{"id":185,"date":"2019-05-13T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:29:34","slug":"change-the-sound-played-when-messages-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Change the sound played when messages arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a new item arrives in your mailbox, an audio alert can be used. You can change this short .wav audio file to any valid .wav file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Quit Microsoft Outlook.<\/li><li>Do one of the following:<a href=\"javascript:ToggleDiv('divExpCollAsst_1')\">Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003<\/a>\n<ol><li>In Control Panel, click <strong>Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices<\/strong>, and then click <strong>Sounds and Audio Devices<\/strong>.<strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;If you are using Classic view in Control Panel, double-click <strong>Sounds and Audio Devices<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Sounds<\/strong> tab.<\/li><li>Under <strong>Program Events<\/strong>, under <strong>Windows<\/strong>, select <strong>New Mail Notification<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n<a href=\"javascript:ToggleDiv('divExpCollAsst_2')\">Microsoft Windows 2000<\/a>\n<ol><li>In Control Panel, double-click <strong>Sounds and Multimedia<\/strong>.<\/li><li>On the <strong>Sounds<\/strong> tab, under <strong>Sound Events<\/strong>, under <strong>Windows<\/strong>, select <strong>New Mail Notification<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n<\/li><li>Click <strong>Browse<\/strong>, and then select a new .wav audio file.<\/li><li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The audio file can be located anywhere on your hard disk or network share that you always have access to. If you move the audio file or if the file is not accessible for any reason, the sound will not play.<\/li><li>Restart Outlook.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Download \u201cyou got mail\u201d <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/damonluong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rapmail.wav\"><strong>rapmail<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;alert by RAP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a new item arrives in your mailbox, an audio alert can be used. You can change this short .wav audio file to any valid .wav file. Quit Microsoft Outlook. Do one of the following:Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}