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Nice, Simple Smooth Chime / Beeps wanted ???

 
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 5:01pm

I'm looking for a chime tone similar to what you hear when you're on a plane and they turn on the fasten seatbelt signs.

Just a nice mellow double or single chime.

Most of the sounds in the POI library are too complex or have voice messages.

anyone know where you could find mellow, simple sounds like I'm describing?

I searched the internet (Google) like crazy and came up empty handed.

thanks

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 5:06pm

MS Office

If you have MS Office, you can browse the media files for .wav's on your computer, and convert them to .mp3's if necessary.

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 5:32pm

Office is a poor tool for the job

Juggernaut wrote:

If you have MS Office, you can browse the media files for .wav's on your computer, and convert them to .mp3's if necessary.

Not sure why one would need or want Office for this task, an audio player like WinAmp is much more suitable. And/or use an audio editor like Audacity to edit an existing file. (I would stick with WinAmp for playback and only use the editor once I found something to edit.) There are many programs what will produce a mp3, if needed (Google is your friend), but the original poster doesn't include in his account what model GPS he has so we don't know if he needs wav or mp3.

With very little searching I found what may be suitable at http://soundfxnow.com/sound-fx/airplane-chime-ding-dong/ . Personally I might change the pitch a little with Audacity. If you only wanted a ding rather than a ding-dong then Audacity would also let you edit for only the first of the two tones.

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 7:35pm

Good tip

Frovingslosh wrote:

With very little searching I found what may be suitable at http://soundfxnow.com/sound-fx/airplane-chime-ding-dong/ . Personally I might change the pitch a little with Audacity. If you only wanted a ding rather than a ding-dong then Audacity would also let you edit for only the first of the two tones.

Good find. I like this WEB site.

-jgracey

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 8:25pm

Neat Site!

Thanks for passing that along - looks like some interesting stuff there.

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 9:17pm

Correction...

Frovingslosh wrote:

Not sure why one would need or want Office for this task, an audio player like WinAmp is much more suitable.

I said to look for Office wave files, then convert them to mp3 if required; not convert them with Office, which it can't do, AFAIK.

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 9:42pm

Piling on

Juggernaut wrote:

I said to look for Office wave files

What are Office wave files?

I would have held down the windows key while simultaneously pressing F and then done a search for ".wav" files.

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 9:48pm

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True, but I don't know the proficiency of the OP, or whether they have a PC, or Mac.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 1:48am

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Another place for sound files would be ringtone sites. The one I use is http://www.zedge.net/ringtones

Thousands of free ringtones that you can download to your computer. Just search for ding or chimes and you get hundreds of hits.

I searched for "plane seatbelt" and found this http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/0-0-1-plane%20seatbelt/?searc...