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Custom sounds in avast 6
« on: February 24, 2011, 08:09:20 PM »
Hello,

one of the lesser-known features of the latest avast is custom sound pack support.

You can spice up your avast installation little bit and get your custom sound pack by going to http://www.avast.com/audio.

My personal favorite is the "Redneck" pack (can be found in the drop-down list of "themed languages").

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 08:11:42 PM »
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 08:15:36 PM »
Brilliant idea, was gonna post a blog about that, since I have the sounds tutorial ;D

And based on my tutorial on how to replace the sounds, the highest viewed page on my site, this is one that people will like.

Maybe in the future, we could have a sound pack builder? Not really sure how it would work, but you could upload what you wanted, and it would generate a sound pack installer, or something along those lines...rather than use the tutorial

Interesting to see what comes about the submission of soundpacks.

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 08:23:07 PM »
It's really not a rocket science to build a sound pack -- so you don't really need any kind of builder.

It's simply a ZIP files with the properly named WAV files in it, renamed to a file with *.avastsounds extension.

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 08:24:49 PM »
Quote from: Vlk on February 24, 2011, 08:09:20 PM
Hello,

one of the lesser-known features of the latest avast is custom sound pack support.

You can spice up your avast installation little bit and get your custom sound pack by going to http://www.avast.com/audio.

My personal favorite is the "Redneck" pack (can be found in the drop-down list of "themed languages").

Thanks
Vlk

Cool, I'm gonna try them out ;D
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2011, 08:29:28 PM »
Quote from: Vlk on February 24, 2011, 08:23:07 PM
It's really not a rocket science to build a sound pack -- so you don't really need any kind of builder.

It's simply a ZIP files with the properly named WAV files in it, renamed to a file with *.avastsounds extension.

Thanks
Vlk

Clever, now my most viewed page is redundant (well not quite since it still allows for single files to be changed), still just make a new one now ;D

Thanks for the info :)
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2011, 09:10:53 PM »
I'm missing something on the audio page to listen to the sound-packs before downlowding. At least a sample would be nice. ;-)
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2011, 09:26:11 PM »
I tend to agree.
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2011, 09:35:45 PM »
I would like to have a Julia ( Avast! Community Manager ) and Mirka ( Avast! Marketing Projects ) soundpack ::)

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2011, 09:42:55 PM »
Ahahaha, the Redneck pack is killing me ;D
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2011, 09:46:57 PM »
Quote from: Vlk on February 24, 2011, 09:26:11 PM
I tend to agree.

I love being agreed to.  ::)

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2011, 10:49:10 PM »
Vlk, Trying to have a go with the sound packs thing...it doesn't seem to work. Says the sound pack has been installed, but it isn't used.

One from the avast website works though ???

Opened up the redneck one and it is exactly the same setup and works. If I rename the red one to spgscott.avastsounds it doesn't work...

Any ideas why?

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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2011, 11:25:18 PM »
I'm not sure I understand... are you saying that if you just take e.g. Redneck.avastsounds and rename it to spgscott.avastsounds, it doesn't work?

That's hard to believe, really... The filename should have no effect whatsoever (maybe only if there was some space in the filename (?)).
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2011, 11:36:38 PM »
If I make the zip file, and then change the file to .avastsounds it says installed but then the normal ones are used.

If I download the ones from the website, they work.

If I rename from red.avastsounds to spgscott.avastsounds it works, but if I change to zip, extract, rename the file, re-zip then it doesn't work (i.e. it just uses the default sounds)
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Re: Custom sounds in avast 6
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2011, 11:51:33 PM »
I'm lovin' the new sounds!

Just a heads up, the "Redneck" text listed in the drop-down box doesn't have a closing bracket after the word "English", while every other text does.  ;)
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