Custom sounds in avast 6

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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

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;D

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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.

Scott

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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

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Cool, I’m gonna try them out ;D

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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 :slight_smile:

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I’m missing something on the audio page to listen to the sound-packs before downlowding. At least a sample would be nice. :wink:

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I tend to agree.

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I would like to have a Julia ( Avast! Community Manager ) and Mirka ( Avast! Marketing Projects ) soundpack ::slight_smile:

Greetz, Red.

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Ahahaha, the Redneck pack is killing me ;D

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I love being agreed to. ::slight_smile:

Vlk: WebRep still down on the server side? It’s not showing anything here… just grey…

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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?

Scott

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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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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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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. :wink:

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lovin the Canada one ;D perhaps a British one will be made as well, and also female versions of each? :slight_smile:

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I am loving the Canada one. How about a vampire one? ;D

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I’m a great fan of Jeff Foxworthy :wink:
http://www.jefffoxworthy.com/comedy/index.html

I’ll have to try the Canadian one EH!

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You are missing out on trying IE9 RC 64bit :wink:
I am posting with it now and it is really fast. 8)

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Does IE9 RC have any bugs I should be worried about if i download it?