On 8/28/23, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > gene heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> odd request: >> >> Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that plays at >> max volume, usually around 2 AM or slightly later, that is very similar >> to the 40 yo doorbell in this house. A bing-bong sound that differs from >> the real doorbell by maybe 5hz in pitch. Wakes me up, spoiling a good >> nights sleep, maybe a dozen times a year an apparently random dates.
> perhaps a desktop sound? i hate noises so i turn them > off. > > see if you have any enabled and if so check them all to see > what they sound like. That's a good one. It triggered the thought that pavucontrol(-qt) sometimes will rat out what is playing any given sound. I see it most often with browser tabs. Pavucontrol will name the title of the tab that's presenting sound. Just tried pavucontrol-qt for alarm-clock-applet, too. It says,"Alarm Clock : Playback Stream." > if a file does not have an extension you can still use the > file command to see if it can figure out what it is. I just tried a "locate" search for "bell" and "door" on my setup. There were "a few" files returned, but they were visibly searchable fairly quickly. That triggered yet another thought: What about some kind of a file search that narrows down "Last Accessed" data for all the various sound file types? Personal experience is that manually viewing e.g. /usr/share isn't 100% perfect. It's been a couple years, but I've also seen sound files stored more locally within some given package's own parent/child file hierarchy. That helps make our favorite file search programs priceless. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
