Feature Request : Custom notification sound

[whereisr0da]

Hi, everything is in the title.

The ability to set a path to an MP3 file used as notification sound.

Thank you.

(wrong label sorry)

[olsh]

Hi @whereisr0da, I'd gladly accept PR for this.

[whereisr0da]

Ok, thanks a lot :)

[Xebtria]

I would like to disable the sound entirely, not just set a custom mp3

[olsh]

@Xebtria, there is an option for this.

• [ ] Play alert sound on new feeds

Does it work for you?

[Xebtria]

@olsh I at first wanted to say that I don't have such an option:

https://i.imgur.com/bmlUPjL.png https://i.imgur.com/DhCxNrO.png https://i.imgur.com/OBwLclf.png

because in the ~5 hours I was using this extension I did not find the options, but I did now: https://i.imgur.com/HxDI3UI.png seems like I was blind, it is working now, sorry for the inconvenience

[Gabarito007]

Where is the sound file? I had searched under entire Firefox profile folder, but I couldn't find it. Sound is too loud and I'd like just to change it for another one.

So...

...where is the sound file?

Thx

[olsh]

Hi @Gabarito007 The file is here https://github.com/olsh/Feedly-Notifier/tree/master/src/sound and here is the code that plays it https://github.com/olsh/Feedly-Notifier/blob/196f37429addcd209ff4cf25b068caf81c1f9afb/src/scripts/core.js#L396-L400

I'm not sure if FF unpacks extensions.

[Gabarito007]

Thank you, for your reply, olsh.

But I mean "where is the sound file" on my computer. I say that because I may change it for another sound file, not too loud than that.

There is no "alert.mp3" on my machine. But I can hear it at each new feedly notify. How does the magic is done?

[olsh]

I believe that FF stores extensions here for windows. C:\Users\olsh\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yltzgf2j.default-1481210500319-1595066975366\extensions\jid1-BOjn8b0IM7kH2w@jetpack.xpi

Where olsh is my OS username and yltzgf2j.default-1481210500319-1595066975366 is my FF profile. jid1-BOjn8b0IM7kH2w@jetpack.xpi is the extension file. I'm not sure if FF unpacks it on disk somewhere. Maybe FF unpacks it only in memory.

[Gabarito007]

I could find the extension. And it has, in fact, "alert.mp3" inside xpi file. But it ruins my plans to change the sound of the file...

Because I have no idea how to change sound in memory...

[Gabarito007]

Hey!

I had an idea!

I unpacked xpi file and overwritten original "alert.mp3" with a lower sound, and packed it again. FF accepted my modified xpi file and, now, I'm waiting the next notify to check if my change works.

🙂

[Gabarito007]

Hey!

I had an idea!

I unpacked xpi file and overwritten original "alert.mp3" with a lower sound, and packed it again. FF accepted my modified xpi file and, now, I'm waiting the next notify to check if my change works.

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Success!

I can change or edit file "alert.mp3" to fill my purposes.

Thank you!

😀😀😀

[wolfpurplemoon]

Thanks @Gabarito007 for detailing your steps, I can't seem to replicate them myself without corrupting the add on and having to reinstall, but I'm not even sure why this add on needs such a disruptive sound that doesn't have any options to toggle it off, anyone know a feedly add on that doesn't have a sound?

[olsh]

Hey @wolfpurplemoon

this add on needs such a disruptive sound that doesn't have any options to toggle it off

The extension actually has such an option, please check this https://github.com/olsh/Feedly-Notifier/issues/172 and this https://github.com/olsh/Feedly-Notifier/issues/164#issuecomment-650726758

[wolfpurplemoon]

thanks @olsh I've never used an add on that hid its options like that, thanks for pointing to it, it was very hard to find

[olsh]

You're welcome.

I've never used an add on that hid its options like that

Well, this wasn't intentional, this is how FF works. In Chrome, this page can be found much easier

[Gabarito007]

I'd like to say that my old solution, to extract alert.mp3 and lower its volume, doesn't work... After edit the sound and pack it again to a xpi file, Firefox says that the file was tampered and refuses to accept it.

So, the previous question remains: how to have a notification sound not too loud?

[olsh]

I'd like to say that my old solution, to extract alert.mp3 and lower its volume, doesn't work...

I probably add volume parameter in the next version. Also, if you know some nice and free-to-use sounds, please let me know. Probably we can just add an option to choose a notification sound from a couple of sounds.

[Gabarito007]

Great!

Thank you for your prompt response.

Here, you get a lot of free use sounds. https://notificationsounds.com/

And the tip about a volume slider is very good too.

[olsh]

I've added the ability to change the notification sound and select a sound from a predefined list (let me know if you want to add a specific sound to the collection). These features are available in the 2.29.0 version.

Thanks 💯