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Topic: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

I'd love to be able to get a copy of those in wav or MP3 or however they're stored. As far as I'm concerned those are the two best alarm sounds I've ever heard in my entire life. Does anyone else agree?

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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

These can be found on the dash at /usr/chumby/alarmtones/

They're in a "raw" format, implying that they're completely uncompressed wave forms that are sent directly to the Sony media player subsystem.  You'd have to find an application to read and convert them to something more conventional.  I don't actually know the format and bitrate, so you'd have to play with that.  I'd try 16-bit stereo at 44100Hz first and go from there.

"Sonar" is "alarm3.raw", and "Wave" is "Wave.raw".

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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

On my chumdash, at least, each raw file also has an associated mp3

[root@tango3 alarmtones]# pwd
/usr/chumby/alarmtones
[root@tango3 alarmtones]# ls -1
Birds.mp3
Birds.raw
Wave.mp3
Wave.raw
alarm1.mp3
alarm1.raw
alarm2.mp3
alarm2.raw
alarm3.mp3
alarm3.raw
alarm4.mp3
alarm4.raw
alarm5.mp3
alarm5.raw
alarm6.mp3
alarm6.raw
  • Duane
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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

Huh -  I didn't think those were there in the initial release, but I could be wrong.  I recall a debate about it at the time.

As far as I can tell, the dash Control Panel has never used the MP3 files, so they're just sitting there.

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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

How would I go about accessing /usr/chumby/alarmtones/ ? Is it in one of the firmware updates on this site? Can you just unzip the update to find it?

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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

You would log into the device using a secure shell (see http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php?title= … e_chumby), insert a USB flash drive, and then do the command:

cp /usr/chumby/alarmtones/*.mp3 /mnt/usb; sync

...then remove the USB drive.

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Re: Sonar and Wave alarm tracks. Does anyone have a copy?

Worked perfectly Duane. Thanks so much. I really do appreciate it.