Alert plays extra sound

Question

''locking this thread as duplicate, please continue at [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1026996 /questions/1026996]''
I recently upgraded from thunderbird 26.4 to 31.2. I have always had it play a sound when new mail arrives, and since I upgraded to 26.4 it has also put up an alert box (showing who the new mail is from). Now, it still does both of those things, but the alert box now plays an extra sound (which I'm not sure how to describe, but is 3 notes, rising in pitch, sounding kind of like "di-de-loo") that is played at the same time as my new email sound. Both sounds played together are highly annoying. If I turn of "Show an alert" it doesn't play the extra sound - but also doesn't put up the box showing me who the mail was from. If I turn off "play a sound" I just get the "di-de-loo", which is not what I want
I'm running mountain lion on a mbp retina. If I go to the sound effects tab in the system preferences, I can "select an alert sound" but that seems to be a different sound. Just a kind of a beep (called "funk") that I get under certain circumstances - like when I hit backspace when I'm already at the beginning of a prompt in a terminal window. I can't tell where it might be getting that "di-de-loo" sound from.
Thanks.
-J

Answer 1

bratboy wrote:
Well, most all of the newer cards offer something like that already. If you get a card with the i/o dri've you even get 2, one on the front that you can even set to automatically mute speakers. Anyway, in case you didnt know what a flexi Jack, which is on all x-fi's:Flexi Jack on back of CardPerforms a 3-in- function, supporting Microphone-in, Line-in and Digital I/O connections.
Connect one of the following to this jack:<A target=_blank>[/url][*]analog devices like cassette players and other line-level sources</LI><A target=_blank>[/url][*]a microphone</LI><A target=_blank>[/url][*]the Digital I/O Module*</LI><A target=_blank>[/url][*]external digital audio devices that accept stereo PCM or compressed Dolby Digital/DTS Bitstream from the S/PDIF output</LI>
I suppose(d) he's after 2 analog outputs only (if he need to swap cables then he supposeingly uses the same output line for both). If he uses multichannel analog speakersystem then the matter is whole different --> he will need a splitter or switcher to split/switch between that ch/ch2 -line between speakers and headphones. <i>I see only two analog inputs and one digital I(/O) on that Flexi Jack description you bring here (did this just become inserted on wrong thread?)</i>.
Yes, present (good) cards have separate headphone output line (with own amp, and w/wo external boxes).
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 09-9-2005 02:9 AM