gnome-audio

Gnome-audio is a module designed for GNOME that contains sound files for a default GNOME set. These files can be added to the 'sounds' directory or a subdirectory. The software automatically copies over the entire tree into $(gnome_prefix)/share/sounds. When adding sound files, do remember to add them with the '-kb' option as it tells CVS to treat them as binary files rather than text files.

There are specific criteria for sound inclusion: no licensing issues, appropriate length, appropriate sound, volume and spectral range, good taste, and common sense. All sounds that denote a specific event must be shorter than 1 second while background sounds should not exceed 5 seconds. The software normalizes sound between samples by removing extremes.

Attribution is also important, and the software recognizes sounds from Cleanus-Gnome and Silvertheme by Andreas Karlsson. Other sounds were taken from Borealis by Ivica Ico Bukvic (SlipStreamScapes).

This updated version comes with an added feature to update old sound effects, which were copied from generic.wav. The software also fixed a bug that made it unable to update listed files, and a patch from Vaclav Slavik fixes "-j2" builds.