SoundPackager Beta Released!

Available for Object Desktop Subscribers

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock released the beta of SoundPackager, a new program that brings customization of your auditory experience to Object Desktop! SoundPackager is now available for Object Desktop users as a BETA announced today.

SoundPackager makes customizing your sound experience in Windows easy, by allowing users the ability to choose from "sound packages," eliminating the need to edit each system sound assignment individually.

SoundPackager supports over 30 different system sounds and includes unique Stardock Design sound packages that will eliminate the time that is consumed by users hunting down similar sounds to assign for each event.

With SoundPackager, sound packages come as a single file, opened through SoundPackager, containing sounds that are tailored to a specific theme (such as football, space, etc.). So now, when you apply a theme, 30+ sound events for Windows are updated to your favorite theme automatically! No more searching for sounds and assigning them each individually.

If you don’t have Object Desktop, visit www.objectdesktop.com to get it. Visit the SoundPackager home page at www.soundpackager.com.

The SoundPackager gallery on WinCustomize is now up, so you can now upload your sound packs for the rest of the community.

SoundPackager Main Dialog



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ZubaZ
Reply #21 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:28 PM
Question, Why is the "Copy Sound Package" in the menu?
I'd guess it's so you can customize a pack without wrecking the original.
A delete would be a great option.

Qx9
Reply #22 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:02 PM
Do yourself a favor and save your current sound theme before using this program. Do that by going to the control panel, sound tab, and save your old sound scheme. Once you play with this program, go to control panel, sound, and select your original sound scheme from the drop down list. Then, do yourself another favor and uninstall this until they fix it and provide more themes.

- Web

Leo the Lion
Reply #23 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:32 PM
WoooooooW!!!!! And we were only discussing sound themes on another thread in the forums and low and behold, here it is !!!!!! Perhaps that 'little nudge' helped the guys at Stardock bring it to us a little earlier than expected but Brad's cute and this makes 'business sense'. Always keep your products in the 'limelight'. Look at avenues to improve your existing products and add new products when you can. You are on a roll, Brad......With this little sound number and WB6 coming up..........and I take my hat off to you and everyone at Stardock.   

kin242
Reply #24 Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:41 AM
Uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, ran around the block...

still get the Line 5 error...

I'm just sulking coz I dont like football! Gimme more packages and I'll be like a pig in the proverbial!

PhrozenMenace
Reply #25 Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:01 AM
not for me sorry..too geekish

PixelPirate
Reply #26 Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:13 AM
So this means I can have my OS moan, when I press her buttons?

AstroDome
Reply #27 Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:26 AM
Hahaha.. If you are lucky.  
I'll have a look at it right away..

bobbyhundreds
Reply #28 Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:39 AM
As an aside . . are uploaded packages going to have to be user produced?


LOL I hope not,I was going to make a comedy sound pack with farting noises in it.    

ZubaZ
Reply #29 Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:49 AM
LOL I hope not,I was going to make a comedy sound pack with farting noises in it.
A joke so bad it stinks! 

Looks like Stardock has release it's second theme: Baseball !

Thanks

starkers
Reply #30 Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:31 AM
I was going to make a comedy sound pack with farting noises in it


Go ahead....make my day....gotta be better than sport themes.

Orright, I getcha....farting is a sport...a universally reognised sport that's embraced by fans worldwide.

bobbyhundreds
Reply #31 Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:48 PM
A joke so bad it stinks!

    Prrpphh!   
farting is a sport...a universally recognised sport that's embraced by fans worldwide

I've written to the I.O.C. to see if they will include it in the London 2012 games.    



Zargon
Reply #32 Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:49 PM

Thanks for all of your feedback and patience with this BETA.

Delete button is on it's way.  We had that on the list, but decided to release the BETA now rather than wait.

We will uploaded a BASEBALL soundpack to the Wincustomize gallery this week.  Car racing to follow via an SDC update to the application.

 


Zargon
Reply #33 Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:56 PM

As far as the themes go, I would be open to suggestions, but please remember that any suggestions about things that involve a copyright or intellectual property are more difficult to produce quickly due to the legal ramifications.

If we were to provide SoundPackages that involved IP we could include some with the base package to add value, but in order help with variety we would want to do more.  In order to allow people to only get what they want we would look to make these items available for purchase as well.

Would users pay for sound packages?  If so, how much?


JeremyG
Reply #34 Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:14 PM
any chance we'll see advanced customization of sounds?

For example a sound when Explorer.exe closes that is different than the sound when Interent Explorer closes?

ZubaZ
Reply #35 Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:33 PM
Would users pay for sound packages? If so, how much?


The nice thing about licensed IP is that the quality of the product is usually checked by the IP holder to make sure it's up their standards.  I'd bet they provide the content in this case.

Part of the math in price is, "Is it cheaper to buy than make my own?"  Cheaper can encompass quality or time or effort.

I doubt that I would buy a stand-alone sound scheme.  But I would be much more likely to buy a MyColor suite with a soundpack included. (Having said that . . I'd probably spring for Star Wars.  Yeah, I know.  I'm a product of my youth)

I think more generic soundpackages will be better than licensed package in the initial release.  Create a "Sci-Fi" package that might go with some more "tech-y" WB skins. 
A music series might be interesting.  Think disco, metal, classical, techno.  Those might fit with any skin or theme.
I think a first-person-shooter soundpackage might be popular. Imagine the Wilhem scream as Windows throws an error.

As an aside, I'd like to see somewhere in the app a tutorial/essay on what makes a good soundpackage.

As another aside, going forward is this the standard model for SD apps or is Logon Studio?  They are very similar but button placement is different as are some of the options.

Philly0381
Reply #36 Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:55 PM
Zargon0225, Zubaz hit on a option that I think most people would like. Along with My Colors suites, Master and Premium suites with the Sound Package would be nice.

A whole set of generic packages as Zubas suggested would also be nice in just setting up and completing your own desktop.

Based on the feedback I've read I'm going to wait to download, but I will use the package for sure.   

Disturbedcomputer
Reply #37 Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:44 PM
this likes or should I say Sounds cool

but i am having a problem finding where to get it
i opened up my Stardock Central Program but SoundPackager beta
is not in the list and I went to stardock.com but can't find the lick to donwload

and YES i am a objectdesktop subscriber


any help will be appreciated

thanks

ZubaZ
Reply #38 Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:56 PM
Can you verify that you have "Show pre-release versions" checked in the lower left of SDC?

Disturbedcomputer
Reply #39 Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:43 PM
Can you verify that you have "Show pre-release versions" checked in the lower left of SDC?


yes I do have it checked for some reason it is/or was not installing
some how it installed but I have NO packages
Stardock sent me an Archive file but was still getting and Eorror

here is the Error I get

-- [Application] ----------------------------------------------------
Name: Stardock Central
Path: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral
Version: 2.46.477, build: 139

-- [System Information] ---------------------------------------------
Platform: Microsoft Windows Windows XP, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Display: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
Driver Version: 8.351.0.0
System Dir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Time / Date: 14:54:59 -- Thursday, September 13, 2007

-- [Installing] -----------------------------------------------------
Server: http://sdc1.stardock.com
Server Dir: public
Network Id: odnt
Name: SoundPackager [Beta]
App Id: snd
Installed: False
Version: 0.90[b].010
Type: beta
Reg Key: SoundPackager
Install Dir: C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager
Exe: SoundPackager.exe
Last Updated: 09/13/2007

-- [Account] --------------------------------------------------------
First Name: Took Name Out
Last Name:
Email: [email protected]

-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Extract: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\Backup\SoundPackager_0.90[b].010_09.13.2007.sdc 1
Load: C:\DOCUME~1\DISTUR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\snd.xml 1
Move: C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager\Sd.Builder.dll 1 | 09/13/2007 12:27
Move: C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager\Sd.dll 1 | 09/13/2007 12:27
Move: C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager\SoundPackager.exe 1 | 09/13/2007 12:27
Move: UserDocuments\Stardock\SoundPackager\Football.soundpack 0 | 0 The system cannot find the path specified. | 09/11/2007 15:13
Update: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\installed\snd.xml 1
Link: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager.lnk 1
Execute: "C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\SoundPackager\SoundPackager.exe" 1
Result: Installation successful

ZubaZ
Reply #40 Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:47 PM
Woo Woo! I found the CD mentioned in post #7.
Licensed Star Wars, Empire, and (shudder) Jedi!
100MB of sounds. 263 clips (x2 mono and stereo!!).
Zubaz does a dance

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