Mac sound scheme is a port of Mac OS X sounds for Windows. For Windows PC users, these sounds may be interesting but OS X fans will feel right at home.
This theme was initially designed for Windows XP, but can be applied to any version of Windows. It contains 44 sound files.
Mac OS X Sounds for Windows. By bananaeee Watch. 15 Favourites 12 Comments 17K Views. Contains all the alert sound files from OS X Yosemite converted to.wav. I Hear 3 beeping sounds when i start my mac OS X. It just shows a blank light blue screen. I have not updated it in a long time. Mac OS 9 Sounds remix by Matthewscratchaaaa; Mac Sounds remix by Blahphone20; Mac OS 9 Sounds remix by vegcah; Mac OS 9 Sounds remix by AD56015; Mac OS 9 Sounds by PrinceDonkey; loud mac boring lol by RO777; EEEK Something went wrong. By samuel66666678; Mac OS 9 Sounds remix by JacobC02; macOS Big Sur Sounds by Marx90; iMac G3 Startup Sound. Nothing like the old Wild Eep sound except maybe Dogcow’s Moof! Steven Cohen has converted the original Mac OS alert sounds to various formats that work with Mac OS X as well as ringtones for your iPhone. Pretty cool, and for those longtime Mac users; it brings back some fond memories. Mac OS - Download free sound schemes #24846. Description: The presented sound scheme will give your Windows new sound effects, borrowing music from the operating system of the corporation Apple - macOS. Fans and owners of Apple products will be familiar.
- Asterik.wav
- Close.wav
- Complete Navigation.wav
- Contact Online.wav
- Critical Battery.wav
- Critical Stop.wav
- Default Beep.wav
- Device Connect.wav
- Device Disconnect.wav
- Device Failed.wav
- Empty Recycle.wav
- Error.wav
- Exclamation.wav
- Exit Windows.wav
- Logoff.wav
- Logon.wav
- Low Battery.wav
- MACSound.txt
- MACSound.zip
- Maximize.wav
- Menu Command.wav
- Menu Popup.wav
- Minimize.wav
- Move Menu.wav
- New Alert.wav
- New Mail.wav
- New Messages.wav
- Open.wav
- Person Join.wav
- Person Leave.wav
- Print Complete.wav
- Program Error.wav
- Question.wav
- Receive Call.wav
- Receive Request.wav
- Restore Down.wav
- Restore Up.wav
- Select.wav
- Show Toolbar.wav
- Start Navigation.wav
- Start Windows.wav
- System Notifi.wav
- Windows exit.wav
- Windows XP start.wav
Size: 2.0 Mb
Format: zip archive.
To install this sound scheme easily, extract all files into your C:WindowsMedia directory and refer to the following article: How to change Windows sounds.
Our Macs are where we work, where we socialize, and where we can enjoy ourselves and relax with music and films.
So it’s a little disappointing when the audio lets things down, whether that’s fuzzy sound, fluctuating volume levels, or being simply too low for us to fully appreciate it. Whatever the reason, there is always room for improvement to get the best audio quality from your computer. We’ve gathered a few ways to tweak sound quality on your Mac, including both hardware and software enhancements.
Speakers
There’s nothing like a decent speaker (or five) to truly get the best sound from your Mac. Arrange them around the room for a home cinema experience or dot them around the house to get great sound wherever you are. You can spend $100 or thousands depending on your budget, but for decent speakers, it’s worth spending more for that crisp, perfect sound.
Headphones
If you don’t want to be blasting Jay Z across the office while you work or treating your roommates to the glass-shattering screams in the latest horror flick, headphones are a discreet alternative.
Go tethered with a wire or cordless with Bluetooth, and the benefit of headphones is that they sit snug either in or over your ears to get truly immersive sound. One of their major advantages is that many now come with noise-cancelling technology, so there are no outside distractions to affect your listening.
Apps and Software
If buying new hardware isn’t in your budget, revitalizing your software is a more economical way of improving your Mac’s sound. In fact, updating your system forms a solid base for getting the best sound possible before it even reaches your external devices, making your Mac speakers or headphones sound even better.
iTunes Features
iTunes has some features of its own that can be used to improve iTunes sound quality, such as the Sound Enhancer under Playback Options. There are also additional aspects to better control audio playback.
Have you ever noticed that however loud your volume is set, some songs are quieter than others? Your songs may be sourced from multiple formats, such as CD rips, digital re-workings of LPs and cassettes, and live recordings, all of which are likely to vary in their sound quality and volume. Apart from having to manually readjust your volume to how loud you actually want to hear a song, it can be jarring to reassess your sound when it varies track by track.
iTunes has a Sound Check option, also under Playback Options, which evaluates the loudness of all the songs in your library and normalizes them to play back at the same volume. Since this doesn’t involve editing the songs, all of the files are unaffected when Sound Check is turned off.
Sound Equalizing
To get consistent sound throughout your system, it’s worth using a Mac equalizer software, such as Boom 3D, to level your audio library. Rather than affecting the individual files, Boom 3D is a system-wide software that not only equalizes your volume but enhances your sound output. It can also boost the volume of individual songs, and instead of editing the original file, it creates an enhanced copy, so you have both versions at your disposal. Take control of the bass and treble to customize your sound, or use standardized presets.
With Boom 3D, you can also control the volume of individual apps so that your background notifications don’t override your music, or to ensure the project you’re working on supersedes background audio.
Audio File Types
iTunes sells audio as AAC files at 256 kbps, which is better than their pre-2007 128 kbps bitrate but is still reduced from its optimum quality.
Some songs may have already been downloaded in the old, smaller format, so if you have the space, it would be worth re-downloading the files in the larger bitrate. Since people want the capability to hold thousands of songs, AACs are compressed for smaller file sizes, typically stripping away the subtlest of “irrelevant” background data that we can’t hear, which means that some of the complexities of the audio are lost.
If you have the space to handle large file sizes, it can be worth downloading your music in alternative formats, such as FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), which maintains the integrity of the original audio.
Mac doesn’t currently support FLAC files, but there are converters, such as Permute or iFlicks, or they can be played on an advanced multimedia player, Elmedia Player.
Co-Ordinated Method
To get the best sound possible from your Mac, it’s best to commit to two approaches in tandem: investing in effective sound gear, whether headphones, speakers, or both, and boosting your Mac’s sound performance with iTunes features and additional apps that promote loud yet clear sound. Equalizing your library’s playback volume as well as boosting the sound input and playing higher quality files all contribute to improving the sound quality on your Mac.