Randomizing the Alert Sound on a Mac
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3 min readNov 1, 2021
Adding custom alert sounds to your mac is easy peasy (see Step 0). But after a while of having a specific snippet from this classic piece of Québécois culture, I got kinda bored with it. What if I could get a different “tabarnak” everyday? Or add a few of Homer Simpsons’ famous “D’ho!” in the mix?
Well, a tiny Python script and a single cron job is all I needed to get not only one custom alert sound…
