Photo Booth - Custom Sound Effect?

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Photo Booth - Custom Sound Effect?

Is there any way I can set Photo Booth to play a custom sound effect each time a photo is taken rather than the default shutter sound?

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Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 10, 2010 4:21 PM

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mns579

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Jan 11, 2010 6:20 AM in response to Samz2

Work with a COPY of Photo Booth.app so that you can revert to the original behavior if you don't like the results.

Under Leopard, it's a simple matter of digging into Photo Booth.app and replacing the shutter sound-- /Applications/Photo Booth.app/Contents/Resources/photo_shutter.aiff -- with another short AIFF of the same name and in the same format (8 bit, mono, 8 KHz).

Replace photo_shutter.aiff with any sound you choose. You do have to give it the same name so that the program can find it.

Snow Leopard has tightened up code-signing. The above modification will probably break the app under SL, though it does work under Leopard.

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Jan 11, 2010 1:56 PM in response to mns579

I'm running Snow Leopard and when I dig into the app I can't locate the sound file. I searched the whole Contents folder and there's only one .aiff located in the Resources folder. It's called action.aiff and it's a simple click sound, not a shutter. Is it possible the file isn't located in the same place in SL?

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mns579

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Jan 11, 2010 4:29 PM in response to Samz2

You're correct, that AIFF is missing from SL's Photo Booth. I don't know where it has gone. A peek at the underlying code suggests that Apple has made a lot of under-the-hood changes in the current version of PB. There are many references to things such as "PBUISoundEffect" that weren't in Leopard's PB, so I suspect the sound may now be stored somewhere outside the PB package itself.

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