Xounds Redux

Xounds Redux plays sounds from sound sets, but where can I get new sound sets to play, especially sound sets from Mac OS 8-Mac OS 9.2.2?

A: While we can’t redistribute sound sets for sounds we don’t own and/or can’t own, if you’re looking for Mac OS Classic Sound Sets to play with, look at the Macintosh Repository (not always up) or the Mac Classic websites. You’ll need to extract the StuffIt (.sit) archives with The Unarchiver. (Weirdly, StuffIt Expander hasn’t been able to expand StuffIt archives on macOS for 5 years or so.)

Xounds Redux 1.5 and later also support numerous other sound set formats:

You can download SoundPackager sound schemes* (.soundpack) from WinCustomize. SoundManager sound schemes* (.ths) are also supported. You can download those from their GitHub Repository. Xounds Redux additionally supports Windows 7+ theme packs (.themepack) and Windows 8+ theme packs (.deskthemepack) that contain sounds, but you’ll have to search the internets for those, we haven’t found a reliable website that isn’t the Microsoft Store only on Windows for those.

Furthermore, Xounds Redux supports freedesktop sound themes**, the kind KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Ubuntu use. You can find a selection of them in the KDE Store’s System Sounds category.

For keyboard sounds, you can grab royalty-free key press sounds from Canva’s Pixabay or import much, much more enhanced key press sound packs** from Mechvibe’s website.

* Note: Windows events and macOS events are very different with little overlap so you’ll probably need to set a macOS sound set and a Windows Sound Scheme in the System section of the Sound Sets tab in Xounds Redux’s settings to get full coverage.

** You can’t double-click these in the Finder to import these sound set formats, instead you must import a set’s folder, or the archive it comes in (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, or .zip) with the Import… button in the Sound Sets tab in Xounds Redux’s settings.

During the betas of Xounds Redux, there was a neat “click sparks” feature that showed little rainbow squircles. Where did it go?

A: It’s still there! You just have to enable it with the defaults command in the Terminal. First, quit Xounds Redux. Then enter this into the terminal:

defaults write com.totallynotmalicious.XoundsRedux XoundsShowsClickSparks -bool true

It should all be on one line, with no space between the “-” and “bool”. This tells the preferences infrastructure to store the setting, “XoundsShowsClickSparks,” with a value of true in the Xounds Redux domain (com.totallynotmalicioius.XoundsRedux).

Then relaunch Xounds Redux and you’ll see the click sparks option if you enable “Play sounds for all clicks” in Xounds Redux’s Settings window.

Have an issue not answered by the Xounds Redux FAQ? File an issue on the public GitHub Issue Tracker for Xounds Redux. If you’d rather contact us privately, please send an email to support@ this domain that this page is on.

FruitMenu Redux

Why doesn’t the “Paint Apple menu in six colors” option work properly with right-to-left languages?

We need more info to reproduce and fix the configuration, especially your primary language and whether menus are right-to-left in English if the app isn’t localized, or if unlocalized apps show menus left-to-right.

Have an issue not answered by the FruitMenu Redux FAQ? File an issue on the public GitHub Issue Tracker for FruitMenu Redux. If you’d rather contact us privately, please send an email to support@ this domain that this page is on.