Plaidophile: A better alarm clock sound

August 13, 2009

A better alarm clock sound (geekery)

by fluffy at 10:27 AM

So, the Android alarm clock is pretty good, but it has the problem that all the built-in sounds are rather hostile and invasive and just plain loud. Fortunately, it turns out that it's pretty easy to install your own mp3 alarm sounds — simply make a folder "alarms" (all lowercase) on the SD card and put your mp3s in there. So I made a very simple, gentle, ease-you-into-waking up sound which is just a simple sinewave chime that goes every 30 seconds, which you can grab right here.

Comments

#12328 Neillparatzo 08/13/2009 11:14 am

My Nokia N78 plays alarm MP3s with gradually increasing volume by default. (Not that I'm apologizing for Symbian in any way.)

#12329 fluffy

08/13/2009 12:48 pm

Yeah, older Sony Ericsson phones did that too. I'm sure someone will make a replacement alarm clock for Android eventually but all the ones I've seen so far just kind of suck.