Custom Notification Sounds Released
Posted by Alexis Dolle on April 7, 2016
Alexis Dolle
Head of Growth
Analyzes data, eats data, drinks data, lives for data and helps the Mailbird team to build a more awesome experience.
Published on April 7, 2016
Introducing Customizable Notification Sounds for Mailbird
We are 3 weeks into our month-long hackathon and we’ve already put some heavy work into features like our upcoming contact sync. As a side project, a couple of our developers wanted to offer a quick improvement they felt many of our users would enjoy as we continue working on our large/major features coming down the line.
Mailbird is all about customization. Layout, color, font… And now, you can even customize how it sounds!
Starting today, all Mailbird users will find the ability to choose a new notification sound in the Mailbird options menu under the “General” tab.
In the menu, you will find a few options to choose from including the default “Chirp” notification sound.
Upload your own sound
At the bottom of the dropdown, you’ll see “Custom…”.
Selecting this will allow you to upload any .mp3 or .wav file that is less than 1 MB in size.
Where can you get the sounds? Anywhere. Cut them from your favorite songs, record your daughter’s first words. The possibilities are endless.
If you need some help finding a few good sounds, we’ve collected some great sites that allow you to download a bunch of good options.
http://soundbible.com/tags-alert.html
https://soundcloud.com/nokia-design-team/sets
https://appraw.com/ringtones/notification-sound
http://gallery.mobile9.com/c/notifications/1/
https://www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/notification-music-box-stingers-short.html
Don’t see the custom notification sounds option?
You may need to update to the latest version of Mailbird. Visit the options menu, click on about, and select check for updates.
If you are still having trouble finding the options, our support team is always here to help out.
Need help creating or uploading your custom sound?
Trying to create a custom sound from a video? Want to convert a YouTube video clip to an audio file? Leave a comment below on what you are trying to convert and our staff and readers can help you find the easiest way to get your custom sound into Mailbird.
Alexis Dolle
Head of Growth
Analyzes data, eats data, drinks data, lives for data and helps the Mailbird team to build a more awesome experience.
Published on April 7, 2016
Hi, is it possible to have custom email notification sounds yet for each of our email accounts? I would love this feature to now have been implemented.
Thanks
Hello Caroline! I am afraid that’s not possible at the moment but we are considering expanding notification customisations in the future, this one seems to be a great candidate! 🙂 Thanks!
Hi, Any update on this? I just tried Mailbird and loving everything, but this is a must for me. I have a junk account that gets emails all day long. Notifications for that need to be very different from my work account.
Hello Sean, thanks for the question. I ma afraid that we do not have a custom or account based notifications available at the moment. Thanks for the interest though!
+1 over here from another user. This is an absolute must 🙂
Keep up the good work;
Thanku so much.
So amazing informatio thanks for sharing
I’d like to customize the sound for each specific email account. I might have 5 different emails on the mailbird client and I want 4 of them to have different notification sounds and one of them to not have a tone at all. Would be much more productive if I only opened my email when certain email inboxes get emails instead of checking it every single time a notification tone is played only to see it was some crap from amazon.
Hi Alex, thanks for reaching out. That is unfortunately not possible yet. Please feel free to reach out in case of any more questions:-)
Can we do it yet? How about delayed email sending (no server side pass through) but we were talking about requiring the application to be running on local computer for delayed email sending to work.
Thanks for sharing these sites sounds, now I know where to download sounds, very good !
Is there a way to customize sounds by email account ? For example “New Work Email” , “New Yahoo Mail”…etc..
yes you can do it,
corel draw Key
Glad the notification sounds were implemented before I joined, keep up the good work!
The English UK dictionary needs to be added ASAP!
Now only missing option for upload my own image for contacts
You can do that now Rafal:-) We have launched our new contact manager w/ contact sync. Simply update your Mailbird and check it out. Feel free to reach out in case of any questions or feedback:-) https://www.getmailbird.com/new-contact-manager-contact-sync/