[Empeg-general] Re: Startup sound on ignition

[Tony Fabris]

I've never understood the desire to have a device make a boot-up sound. This is among the very first things I disable in any new Windows installation because I find it so irritating.

Remember that in your car, when you boot the player, it doesn't know what volume you want the player set to until after the player software has started. So any bootup sound will play at maximum volume, and you'd have to take that into account when creating the bootup sound.

If you really want to do this, I'm sure there are examples in the Developer Info section of the Riocar.org site of sound-player applets. Create your own init, and fire the applet in the init, and that will work. But I'm sure that after all the trouble, the novelty will wear off fast and you'll disable it within a few weeks.

Either that or you'll blow a speaker sometime when you plug in the player into your home system because you didn't know you had the volume turned up. Or the bootup sound will scare your date when you take her to the movies. Or some other thing will make you mad at the bootup sound and make you disable it...