How to add a custom alert sound in Unity

Question

I am using Ubuntu 14.04. How to add custom alert sound in Ubuntu Unity ?

Note: my question is not how to play music via terminal. I can use play command from sox package.

Also not make-a-sound-once-process-is-complete

For better clarity this link may be useful add-your-custom-alert-sound-for.html

Answer 1

Personally I would use aplay /path/to/file as notification when a command is done with command && aplay /path/to/file, but there are multiple other options to do so. Check out these

• https://superuser.com/q/276596/418028
• https://askubuntu.com/a/316048/295286
• http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-play-music-from-command-line-terminal/