Custom Notification Sounds
I'm thinking of a feature where you can change your notification sounds (on Desktop) between the servers that you are a part of. Like let's say Server A has the original AIM sound effect*, and Server B has a sound effect from The Jetsons.
It's basically simple, and I'm sure this is a highly-requested feature among the Discord community.
*Sound effects could be changed via .mp3 files, .m4a files. etc., that you have on your computer.
EDIT: Also, would be nice to be able to have an AOL Instant Messenger-style feature where you hear a sound effect when you send a message. This sound effect should be completely optional and if you choose to enable the feature, it can be customized with the same method as aforementioned.
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100% Agree with OP. I came here trying to see if Discord had a way to change the notification sounds in its settings anywhere!
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Please please please. I don't even care about getting different sounds for different servers I just care about changing the default notification sound to one that doesn't make me want to commit murder every time I hear it.
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Yeah,
would be really nice to have something like teamspeak's buddy sounds for people you select. It sucks having people you don't necessarily know and really good friends have the same message/call sound.
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There a reason they can't actually acknowledge why this has been a requested feature for so long and they refuse to do it? I used to love their goofy patch notes every version. They obviously have their ear to the ground and know what people need... They speak their clients language, and understand what a good UI should look like.
Yet you can't move where DMs appear. You can't have them popup into their own window, or make them float. Something ICQ has done since the 90s. But this right here, is such a HUGE, HUGE problem, for anyone with many servers, it just dwarfs all that.
I literally miss DMs for hours, notifications from groups for days, because they all sound the same. All of them. It's maddening, to know every single IM ever made has this feature and not Discord. Teamspeak and Ventrilo do this out of the box! ... I mean, why?
You guys want to make this a nitro feature? Is that it? Go for it. You can't blame people for wanting to use better APIs and then choke them on options. That's a backward way to go about it. All it will do is inspire competition, and don't think it isn't possible... you guys weren't here forever. Bigger IM platforms have fallen than this.
Oh and quite frankly, the sound is terrible. It's so easy to ignore. Yeah, I get it, you guys want to be iconic. If you hear it on someones laptop or phone people go "Oh they're using Discord" just like Messengers PING sound. Guess what, stop being so vain. Isn't it enough that people use, and love your platform? Wouldn't making people happy, and being flexible, strengthen your brand just as well if not more than some weak attempt at standardizing trademarks? What platform ever died because of something this ridiculous? People came to Discord because of the flexibility it offered. Don't go all Skype on us ffs.
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Honestly, I just want it so when someone leaves my channel, it says "User has left your channel" like in teamspeak. I always thought that was funny.
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Pls Discord
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Crazy how much traction this got and it hasn't been implemented yet, while there was a suggestion that had 24 likes and got implemented. Hopefully Discord notices the desire for custom notification sounds! :(
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Implement server notification settings like ex:
User Join - MomGetTheCamera.mp3
User Leave - HeWasBadAnyway.wavSomething like this would really feel unique to every discord user even it might be the minority. But then again, everyone's cell phones have different ringtones don't they?
Either way. I'd love to see something like this added. Whether allowing you to change your notifications as a server-side notification or client-side. Some more customization is always appreciated.
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Just here to bolster numbers, I've also emailed the discord feedback team directly, since the requests for this on the site seem to be largely ignored.
When you have multiple users with Discord in the same area (or you're watching a YouTuber who uses it and leaves the notification sound in their videos) it is basically impossible to know, without checking, who the notification was even for. Even just offering a few preset options for the default notification sound would be a decent solution to this. Obviously fully allowing people to choose or provide their own default notification tone would be the best solution.
The ideas for call join and leave sounds customization sounds neat too!4 -
Please add this feature! I start hearing ghost notifications when there's nothing there! Need a new sound!
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would be great if it was a nitro feature, money's worth.
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Fantastic idea!
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Здравствуйте.
Я думаю, что было бы здорово если бы я мог настроить звуки:
1. Если кто-то входит на сервер в котором я сижу.
2. Если кто-то входит в голосовую комнату в которой я сижу.
3. Разные звуки сообщений для текущего канала (сервера) и других.
Спасибо.2 -
This feature would be amazing. It would be perfect if you could separate sounds per channel as well for support channels etc that you need to keep on top of. At the moment the only option i know of is to disable all other channel notifications which isn't ideal.
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+1 for this
Some channels I need to know if I got a notification right away, while others I'd like a notification but only if I'm not busy.
I also would like to know if it's someone trying to reach me, or just my bot alerting me.
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+1
My company is switching from Slack to Discord for work chats, but not being able to distinguish between work servers and play servers by sound is very frustrating.
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at least they could add another set of sounds with a voice instead of all-the-same beeps XD
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I think that this would be an amazing feature! I think it would be great if you could at least customize the sounds only you can hear. For example, when someone leaves or is added onto a server or group call. I don't believe it would be an issue if you could just customize your own sounds. Customizing the background would also be amazing and just editing how the appearance is in general.
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We should also have an option to customise what notifications you're hearing based on what you've been notified for. For example, normal messages should be distinct from direct pings. You should be able to tell when someone DM'd you. I find it outrageous that I have to scramble to find which server I got a message from, whether it was a ping or not, and the importance of said ping. This isn't a hard ask at all.
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Maybe they can make some like teamspeak, with a group of sounds that the user can choose.
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I would really like that feature too, this is not so hard to implement.
We have to be able to distinguish "work" and "hobbies" servers more easily, not all of them requiring the same degree of attention.
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We need this!
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+1 Would be great to have the customisability to change default notification sounds especially for incoming calls.
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+1 Please Discord
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How is this not a thing yet.1 -
It is such an obviously useful feature... both for users and for developers!
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stop ignoring this simple request. Just coming out and saying "we'll think about it now shut up" would be something at least .
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Really bugs me this hasn't been added yet.
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I wish this was a feature... *sees 2 years ago*
My mom uses discord and I just want to have a different sound when she messages me versus my friends sending memes, I felt it was such a simple feature that I found this post trying to look up how to do it since I just ASSUMED it would be part of discord if you pay for it2 -
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I would love to be able to customize my own notifications.
After noticing they added the April Fools sound packs for notifications I don't know why they haven't thought to implement the ability to make custom ones already.
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