How to change your Alert Sound

Hi folks,

I post this hoping it will be of interest to some members. I was tired myself of the same boring alert, so I searched for a way to use some of my favorite mp3 files to replace the "alert.wav" file in metatrader.

Plan A.

Here are the steps I used.

1. Download a freeware or trial version of a mp3 to wav converter.
2. convert the song you want to use to Wav format
3. rename that song to "alert"
4. backup your original alert wav file
5. replace your original alert file with your newly created wav file.

Plan B.

Visit some of the many free download sites for wav files online. Find a few you like (fog horn, ambulance siren, laughing baby...etc) and rename them to alert, and then replace your metatrader alert with that one.

You will find your sounds folder somewhere like this on your computer
C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 4\sounds

It may not be exactly that, depending on the version of metatrader your are using

Here is the link I used to get my converter

http://www.goodeasy.net/download/amc.exe

The author of that software is apparently Christley and he kindly posted a free serial for some users to try, so to the best of my knowledge, this is not pirated software, but a gift from the software developer himself. And, HEY!...I might be wrong about that. So, dont shoot me if I am. If you are really worried, buy it at the homepage which you can find in the Help file of the program itself.

See attachment for serial.txt

No need to name the new files Alert.wav. There's an Events tab in options that allows you to specify the sound to use for various events.

Also... you can play just about any sound you like with the PlaySound() function.

thank you Telsa for your simpler version . As is obvious, Im not a coder as you obviously are by your signature.

i tried changing the alert sound from the tools option from alert.wav to chime.wav from the pulldown (since i already had pasted it into the sounds folder), but the events didnt save it as chime.wav, it put it right back as the alert.wav file.

Hi.

I have the same problem when I changed the alert.
Is there any way to fix it?

Thank you

Watch this video and it shows the steps to do this.
In the interim once you get to events, click on "CHOOSE OTHER..." at the top of the drop down menu.
Then go to your custom alert folder and pick your desire alert. That's it.