Tdesktop: Change sounds and volume

[shirishag75]

Hi all,
telegram has a specific sound for notifications and calls. At times it's ok, at others it's loud and not so helpful. It would be nice if we were able to specify our own sounds (or music pieces or whatever) and it would play them to notify whenever a new message comes.

Similarly, the notifications have a certain volume for which one has to constantly change the speaker volume so it doesn't disturb people at times. It would be nice if there was some sort of UI within telegram itself which would take care of it.

[Aokromes]

Maybe a good idea can be also allow to choice "silent times", for example allow choice don't make sounds from 22h to 6 and from 12 to 2.
ofc exceptions can be added ie always make sound even on silent times never make sound.

[pvnhome]

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[navjotjsingh]

+1

[Sushubh]

The actual sound file is very blunt. I can probably control the volume through the app specific volume slider in Windows but that does not solve the core issue for me with it. So ability to change it to something more pleasant would be very nice.

[Aokromes]

Maybe something like this can be added:
http://i.imgur.com/OmppfhG.png

[6r0m]

Please add change a sound, I hearing one the same sound about a year. It's so annoying. I'm already hate it)

[Trost123]

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[BoffinBrain]

I support this feature. Even the terrible web client has a volume control setting for notifications:

[abhigenie92]

Please add it. :)

[Trost123]

Well, if in 3 years it's still not implemented, might aswell use cutegram.

[Bluscream]

thanks for the tip with cutegram, definitly going to check that one out :)

[Trost123]

@Bluscream Glad I could help someone.

[snowinmars]

Colleagues and I use Telegram channel as a aggregator. All ci/cd messages, all exceptions from prod fires in the channel.
As a user I want to separate notifications from my job chats with real humans and from my job aggregator chat.
It could be achieved by setting to the aggregator channel a special sound.

[pmarrapese]

Oh, whoa. Apparently this has been essentially already implemented!

1. Go to settings
2. Type: msg_incoming
3. Choose your desired notification sound
4. Restart the client. 🎉

[BoffinBrain]

2. Type: **msg_incoming**

What the heck is this witchcraft? Indeed it works, but it's like entering a cheat code. No indication anything's happening until you type the last letter, and then the file dialog pops up. Couldn't they just, you know, add a visible menu item for this?

[snowinmars]

1. Go to settings

Go to what settings? I don't have any search field in the main settings menu, and the 'cheat-code-like' style doesn't work too for me.

[Trost123]

1. Go to settings

Go to what settings? I don't have any search field in the main settings menu, and the 'cheat-code-like' style doesn't work too for me.

You open the sidebar in the telegram window, there is a "Settings" menu item there. You click it. Make sure that you have english keyboard layout on. Start typing "msg_incoming" as if you're typing a cheatcode. You'll see no change until you typed everything. When you're done - a default windows file selector will appear.
Gosh, I don't even need this feature and it took me 10 sec to figure it out.

[keerah]

so, when will this hack for gruops and channels come?

[tooomm]

I would like to disable call notifications on desktop completely.
Also, an option to only silence them would be nice!

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[BoffinBrain]

Yes, we still want it.

[willy666rumster]

cheatcode not work in version from snapd, instead apt buster-backports