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How do I change the calendar alert sound?

I have selected sound to play every time I receive a calendar alert but how do I select a sound to one of my choosing? Repeatedly I have selected "Glass" in prefs/sound but each calendar alert I get it defaults to "Basso". How can I save my selection? Thank you.

Hey MiqsPix,

Try this → Calendar (Yosemite): Change the default alert settings for events

Let me know if it works,

Cheers !

Thanks, but no. That is a basic guide to enable sounds to an alert. I have already done as said but want to change the default sound to one of my choosing. Perhaps it is not possible do this. Incidentally I am running Sierra not Yosemite so will this be relevant? I guess it's not that important but still annoying!

There's no GUI setting you can change. I doubt there's a Terminal command but I've been surprised before.

Ok .... but seems a retrograde step in my opinion as I was able to do this when using OSX Lion some years ago. You could choose whichever sound you wanted to any Mac event, Calendar or otherwise.

Aw sorry, I did not understand it !

Well, running Sierra or Yosemite will not be relevant in this situation.

And as Dialabrain said, there's no Terminal command to do such a thing. Sounds are hidden in deep locations.

This works because the Calendar and Reminders both rely the system sound "Basso" as their default alert sound.

That sound is located in /System/Library/Sounds and is called Basso.aiff

Here's an unofficial solution to fix the issue:

1. Delete Basso.aiff

2. Find a better alert sound

3. Change the name of the sound to, "Basso" and convert it to AIFF so it should now be called, "Basso.aiff"

4. Move the file to /System/Library/Sounds

5. Restart the computer

6. Now your default alarm for Calendar and Reminders has a great sound.

Hope this will help,

Cheers !

Thanks for the idea iDriss_5555. Just tried it and got the following: “Basso.aiff” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS. But I tried

As you found out, stuff inside /System cannot be modified. This is an important security feature, part of System Integrity Protection (SIP). This can be turned off but you really shouldn't.

Use feedback to make a feature request:

https://www.apple.com/feed

Create an event in calendar on a date .

Click on alert > custom.