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I am using Ubuntu 19.04 with the default GNOME desktop. The Yaru theme is too quiet and I am trying to add some sound files to a new folder I created: /usr/share/sounds/MyTheme. The problem is, I am not sure what the naming convention is for the sound files to be detected for the system, and I have tried looking online with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Michael Clare
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    https://askubuntu.com/a/1105515/739431 may be related.. – PRATAP Jun 02 '19 at 17:17
  • Thank you. That is helpful, but doesn't seem to solve the problem completely (some sound files are named appropriately in the new theme but still do not work). – Michael Clare Jun 03 '19 at 23:25

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You could create a folder, for example in your home directory, called MyTheme. This directory should contain another directory called stereo and a file called index.theme. The index.theme file should contain the following: 

[Sound Theme]
Name=MyTheme 
Directories=stereo

[stereo]
OutputProfile=stereo

Next would be, that you paste your soundfiles to the stereo folder. The sound files should be *.oga, *.ogg, or *.wav, or *.sound (not sure about that) filetype. They have to be named like you can see here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/all/yaru-theme-sound/filelist

Next would be that you create a folder in you home directory called mytheme_1.0-1 with mkdir mytheme_1.0-1 and then you need some more subdirectories. You can create them with 

mkdir mytheme_1.0-1/usr 
mkdir mytheme_1.0-1/usr/share
mkdir mytheme_1.0-1/usr/share/sounds

Now you need to copy the directory you created first to the last subdirectory of the folder you created later with cp -r MyTheme mytheme_1.0-1/usr/share/sounds/ After that you need to create another subfolder called DEBIAN with 

mkdir mytheme_1.0-1/DEBIAN

and then you need to edit a file inside of that folder with 

gedit mytheme_1.0-1/DEBIAN/control

That file needs to contain something like:

Package: mytheme
Version: 1.0-1
Section: base
Priority: optional
Architecture: amd64
Depends: 
Maintainer: Your Name <you@email.com>
Description: MyTheme

Just save the file and run dpkg-deb --build mytheme_1.0-1 in your home directory. Now you need to install the package you created. You can do this with sudo dpkg -i mytheme_1.0-1.deb from your home directory. At last you can choose your sound theme using the gnome-tweak-tool. If you want to uninstall the package just run sudo apt purge mytheme.

Good luck

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    This links could help you to understand the naming convention for the sound files to be detected by the system: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-naming-spec.html also interesting: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html from here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/ –  Jun 01 '19 at 14:41
  • Thank you, Ill give this a try – Michael Clare Jun 01 '19 at 21:19
  • You should edit this answer, because the document you're linking to, no longer exists. That's also why it is better to include it in your answer instead of just linking. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Aug 29 '21 at 11:08