I was so pleased to see I could replace the standard alarm wav files on my Microsoft Surface with custom alarm wav files of the same name (C:\Windows\Media\Alarm01.wav). Who wouldn’t want to hear their cat meow every time a dental appointment looms on the horizon? Or hear their cute little one shout “Chwweeerios” on birthdays?
However, I am a little puzzled as to why the capability to record simple wav files is no longer standard within the Windows environment (example: Sound Recorder). The only thing I can find standard on the Microsoft Surface for audio recording is the Voice Recorder and it only records in the m4a format. So of course if I use the Voice Recorder to record my rabbit snorting like a pig I will now need to download additional software to convert the m4a file to a wav file and then place the wav file here to replace an existing alarm wav file: C:\Windows\Media.
This entire process is fine for me but it is too time consuming and complex for our business users and even if they were willing to do it, I am not keen on introducing a third party product for something that does something so mundane as converting a m4a to a wav, it would need to do more like also bake chocolate cakes or somehow make my pale skin a pretty tan color.
Coding Under the Stars 