Why does DiddleBug use the standard alarm sound instead of the one I selected?
There may be three reasons for this behavior: • You recently installed GeekSounds and did not re-set your alarm sounds. You might think that this does not matter, as GeekSounds contains all the standard Palm sounds, but unfortunately, PalmOS (and thus DiddleBug) remembers sounds by an internal ID and not their name. This means that after you installed GeekSounds, the IDs stored by DiddleBug pointed to non-existing records. When DiddleBug tried to use the designated alarm tone, the OS returned an error and the program used its fallback: the default alarm sound. Solution: re-select the various alarm sounds in the Preferences and/or Alarm Details dialogs. • You have read this FAQ up until reason 1.) and re-set all the various alarms, but DiddleBug still ignores your settings. In this case, you installed the MIDI database from GeekSounds, but it didn’t overwrite the default system MIDI database because it didn’t have the right name for your version or language of PalmOS. In version 2.1 of
