Can't identify certain sounds -- brand new MBA user

[thisismetcalf]

Hi all,

I'm a new Apple computer user (longtime device user) and cannot ID a couple sounds coming from my MBA. They happen at times where no use is occurring. I may be on Safari reading online, but not clicking, scrolling or downloading anything - then a sound happens. It's always the same sound, as if something is being sent, like an e-mail, text or something.

Anyway, I review the sounds in the Sound menu's of System Preferences, but none of them are the right sound.

How can I ID the sound and identify why it's happening?

There is another sound as well I cannot ID, but it happened only once.

 

[stayley]

How about Skype? If you have it running in the background it makes a sound when someone comes online. This took me a while to figure out (it didn't do it on Windows).

 

[DEG1]

I know the sound you are hearing and I have never figured it out. Yes, it also does the same thing when someone logs into Skype, but also when Skye is not even running.

 

[MatsSkoe]

Same here!

How about Skype? If you have it running in the background it makes a sound when someone comes online. This took me a while to figure out (it didn't do it on Windows).

That Skype sound kept me also wondering the first 1-2 weeks. It drove me nuts, until eventually I found the cause.