Okay, I could use some help with a new mini project. Here is what I am trying to do.
As a consumer, I want the ability to record phone conversations on my MBP which uses VOIP.
Legally, I can do this if I add an audio beep to the call - like when you call your bank.
I have recorded a beep playing every 10 seconds and turned it into an mp3.
Now I need a quick and easy way to launch that soundtrack whenever I place a call, say to Customer Service at some large scummy corporation.
Originally my Mac was set up to play mp3's in iTunes, but for whatever reason when I launched the beep track I would get music or a radio station, and that is the last thing I want to occur on a call! And I don't want to necessarily change iTunes as the default since I have lots of mp3 that I do want to listen to on iTunes.
So here is what I would ideally like...
1.) Create some shortcut in the Dock so with a quick double-click, the track starts playing.
2.) Ideally I would like that specific mp3 to play in some other player that I don't regularly use so I don't end up with it playing a radio station or some song i was listening to before.
3.) When I double-click, I want the track to immediately start playing. (For some reason QuickTime won't do that.)
4.) I need the player to be set to "loop" by default and stay that way, because my beep track is only 10 minutes. (Again, QuickTime makes me manually choose "loop" each time which is a pain!)
The end goal is I need something quick and easy, because if someone calls me or I call them, I need a way to be able to record instantly and the last thing you want to do in such a situation is fumble around or forget to do something and not hve the beep for the whole call.
What I want must be easy to do for you Mac genuises, but my attempts haven't come out so well.
Thanks.
As a consumer, I want the ability to record phone conversations on my MBP which uses VOIP.
Legally, I can do this if I add an audio beep to the call - like when you call your bank.
I have recorded a beep playing every 10 seconds and turned it into an mp3.
Now I need a quick and easy way to launch that soundtrack whenever I place a call, say to Customer Service at some large scummy corporation.
Originally my Mac was set up to play mp3's in iTunes, but for whatever reason when I launched the beep track I would get music or a radio station, and that is the last thing I want to occur on a call! And I don't want to necessarily change iTunes as the default since I have lots of mp3 that I do want to listen to on iTunes.
So here is what I would ideally like...
1.) Create some shortcut in the Dock so with a quick double-click, the track starts playing.
2.) Ideally I would like that specific mp3 to play in some other player that I don't regularly use so I don't end up with it playing a radio station or some song i was listening to before.
3.) When I double-click, I want the track to immediately start playing. (For some reason QuickTime won't do that.)
4.) I need the player to be set to "loop" by default and stay that way, because my beep track is only 10 minutes. (Again, QuickTime makes me manually choose "loop" each time which is a pain!)
The end goal is I need something quick and easy, because if someone calls me or I call them, I need a way to be able to record instantly and the last thing you want to do in such a situation is fumble around or forget to do something and not hve the beep for the whole call.
What I want must be easy to do for you Mac genuises, but my attempts haven't come out so well.
Thanks.
