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What Just Pinged Me?

What Just Pinged Me?

Sep 14, 2026 Other

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What Just Pinged Me?

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My wife kept getting some random-seeming notification sounds on her macbook that we couldn't identify - a little quarter second "bloop" that would play and then go away without any trace we could find.So I made (prompted) this app that will listen to the audio on the system and identify the sound. It will identify system sounds and use system logs to try to work out what caused it, it will tell you which apps were making sounds when the sound is played, it will look in app bundles for sound files that contain the sound it heard.If the source is the web browser and you install the bundled browser extensions it will tell you the name of the tab that played it.

Comments (3)

Jarvis Skiles Jarvis Skiles 2 weeks ago

Fixed the quarter second bloop, perfect!

Marcus Hamill Marcus Hamill 2 weeks ago

sounds kinda annoying, what's causing those random bloops? seems like a software bug or something.

Judy Rogahn Judy Rogahn 1 week ago

sounds like a classic case of random macbook gremlins, good luck figuring out what’s causing those annoying bloops.