How do I save a sound effect from an Outlook email?

Factual Questions
1

So I got this email in MS Outlook at work. It is in HTML format. There is a bitmap image, and a sound effect of a baby laughing that immediately activates when you open the email. My co-worker wants me to save the sound effect to use with some presentation or other.

I don’t know how to do this. There are no attachments to the email that I can save separately. I right clicked and saved the picture, thinking it was some kind of animation with sound, but Windows opens that file with MS Photo Editor and and AFAICT there is no sound attached to it. I look at “View Source” and didn’t see any filename that looked like an audio file.

Any thoughts?

2

Can you run the Windows sound recorder (which I think is still installed by default as part of Windows) or install something like Audacity on this PC? If so, you should be able to launch the recording program, tell it to start recording, then open the e-mail. After the soudn you want stops playing, you can return to the recording program, stop it, trim down to just what you want to keep, and save it.

3

Thanks, I was able to do this on my home computer using Windows Sound Recorder with sound off a web page, so I will try with the email at work tomorrow.

Thanks! I expect this to work so long as our IS dept. has left that program on the computer. I do not have rights to install any software at work.

4

Well, it’s getting it from somewhere. What do you see exactly when you pull up the source? It might be embedded in another .html or XML type thing similar to this.

Another way that you might get the sound file, check your temporary internet files (assuming you’re using IE at work on W2k, XP) under ‘C:\Documents and Settings\user_ID\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files’, sort by type and look for .wav, .mp3, or .snd files.