HELP! How to upload sounds for Themes?

[papito1]

I just got a Powershot SD200, I love it! As I was exploring the camera's features, I noticed that it has sounds theme settings and changeable shutter, timer, operation, and startup sounds. I also learned that you can upload your own sounds to the camera via the included Canon Utilities (Canon CameraWindow on Mac).

My problem is that I have followed the instructions to the letter for the sound files (.WAV, 8bit, mono, 8 or 11kHz, .3 or .4 seconds repsectively), but they absolutely refuse to upload to the camera. I get an error message stating, "Couldn't write to the camera since the sound data does not meet the following conditions. "8bit, 11.025KHz,Mono, .3second" or "8bit,8KHz,Mono, .4seconds". This is so frustrating because my WAV files DO meet the criteria. I even grabbed some of the WAV files that came with the camera and compared them to the ones I created. They have the same properties.

I've tried using different sound utilities to create my sounds on both my Mac and a PC, but nothing seems to work. This is so frustrating. Has anyone ever managed to upload .WAV files to use with the Canon themes?

Thanks for any help.

[Tremendo]

Without even reading the manual, I quickly set my SD300 to turn on with my son's voice saying "Daddy" and a picture of a jet ski jump I did. Granted, I recorded the audio directly onto the SD300, and took a picture of the photo I wanted as start up.

Try letting the camera record the audio.

[papito1]

Thanks Tremendo. Just curious though...did you have to record a movie to get your sound to record or did you record a voice memo for an image?

[Tremendo]

Pretty sure I recorded it at the setup page for sound options.