Notification of new Mail messages from iTunes?

The guys at O'Reilly's Macdevcenter are pretty darn cool, but this latest tip is just a little strange to me: Robert Daeley has written an applescript that makes iTunes play a song upon notification of new mail, or any other criteria you can build a Mail rule from. Through some simple editing, you're able to choose a track, a playlist and even a specific portion of a song to play – not just the beginning. He also applies the mobile phone term of "ringtones" to this new invention of his, which makes me worry that we'll see a flurry of new, expensive "email ringtone" sites. If 'email ringtones' do happen though, you heard it here first (I think), and Daeley is the one to blame.

This kinda sounds like a bit of overkill to me though, as you can just place any good ol' fashioned sound file in your ~/Library/Sounds folder in order to use them in the various OS X apps that can use sound alerts for stuff like this. No script, no fuss and certainly no muss. (What is muss, anyway?) Big props to Robert though, as the applescript does look well-written and easy to edit.

[via Hawk Wings]