Sounds

Play Mac sound

Gets the sound library from macOS, picks a random file, and plays it out loud.

Actions Used

Control Flow, Scripting

Stop shortcut

Stops execution of the current shortcut and dismisses the shortcut on screen. No more actions will be run after this action.

Device, Scripting

Play Sound

Plays the audio file passed as input, or a default notification sound if no audio file was passed.

Lists, Scripting

Get Item from List

Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.

Documents, File storage

Get Contents of Folder

This action gets the files inside of the specified folder. Recursive If this option is enabled, this action will get all the files inside of a folder, including its subfolders.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Play%20Mac%20sound

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Play%20Mac%20sound

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Play Mac sound” end tell

Membership

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