where are message sounds stored?

Hi,

System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources

This folder contains both the Alert folder and Ringtones you see in the Messages app.

9:11 PM Sunday; December 7, 2014

Note that adding tones to the Resources folder in ToneLibrary is not sufficient to have the tones you add populate in the list. You also need to edit a .plist file. Also, if you're talking about changing the default tone which you are not allowed to customize, you will need to go to Messages, right click, Show Package Contents, find the ringtone file and replace it. Both procedures are outlined in: Yosemite: Adding Ringtones and Alert Tones.

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Hi,

That extra info is useful to know.

Is it not playing this version though ?

9:26 PM Sunday; December 7, 2014

I just checked, and the preferences for Messages do let you choose a tone for the message received sound. So adding the tone to the folder and updating the property list file should do the trick, there is no need to change the default sound.

In some cases you can simply rename the file and change .aiff or whatever it is to .m4r. If the file doesn't work when you do this, use an online file conversion service.

Addition.

I have used GarageBand for cutting down longer items to make ringtones.

Flip4Mac allows you to play some sounds not normally played by Quicktime.

Quicktime itself has several Export options that might work.

History.

In the past iChat and versions of Messages up to an including Messages 8 in Mavericks listed some Sounds from Inside the App (In Application right click the app icon and then Show Package Contents and then navigate to resources)

Also in the drop down the change the sound were the System Alerts sounds.

Messages 7 and earlier also saw the ~/Library/Sounds folder.

Yosemite, which still calls the app Version 8, despite the significant changes, has totally changed the Sounds used in the app.

The ones within the app still, apply to the sound given to all the other actions, Buddy's coming On and going Off Line in Buddy Lists, the 'swoosh" like sound for Sending Messages and the like.

Now.

It does seem strange that Apple have two Sounds in different places (app and the Folder in the pic) in different formats that sound the same and essentially the same name.

Having said that neither appear in the list of sounds that can be played by the app for this particular function.

8:30 pm Monday; December 8, 2014