Choosing a custom ringtone after El Capitan
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Stewart Taylor
Nov 10, 2015, 4:46:21 PM11/10/15
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Hi Alexei
Brilliant application - it's changed how our office handles telephone calls.
One thing is that on two Macs running Yosemtite we had inserted a custom "Old Telephone.aiff" file into the System>Library>Sounds folder for our preferred ringtone. Upon upgrading one of the Macs to El Capitan that file was deleted and due to the new System Integrity Protection scheme employed by Apple we can't replicate this on the newer OS - unless we muck about in the Recovery Partition & Terminal...
Would it be possible to allow for a different folder that is user definable to be used for ringtone files?
Thanks
Stewart T
Brilliant application - it's changed how our office handles telephone calls.
One thing is that on two Macs running Yosemtite we had inserted a custom "Old Telephone.aiff" file into the System>Library>Sounds folder for our preferred ringtone. Upon upgrading one of the Macs to El Capitan that file was deleted and due to the new System Integrity Protection scheme employed by Apple we can't replicate this on the newer OS - unless we muck about in the Recovery Partition & Terminal...
Would it be possible to allow for a different folder that is user definable to be used for ringtone files?
Thanks
Stewart T
Alexei Kuznetsov
Nov 13, 2015, 12:46:44 PM11/13/15
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Hello Stewart,
Telephone searches all standard sound locations for ringtones. Yes, one of them is System/Library/Sounds. But as you noticed, files copied there are not guaranteed to survive the OS updates.
Another, and more recommended, location is the user’s Sounds directory located at ~/Library/Sounds. By default, the user’s Library is hidden, but you can easily open it by pressing Shift-Command-G in Finder and entering ~/Library/Sounds in the text field. This directory is less likely to be emptied on OS updates.
Alexei
Telephone searches all standard sound locations for ringtones. Yes, one of them is System/Library/Sounds. But as you noticed, files copied there are not guaranteed to survive the OS updates.
Another, and more recommended, location is the user’s Sounds directory located at ~/Library/Sounds. By default, the user’s Library is hidden, but you can easily open it by pressing Shift-Command-G in Finder and entering ~/Library/Sounds in the text field. This directory is less likely to be emptied on OS updates.
Alexei
Stewart Taylor
Nov 17, 2015, 12:47:05 PM11/17/15
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Hi Alexei
Excellent - thanks!
Stewart T
Excellent - thanks!
Stewart T
DavidAv
Jan 4, 2017, 11:14:35 PM1/4/17
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This doesn't seem to work on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. I have put a ringtone in the ~/Library/Sounds folder under my user account but it does not appear in the list of sounds in the Telephone preference panel.
Alexey Kuznetsov
Jan 5, 2017, 5:09:18 AM1/5/17
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Hello David,
Which file extension does it have? mp3 and m4a should work.
Alexey
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