Missing the old sounds?
February 16, 2007 on 12:30 pm | In Features |
Some of you have mentioned it here on the blog and many more have written into customer care about it. You miss the old Messenger sounds and want them back. Ok, we heard you!
Now you can download and restore the old sounds like the creaking door, doorbell, classic chime and more. Once you’ve downloaded and put them in your Messenger sounds folder, you can go into Preferences and assign the sounds you want for different functions.
Click here for complete instructions
We also added an “Old Messenger sounds” link in the Downloads section here on the blog.
Sound good?
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
When are you guys going to update the mac client to use Voice. My wife is refusing to let me by an Apple computer until that happens.
Comment by Michael — February 16, 2007 #
Hah!
Sorry for ya dude!
Ya Yahoo! You should totally update to Beta 2. It’s been quite a while now.
Comment by Lucky — February 16, 2007 #
Just wanted to say,love Yahoo,and my daughter does our favorite site.Couldn’t live without my yahoo messenger.keep up good work.
Comment by Stella Singh — February 17, 2007 #
hi 2all happy valentines 2 all
Comment by crazylil_nick14 — February 17, 2007 #
hey hope ya’ll had a good valentines!!!!!
Love ya alway!,
*Danica*
Comment by Danica Gomez — February 17, 2007 #
Old is Gold
! And you just proved that right … kudos to Y! IM Team
Cheers,
Dreamchaser
Comment by Dreamchaser — February 17, 2007 #
heyyy i l♥ves this
Comment by cc — February 17, 2007 #
i just love dis website and evry thing about it meeting new pplz and evry thing it so much fun and evry one i talk to is so nice thanks to every one that talks to me and a big thanks to yahoo
Comment by Deija — February 18, 2007 #
this is the website ever invented!!!!!!
Comment by kelc — February 18, 2007 #
it would be nice 2 get help with this thing ????????
Comment by b.s. — February 18, 2007 #
i like the new sounds now but hey could you please remove the flash ad’s from the newer builds of yahoo messnger and the vista version to cuz they annoy and are fugly
Comment by catherine — February 18, 2007 #
Catherine, use YTK Lite or YTK Pro to hide the ads. http://www.ytkpro.com
Comment by Venom — February 18, 2007 #
Sarah, are we going to have an update soon for voice in Vista?
Comment by Venom — February 18, 2007 #
Hi
If you want an easier way to get your old sounds back (and have the flexibility to change individual sounds from old/new at a button press) you can get WackyB-Sounds Toggle here:
http://www.wackyb.co.nz/option,com_remository/Itemid,3894/func,fileinfo/id,12
Best thing is different users sharing the same pc can have their preference of new/old sounds, it does not change the sounds for all the users as the yahoo download does
OR… you can just turn off the yahoo sounds and use the plugin:
http://gallery.yahoo.com/apps/513
you can use the old/new/custom sounds not only for all your contacts.. but assign different sounds for each user and each action + speech (have the status changes spoken to you) + more..
- Andy
Comment by Andy — February 18, 2007 #
I would like to know why my Yahoo! Messenger has stopped working since I installed Windows Vista home premium ? It used to work fine on Windows XP.
Whenever I try to login it gives me the same login error, to try signing in again.
I installed and tried using Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239.
While searching on the net I found on ‘Yahoo! Answers’ a few other people had the same problem, none of the answers given seem to help solve the problem.
Any information on when Yahoo! Messenger for Vista be released ?
This is very frustrating as I am not able to communicate with my friends on Yahoo! at all, and is left with no other option but to use other chat services for the same.
Comment by Rick — February 19, 2007 #
i haven’t upgraded yet, i’m too scared. i’ve heard nothing but bad things about Yahoo’s msg upgrade.
several of my friends have gotten it and told me it S***.
and i dont dare to get the upgrade cuz if it goes wrong i might lose contact with family and friends that live far from me.
Comment by Heather — February 19, 2007 #
yeah, I’d like the old sound, it’s familiar. New sounds bring me he feeling of strange!thx
Comment by Bosun — February 19, 2007 #
Thanks, I am glad this is back. With the new sound it is tough to put “which to where”.
Comment by Pus — February 20, 2007 #
Maybe while you are at it you can fix plugins so they work or so i can remove them - “NEW” 8.1 Messenger looks pretty but is slower and less configurable than it should be - One step forward six steps back - you guys are getting as bad as Microsoft
Comment by ROBO — February 21, 2007 #
Hi ROBO,
Not sure what issues you’re having with plug-ins, but if you want to remove one from your Messenger window, click the triangle in the plug-in’s header that’s on the right side. Choose “Close” from the menu. This will remove the plug-in from your window.
To uninstall a plug-in, click the “Add Plug-ins” button near the bottom of your Messenger window. This will open up the Plug-in Manager with “My Plug-ins” tab selected. To uninstall a plug-in, click the garbage can next to its listing.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — February 21, 2007 #
I already installed the old messenger just to have the old sounds back. I copied them to my archive and then later I installed the new Yahoo.
You have to be inventive after begging Yahoo so many times for having back the old sounds. Finally now they answered a lot of peoples desire.
Thanks anyway.
Comment by Cath — February 27, 2007 #
Thank you so much for the old sounds! I was wondering what happened to them. =)
Comment by Celia — March 1, 2007 #
will you be having brand new sounds in the vista verson? if your still tring tpo get the sounds in, may i sugest get these ones in, but may be tweak them a bit…. make them sound a bit more mordern but not losse the clasic theme of them.
Comment by chris — March 30, 2007 #
old yahoo alerts are much more exciting
Comment by grace — March 8, 2008 #
I love those sounds … infact It reminds me the old memories in yahoo
when there was user rooms … the time that user rooms had 500 people capacity it was really wonderful days and I hope one day will again user rooms open up
Comment by NAVID — July 31, 2008 #