🔊 MCP Make Sound

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides comprehensive sound playback capabilities for macOS. This server allows AI assistants and other MCP clients to play system sounds, text-to-speech, and custom audio files for rich audio feedback.

✨ Features

• 🔔 Simple Sound Methods: Pre-configured info, warning, and error sounds

• 🎵 Custom System Sounds: Play any of the 14 built-in macOS sounds

• 🗣️ Text-to-Speech: Convert text to speech with customizable voices

• 📁 File Playback: Play custom audio files from disk

• 🚀 Built with TypeScript and the MCP SDK

• 🪶 Lightweight and easy to integrate

Related MCP server: MCP Apple Reminders

📋 Requirements

• 🍎 macOS (uses afplay and system sounds)

• 🟢 Node.js 18+

• 📝 TypeScript

🚀 Installation

1. Clone this repository:

git clone <repository-url>
cd mcp-make-sound

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Build the project:

npm run build

💡 Usage

🎵 Running the Server

Start the MCP server:

npm start

For development with auto-reload:

npm run dev

🎯 Example: Claude Integration with Warp Terminal

Here's how you can set up the MCP sound server to provide audio feedback when AI tasks complete in Warp terminal:

Configuration Rule: "When AI is done, use mcp-make-sound to play a sound. The MCP supports error, info and success. Play the right sound based on AI task outcome."

This setup allows you to:

• 🔔 Hear a pleasant chime when tasks complete successfully

• ⚠️ Get an alert sound for warnings or partial completions

• ❌ Receive clear audio feedback for errors or failures

The audio feedback helps you stay focused on other work while knowing immediately when your AI assistant has finished processing your requests.

🛠️ Available Tools

The server provides four tools:

Simple Sound Methods (Legacy)

play_info_sound

• Description: Play an informational system sound

• Parameters: None

• Sound: Glass.aiff

play_warning_sound

• Description: Play a warning system sound

• Parameters: None

• Sound: Purr.aiff

play_error_sound

• Description: Play an error system sound

• Parameters: None

• Sound: Sosumi.aiff

Advanced Sound Method

play_sound

• Description: Play various types of sounds with customizable parameters

• Parameters:

  • type (required): "system", "tts", or "file"

  • Additional based on type (see examples below)

📖 Usage Examples

System Sounds

Play any of the 14 built-in macOS sounds:

{
  "name": "play_sound",
  "arguments": {
    "type": "system",
    "name": "Basso"
  }
}

Available system sounds: Basso, Blow, Bottle, Frog, Funk, Glass, Hero, Morse, Ping, Pop, Purr, Sosumi, Submarine, Tink

Text-to-Speech

Convert text to speech with optional voice selection:

{
  "name": "play_sound",
  "arguments": {
    "type": "tts",
    "text": "Hello, this is a test message",
    "voice": "Albert"
  }
}

Without voice (uses system default):

{
  "name": "play_sound",
  "arguments": {
    "type": "tts",
    "text": "Task completed successfully"
  }
}

Supported voices:

• English: Albert, Alice, Bad News, Bahh, Bells, Boing, Bruce, Bubbles, Cellos, Daniel, Deranged, Fred, Good News, Hysterical, Junior, Kathy, Pipe Organ, Princess, Ralph, Trinoids, Whisper, Zarvox

• International: Anna, Amélie, Daria, Eddy, Fiona, Jorge, Juan, Luca, Marie, Moira, Nora, Rishi, Samantha, Serena, Tessa, Thomas, Veena, Victoria, Xander, Yelda, Zosia

Note: If an unsupported voice is specified, the system will gracefully fall back to the default voice and continue playback.

Custom Audio Files

Play audio files from disk:

{
  "name": "play_sound",
  "arguments": {
    "type": "file",
    "path": "/Users/username/Music/notification.mp3"
  }
}

Supports common audio formats: .aiff, .wav, .mp3, .m4a, etc.

🔒 Security & Limitations

• System Sounds: Only the 14 official macOS sounds are allowed

• Text-to-Speech:

  • Text limited to 1000 characters maximum

  • Voice validation with graceful fallback to system default

  • Curated list of 43+ supported voices for security

• File Playback: Requires absolute paths and validates file existence

🔗 Integration with MCP Clients

This server can be integrated with any MCP-compatible client, such as:

• 🤖 Claude Desktop

• 🛠️ Custom MCP clients

• 🧠 AI assistants that support MCP

MCP Configuration Example

Add this to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcp-make-sound": {
    "command": "node",
    "args": [
      "/Users/nocoo/Workspace/mcp-make-sound/dist/index.js"
    ],
    "env": {},
    "working_directory": "/Users/nocoo/Workspace/mcp-make-sound",
    "start_on_launch": true
  }
}

Example tool calls:

{
  "name": "play_info_sound",
  "arguments": {}
}

{
  "name": "play_sound",
  "arguments": {
    "type": "system",
    "name": "Hero"
  }
}

🛠️ Development

📁 Project Structure

mcp-make-sound/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts          # Main server implementation
│   └── __tests__/        # Unit tests
│       └── sound.test.ts # Sound system tests
├── dist/                 # Compiled JavaScript output
├── eslint.config.js      # ESLint configuration
├── vitest.config.ts      # Vitest test configuration
├── package.json          # Project configuration
├── tsconfig.json         # TypeScript configuration
└── README.md            # This file

📜 Scripts

Build & Run

• npm run build - 🔨 Compile TypeScript to JavaScript

• npm start - ▶️ Run the compiled server

• npm run dev - 🔄 Development mode with auto-rebuild and restart

• npm run kill - 🛑 Stop all running MCP server instances

Code Quality & Testing

• npm run lint - 🔍 Check code style and errors

• npm run lint:fix - 🔧 Fix auto-fixable linting issues

• npm run test - 🧪 Run tests in watch mode

• npm run test:run - ✅ Run tests once

• npm run test:ui - 🎛️ Run tests with interactive UI

⚙️ How It Works

1. The server implements the MCP protocol using the official SDK

2. It exposes four tools for different sound capabilities

3. When a tool is called, it uses macOS commands:

   • afplay for audio file playback (system sounds and custom files)

   • say for text-to-speech synthesis

4. System sounds are located in /System/Library/Sounds/

5. The server communicates over stdio transport

🔧 Technical Details

• 🔌 Transport: Standard I/O (stdio)

• 📡 Protocol: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

• 🎧 Audio Backend: macOS afplay and say commands

• 🎵 Sound Files: System .aiff files, custom audio files, and synthesized speech

🚨 Error Handling

The server includes comprehensive error handling:

• Validates tool names and parameters

• Handles afplay and say command failures

• Validates required parameters for each sound type

• Returns appropriate error messages to clients

• Graceful server shutdown on errors

📄 License

MIT License

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

🎼 Sound Capabilities

Simple Methods (Legacy)

• 🔔 Info: Glass.aiff - A pleasant chime sound

• ⚠️ Warning: Purr.aiff - A gentle alert sound

• ❌ Error: Sosumi.aiff - A distinctive error sound

Advanced Method (play_sound)

• 🎵 14 System Sounds: All built-in macOS sounds available

• 🗣️ 50+ TTS Voices: Multiple languages and character voices

• 📁 Custom Files: Support for .aiff, .wav, .mp3, .m4a, and more

These capabilities provide rich audio feedback options for any application need.