ChatSounds
Description
I often miss guild and party messages popping up on my screen since they don't make a sound.
I figured I'd make a mod to solve the problem. :)
Features
- Can play new sounds for
- Whispers
- Guild
- Officer
- Party and Party Leader
- Raid and Raid Leader
- Battlegrounds and BG Leader
- Custom player joined channels
- Force Whisper sounds for every whisper.
- Blacklist specific custom channels (for example hidden channels joined by addons)
- Allows users to /r after sending a whisper without getting a reply.
- Has a Configuration Dialog Box which is accessible through the comic bubble icon next to the Chat Frame.
- Saves its settings per character.
Configuration
- Click the comic bubble icon on top of the Chat Frame and select 'ChatSounds' from the menu.
- '/chatsounds' at the command prompt.
- '/chatsounds ?' will give help for extra commands.
Does the addon work for 6.03? The above says it has been updated to work for 5.4....
Spyderdeman is correct: You no longer need to convert to mp3 to ogg and edit the lua:
From http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/16561637/603-hotfixes-october-30-10-30-2014 "PlaySound API should now work correctly and be able to play MP3s once more".
Above also means:
If you converted MP3s to ogg and edited the lua, you should edit the lua back to using MP3 and re-use the original MP3 files (hopefully you saved them, otherwise you will need to convert the ogg files back to MP3 format :). If you don't convert back to MP3, the chances are small but it is theoretically possible for a future update of this addon to behave in an unpredictable manner.
Works well in patch 6.0.3
KingAir's advice is exactly right! Thank you!
I used VLC to do the conversion from mp3 to ogg audio files and then edited the Soundlist.lua file replacing the .mp3 tag with .ogg. Fixed!
Hi.
No Sounds anymore :(
Hi.
I converted the MP3 Files to OGG, and edited the "SoundList.lua" and it works for me :)
Any chance at all you could upload that KingAir? All alternatives to this addon sucks :) Would be much appreciated.
Hi
You have to use a Programm like "FreeAudioConverter" or VLC to convert the Soundfiles (//Interface/Addons/Chatsounds/Sounds) from MP3 to OGG.
After that you have to edit the "Soundlist.lua" (//Interface/Addons/Chatsounds) so it looks like:
Thanks!
6.0 seems to have broken the addon.
Is there any way to import custom sounds ?
Hello, is there a way to deactivate this behaviour?
Is there a way to update this so I do not get the same sounds for incoming guild chat and me sending a guild chat. That part seems broke since our realm was merged. It worked perfectly before the merge.
Oh thank goodness. Going into game now to figure out how to do that. The OQgeneral channel makes the OQ addon unusable with this addon until I noticed that's already built in :) Thanks Dridzt.
I would love for these sounds to be 5 times louder, or for ChatSounds o have it's own volume control. I play while listening to music or to lots of SFX in boss fights, and the volume of thes souns is waay lower than it needs to b for me to be able to hear them through other sounds. At first, I didn't know that ChatSounds was working.
If we add other sounds to the folder, will those work?
Sorry I don't check comments as often as tickets.
Yes using other sounds will work, a full exit/restart of the game client will be required.
Additionally if you don't want to have to make changes to the addon source files as well you should rename your new soundfiles to take the place of the existing ones.
0.4.6-50400 and later should have the errors reported fixed.
I moved Cloudancer2 and ralnor's error reports to the ticket system
http://www.wowace.com/addons/chat-sounds/tickets/1-5-4-1-errors/
Check if your error is already reported.
In the mean-time (just got back from a mini-vacation so hadn't had time to look at all my addons for 5.4.1 yet) look at Vgeran's post below for a quick fix of the realmname error.
Will try to have a new version up shortly.
Edit: About the taint/addon blocked error. I might be able to 'fix' it by temporarily removing ChatSounds button from the chat menu but this is Blizzard screwing up their own code.
5.4.1 PTR Bug report.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10261856087
Ignored, the problem went live
Live bug report.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10388659115
UI & Macros mirror post
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10388639018
Feel free to add your voice to those if you're an addon author or user and affected.
Maybe they'll get around to un-breaking what they broke sooner.
For now addon authors don't have a solution, only a choice among problems:
Should I break the map / friends frame / chat or the talents / glyphs?
ChatSounds is popping up an error when you start it up now as of 5.4.1. If you look for this text in Interface\AddOns\ChatSounds\ChatSounds.lua:
GetCVar("realmName")
...and replace it with this...
GetRealmName()
...then the problems should go away. (That CVar is nil now, it seems.)
Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated.