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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

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.

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_ForgeUser460367
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Posted Nov 9, 2014
Does the addon work for 6.03? The above says it has been updated to work for 5.4....

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CruxOfTheBiscuit
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Posted Nov 3, 2014
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.

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Posted Oct 29, 2014
Works well in patch 6.0.3

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Posted Oct 20, 2014
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!

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Posted Oct 17, 2014
Hi.

No Sounds anymore :(

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
Hi.

I converted the MP3 Files to OGG, and edited the "SoundList.lua" and it works for me :)

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
Any chance at all you could upload that KingAir? All alternatives to this addon sucks :) Would be much appreciated.

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Posted Oct 21, 2014
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:

--- Addon Sounds
ChatSounds_Sound["Heart"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Heart.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["Kachink"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Kachink.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["Link"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Link.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["Text1"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Text1.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["Text2"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Text2.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["Choo"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Choo.ogg" }
-- ChatSounds_Sound["Dirty"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Dirty.wav" }
ChatSounds_Sound["doublehit"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\doublehit.ogg" }
-- ChatSounds_Sound["Dullhit"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\Dullhit.wav" }
ChatSounds_Sound["gasp"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\gasp.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["himetal"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\himetal.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["hit"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\hit.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["pop1"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\pop1.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["pop2"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\pop2.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["shaker1"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\shaker1.ogg" }
ChatSounds_Sound["switchy"] = { value="Interface\\AddOns\\ChatSounds\\Sounds\\switchy.ogg" }
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Posted Oct 21, 2014
Thanks!

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Posted Oct 14, 2014
6.0 seems to have broken the addon.

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Posted May 21, 2014
Is there any way to import custom sounds ?

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Posted May 11, 2014
Allows users to /r after sending a whisper without getting a reply

Hello, is there a way to deactivate this behaviour?
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Posted Mar 9, 2014
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.

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Posted Jan 6, 2014
Blacklist specific custom channels (for example hidden channels joined by addons)

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.

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Posted Dec 9, 2013
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?

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Posted Dec 19, 2013
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.

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Posted Oct 31, 2013
0.4.6-50400 and later should have the errors reported fixed.

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Posted Oct 31, 2013
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?

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Posted Oct 30, 2013
Quote from VgerAN »

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.

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Posted Oct 29, 2013
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.)

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