Trying to mute sounds on an event

[jandiarl]

Hello, I am trying to find a way to disable sounds like leveling up and similar sounds temporarily. I have searched for over an hour and could not find anything. Anyway, I tried thinking of a way to do it myself. So, what I did is try adding hooks on PlaySound and PlaySoundFile and suppress it there. Though, I cannot get any handle so I disable those specific sounds. I only get the sound path. So, I thought I could mute the sound and that worked but my problem is how to turn it back on after the sound is done playing. I even tried hooking on StopSound and unmuting but that wont work cause the event does not go there (I traced). Any ideas are appreciated. By the way, I am not trying to disable the sounds permanently. I know I could do that by putting empty files in the wow folder associated with the sounds to mute. That I do not want. Thank you.

[myrroddin]

1. Find the path to the sound file within the game that plays when you level up.
2. Create an empty txt file and rename the extension to .ogg, with the same file name as the file in step one (you don't need the whole path).
3. In your AddOn, register for "PLAYER_LEVEL" and any other events you want to silence.
4. PlaySoundFile(your_new_file)
5. Profit!

[jandiarl]

myrroddin, thanks for the reply. Though, I have tried that trick earlier and it does not work. I silenced the sound file and added a new file. The main sound gets permanently silenced and the new file does not play at all.

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by myrroddin Find the path to the sound file within the game that plays when you level up. Create an empty txt file and rename the extension to .ogg, with the same file name as the file in step one (you don't need the whole path). In your AddOn, register for "PLAYER_LEVEL" and any other events you want to silence. PlaySoundFile(your_new_file) Profit!

Steps 3 and 4 are totally unnecessary. Simply save your blank sound file to the same location as the file you wish to replace. Like this addon (and others like it) does: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...WoWSounds.html

[jandiarl]

Thank you for the reply, Seerah. Though, like I said I have tried those solutions and I do not want to permanently disable the sounds. I want to disable/mute them temporarily like I said in my original post.

So, to clear any further confusion. Here is what I want. I want to selectively mute some of the sounds and enable others for the same event. For example, on the level up sound I want to mute it on level 10 while allowing it on level 20.

Thank you.

[sirann]

Could check the level on PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD, get the player level, check a hash table with 9, 19, 29, etc. If the player's level == one of the levels in the hash table, enable the sound, so when you next level, it will play, else, disable. Then have it check on player level gain event.

The following is dry coded, but should give you a basic idea of what I mean.

local levelchecktable = {}
local k
 
for i = 0, 9 do
    k = 9 + 10*i
    levelchecktable[k] = true
end
 
local f = CreateFrame('Frame', nil, UIParent)
f:RegisterEvent('PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD')
f:RegisterEvent('PLAYER_LEVEL_UP')
 
f:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, ...)
    k = UnitLevel('player')
    if levelchecktable[k] then
        --ensure the .ogg sound file is set to the correct sound file
    else
        --set the .ogg soundfile to a false file
    end
end)

[jandiarl]

Originally Posted by sirann --ensure the .ogg sound file is set to the correct sound file else --set the .ogg soundfile to a false file end end)[/highlight]

How do you set and check?

[sirann]

So basically, the only way I can think of doing this, is by tricking the game. The game is going to play that noise every time you hit a level. But, you don't want that. So we need to have the game play a "spoof" file, of nothing. So, you'll need an empty .ogg file that will be the exact name of the level up file. See:

Originally Posted by Phanx "Sound\\Interface\\Levelup.ogg" "Sound\\Interface\\Levelup2.ogg" Once you figure out which sound it is, you can create an empty text file with the same name, under the same directory structure: World of Warcraft\Sound\Interface\Levelup.ogg Create any folders that don't exist. The file can just be a plain text file, renamed with an .ogg extension.

This will disable the sound file the game will play. However, you still want to hear the noise every 10th level. So you could download the sound file, and have a PlaySoundFile(PATH\\TO\\YOUR\\SOUNDFILE\\THAT\\WILL\\ACTUALLY\\PLAY\\NOISE)

this code should do that, assuming you have the two spoof files, and the one file that will actually play the noise properly directed:

local levelchecktable = {}
 
for i = 10, 100, 10 do
    levelchecktable[i] = true
end
 
local f = CreateFrame('Frame', nil, UIParent)
f:RegisterEvent('PLAYER_LEVEL_UP')
 
f:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, ...)
    if levelchecktable[UnitLevel('player')] then
        PlaySoundFile(PATH\\TO\\YOUR\\SOUNDFILE\\THAT\\WILL\\ACTUALLY\\PLAY\\NOISE)
    end
end)

[jandiarl]

Originally Posted by jandiarl myrroddin, thanks for the reply. Though, I have tried that trick earlier and it does not work. I silenced the sound file and added a new file. The main sound gets permanently silenced and the new file does not play at all.

Thanks for the reply though, sirann. I guess it is not possible to do this, after all.

[sirann]

If the other sound wasn't playing, my guess was your implementation was incorrect. It's very doable to play a sound on an event, such as leveling up, or else how would certain boss modifications work! I believe my code should do what you need it to do, so long as you have the 2 spoof files to trick blizzards level hook, and the true file to play the actual sound.

[jandiarl]

Actually, I tested like this:

/run PlaySoundFile("path to file")

and

/run PlaySound("path to file")

I tried before and after silencing the sounds. The original files play fine without me adding muting files. They do not play with the muting files. Though, the new ones do not play at all. I cleared my cache too to make sure.