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The #ragnarokwisdom Sounds FAQ
(Or,
the FAQ That No One Reads and Ask Questions Already Answered
on it Anyway, Just Like the Other Ragnarok Wisdom FAQ!)
The Ragnarok Wisdom IRC channel, unlike most chammels
on the internet, allows people to freely play sounds without
getting punished for it. This FAQ exists to provide detailed
info on how to listen, play, or if you like, ignore sounds.
Table
of Contents
Introduction
/ General Questions:
1a. What's this CTCP SOUND thing?
1b. How does the CTCP SOUND work?
2. Are
there any limits to using the CTCP SOUND?
3. I
hate these CTCP Sounds! STOP PLAYING THEM!
4. What about sound flooding?
5. Someone sent me a loud/long/disgusting sound!
What can I do?!
Ragnarok
Wisdom's eIRC Java Client:
6. I want to hear these sounds. How do I get
them?
mIRC:
7a. I want to hear these sounds. How do I
get them?
7b. I want to play these sounds. How do I
play them?
8a. How do I turn sounds off if I don't want
to hear them?
8b. I don't want to see the CTCP message every
time a sound is played.
8c. Is there a way to specifically block CTCP
from someone?
8d. Sometimes people play a lot of sounds.
I don't like that, what can I do?
9a. For some reason I can't seem to recieve
or send sounds with DCC.
9b. DCC still doesn't work.
X-Chat:
10. I want to hear these sounds. How do I get
them?
11a. I don't want to see the CTCP message
every time a sound is played.
11b. Is there a way to specifically block
CTCP from someone?
Introduction and General Questions
1a. What's this CTCP
SOUND thing?
Chances
are, you got pointed to this FAQ because you asked about
a question on this FAQ, which is most likely in the topic
of Ragnarok Wisdom's IRC channel, and you didn't care to
read it. If that's so, shame on you. If it's not, well,
we can answer your questions!
If you've been hanging out in the IRC channel for long,
you've probably noticed by now that several users often
spam CTCP SOUND things, which either show up in a seperate
CTCP window or in-channel as a big red SOUND, depending
on your client.
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1b.
How does the CTCP SOUND work?
As
mentioned, the SOUND thing is a CTCP (Client to Client Protocol)
message sent from the sender to everyone in the channel.
Though the CTCP system itself can be interpreted by any
IRC program, the CTCP SOUND command is specifically intended
for mIRC clients - these programs have a built-in ability
to interpret a CTCP SOUND message.
When an mIRC client recieves the CTCP SOUND command, it'll
look for a the filename specified in the sounds folder.
If found, it plays the sound. The sound can be an MP3 or
WAV. If your client doesn't have the sound file, it notifies
you with a "Can't Find (Filename.Extension)" error.
Some other IRC clients can be programmed to also play sounds
when recieving a CTCP sound message. At the moment, not
much information can be provided on these, as little experimentation
has been done in that field.
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2.
Are there any limits to using the CTCP SOUND?
Unfortunately, yes, there is.
For now, there are two rules with the CTCP SOUND imposed
in the channel:
#1: Do not broadcast MIDI files to the channel. They serve
little use compared to other formats, and are a little hard
to stop from playing.
#2: Do not broadcase full copies of a liscenced song to
the channel. What I mean is stuff like, say, music by your
favorite rock or pop band or what not. As this channel has
a rule not to openly discuss or share sharing of liscenced
music, using the CTCP SOUND to broadcast your copied music
to others would be a violation of the rule.
Parts of a song are okay - you could record a lyric
of a two from the song, make it into its own sound file
and play that.
Also, any song that isn't liscenced (or was available
for free download by the producers itself) is okay, but
you have to clarify it with me.
People who violate these stipulations will be warned the
first time, but if they boldly ignore this warning, a mace
will get buried in their face.
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3.
I hate these CTCP Sound things! STOP PLAYING THEM! NOW!
DO NOT yell at the channel goers to stop it
with the sounds or brag about how glad you are you don't
have the sound feature on mIRC turned on. Instead, educate
yourself on ways to block the CTCP SOUND messages or the
sounds.
The channel allows (almost) free usage of mIRC's sound ability
- not only because they can often be used with hilarious
timing and add a new element to the chatting, but because
many other channels outright kick or ban anyone who uses
the CTCP sounds. In other words, this is a freedom rarely
granted.
While this may sound backwards, if you harass people who
are playing sounds in the channel (or boast about how great
it is not hearing sounds), you can get kicked or
banned for it.
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4.
Hey! These people are CTCP SOUNDing so much I get server
flood notices! Stop it or I'll call the IRC ops!
Quite frankly, if you carry out that threat, the IRC ops
will laugh at you, and I'll mace you in the face for trying
to blackmail the channel into changing the rules.
We talked to the IRC ops about whether or not the channel
and its policy with CTCP SOUNDS, as well as the intensity
of CTCP usage was against Esper.net's AUP, and it's not.
The only circumstance that they would act is if you had
taken measures to block CTCP sounds and individual users
were attempting to skirt your blocks to harass you (and
if that ever happens, you should go to me or one of the
other channel ops, NOT the IRC ops. We'll take care of it).
If you dislike getting the server flood notices, there's
two things you can do:
1. If you have mIRC, add this to the remote:
on ^1:NOTICE:*server flood protection*:#ragnarokwisdom:halt
2. Try changing to another server (legend.esper.net, as
of this FAQ's writing, does not announce server flood notices).
Rest assured, however, that if you threaten or carry out
a threat to blackmail the channel, you're going to regret
it.
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5.
I got a loud/disgusting/long sound file from someone and
it's annoying me! What do I do?
Don't worry! You've got the final say on sound files; if
someone sends you an offending sound, you can replace the
sound with another more appealing to you that has the exact
same file name. When they broadcast the CTCP message for
that sound to be played, locally your replacement file will
be heard instead.
You can also edit your local copies of sound files to turn
down the volume if someone sends you an especially loud
one. You can achieve this through Sound Recorder for .wav
files. Mp3 files can be turned down if you convert them
to .wav and use an editor to tone them down, and then reconvert
them to .mp3 again.
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Ragnarok Wisdom's eIRC Java Client
6.
I want to hear these sounds. How do I get them?
Unfortunately, the eIRC java client on the Ragnarok Wisdom
website cannot play sounds whatsoever. Nor can it filter
out the CTCP SOUND messages. If these bug you, you might
want to consider downloading an IRC chat program insteaf.
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mIRC
7a.
I want to hear these sounds. How do I get them?
To set up your computer to get the sounds played in the
channel, you have to configure mIRC so that it will auto-request
sounds you don't have, as well as play the ones you do have.
You have to do several things to do this:
1. First, go to File (at the top menu) and click on it.
Then click on Options at the drop-down menu.
From there you'll be given a menu with a select tree window
thing on the side. Look for the option "Sounds"
and click on it to bring up some options on the right side
of this window. Click on the Enable Sounds option.
2. Go to Tools on the top menu, and click on Remote. You'll
be given a window with a little text window. On a new line,
copy and paste the following:
on 1:NOSOUND:/msg $nick ! $+ $nick $filename
3. Go back to File at the top menu, and Options again. This
time at the menu that pops up, click on Requests, which
is right below Sounds.
Click all the options in the window to the right except
"Ignore if a sound is currently playing."
That's all there is to it!
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7b.
I want to play these sounds myself . How do I do that?
To play a sound in the channel, type /sound (filename.extension)
. You can also send a message while playing a sound - it'll
play the sound and come out like a /ME action.
For example.
(Aragan types /sound zombies.wav is fighting off zombies
in a corner!)
* Aragan is fighting off zombies in a corner!
(zombies.wav is playing as this message appears)
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8a.
How do I turn off the sounds if I don't want to hear them?
Just turn off Enable Sounds from step 1.
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8b.
How do I make the CTCP SOUND things go away?
Add the following to your Remote window from Step 2, on
a new line -
ctcp 1:sound:#: halt
If you want to halt CTCP sound notifications from a particular
channel, you can replace the # with the full name of a channel,
like #esper or #ragnarokwisdom. That will specifically block
sounds from a certain channel.
And if you want to block the CTCP SOUND messages and yet
still hear sounds, well ... you're out of luck there. If
you want to hear sounds you'll have to put up with the CTCP
messages.
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8c.
I want to hear sounds, but not from specific people.
If someone is annoying you with sounds, mIRC is capable
of specifically ignoring all CTCP commands from them. To
do this, simply type -
/ignore -t (insert name of person to ignore here)
As of now, there is no way known to specifically block only
CTCP sounds from a person and not all CTCP messages.
If you have put a blanket anti-DCC ignore filter on (don't
worry if you don't know what I'm talking about), mIRC will
resist every attempt you make to ignore the person. You'll
have to close mIRC, go into your control.ini file, and manually
add the correct controls for ignoring CTCP sounds.
That means adding a line like this:
n(number here)=(name you wish to ignore)!*@*,ctcp,"EsperNet"
If the person is already in your ignore filter, just add
"ctcp," after the *@* bit. However, if that line
includes "exclude," you'll have to remove that.
Otherwise, mIRC will not ignore the person's CTCPs.
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8d.
Sometimes people play a lot of sounds, and I don't like
that.
It's possible to auto-ignore all CTCP for a short period
of time if they get to be too much. mIRC scripts like SysReset
(in particular) will do this; however, you may have to play
around with its settings. I've been told that SysReset will
pop up a new window with a message that it is temporarily
blocking people, which can defeat the purpose of cutting
down on annoyances.
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9a.
When I try to play a sound or someone plays a sound I don't
have, the DCC doesn't work. What's going on?
Make sure that, if you have put a global ignore on the DCC
function, that you remove it for the nickname in question.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about
it; you in all likelyhood haven't done this.
If you have though, to specifically allow someone to DCC
files to you, use this command:
/ignore (nickname of user) -x
This excludes them from the DCC ignore you've placed.
If you're dealing with a guy or girl who likes to change
their nickname a lot, you can always opt to use their hostmask
instead -
/ignore (hostmask) -x
If you don't know what a hostmask is, it's the stuff that
comes after the @ symbol on a /whois:
Aragan is blah@samplehostmask.ipt.yar.com
< That.
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9b.
DCC still doesn't work.
You may be one of the unlucky people who have a connection
that just doesn't agree with IRC. Ask some other people
in the know - they may be able to help you, but this FAQ
doesn't have the answer.
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X-Chat
10.
I want to hear these sounds. How do I get them?
Unfortunately, there is no way known to play or get sounds
on X-Chat at this time.
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11a.
I don't want to see the CTCP Sound message every time a
sound is played.
To fix this, go to Settlings in the top menu, then Lists,
then Text Events.
In the window that pops up, scroll down to CTCP Sound. You
should see something like this in an edible text bar:
"-%C10-%C11-%O$tReceived a CTCP Sound $1 from $2"
Remove it entirely, and you will no longer be bothered by
CTCP Sound messages.
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11b.
Is there a way to specifically block CTCP Sounds from someone?.
Yes, there is -- go to Window in the top menu, then Ignore
List.
In the new window that pops up, click on the New button,
then type in the hostmask or nick of the person you want
to block CTCP Sounds from. For example, if you wanted to
block anyone with a certain hostmask, you'd type in ...
*!samplehostmask.ipt.yar.com
Or if you wanted to block CTCP sounds from a specific nick
regardless of hostmask or IP, you'd put in ...
samplenick!*@*.*
Or you can use a combination to specifically ignore
a nick and hostmask.
When you've entered in the desired hostmask/nick, highlight
it on the list and uncheck everything except CTCP. Then
exit that window. You will no longer recieve CTCP sounds
from that person.
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