Alert Studio

Alert Studio lets you set up alerts: a sound of your choice when you cast a spell, when a buff lands on you, stacks, drops off or is missing, when Bloodlust hits, or when something happens around you: you die, a ready check starts, your queue pops, a boss goes down.

Alerts live in sections that apply to every character, to one class, to a role or to any mix of specs, so each of your characters hears only what is meant for it.

• Cast sounds for your own abilities, with loops and an interval
• Delayed sound: plays a set time after a cast, with its own loops and a rule for re-casts
• Buff sounds for procs, passives, trinkets and externals: gained, stack gained, removed and missing
• Buff sounds are played by the game itself, so they work in combat, raids, Mythic+ and PvP (client 12.1 or newer)
• Missing reminders every N seconds while a buff is off you
• Presets: Bloodlust (all forms) and one for every raid buff, reminding you while someone in the group could cast it
• Event alerts: dying, combat, boss kills, ready checks, queue pop, whispers, invites and more
• Only when: plays when you want it to: "Solo", "In Heroic", "With a Monk" and more
• Play limits: at most once every X seconds, at most N times per fight or session
• Sound sets: several sounds on one event, one of them plays each time
• Sections per character, class, role or any mix of specs, with subsections, drag & drop and multi-select
• Export and import of sections and alerts as text

• 119 shipped sounds sorted into topics
• Every sound other addons share
• The game's own sound files, 131,000 of them, browsable by folder or searched by name.
• About 40,000 voice lines are named by what is said, so "by fire be purged" or "laugh tauren" finds them
• Your own .ogg / .mp3 files (see below)

1. Put your .ogg or .mp3 files into "World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\SharedMedia_MyMedia" (create the folder if needed). Not into the AlertStudio folder, an update would delete them!
2. Restart the game client completely, a /reload is not enough.
3. On an alert's Sounds page, type the file name into the "Add custom file" box and press Enter.

• The spell picker's "Active on you now" and "Seen on you" lists come from reading your buffs, which the game hides in combat, boss encounters, Mythic+ and PvP. They fill in out of combat; alerts play regardless.
• Long sounds cut off in fights: the game drops the oldest sound when its channels run out. The addon's settings have a button that raises the game's Sound Channels to 128.
• A short-tooltips setting leaves out the explanations and the click, drag and mouse wheel hints once you know your way around.

• /as (open or close the alert list; /alerts and /alertstudio do the same)
• /as check (report whether every buff sound is registered with the game)
• /as debug (record a log for bug reports)
• /as log <n|clear> (show or clear the log)
• /as mark <text> (put a marker into the log)

 

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