Introduction

What are "Chat Sounds"? Chat Sounds is the term I have applied to sound and music files that are stored on your computer and triggered by your IRC chat program to lend more fun to the IRC chat experience. This is totally optional. If you do not wish to hear humorous sounds or enjoyable music emanating from your computer while you are trying to read or type during an IRC chat, then leave now and don't worry about it ever again. If, hoewever, you want to make your chat experience more fun for you and others, just follow the instructions below.
What do I do next? Just follow the instructions below for help doing everything you need to do to take part in Chat Sounds. Everything from downloading the files to configuring "popups" in the mIRC software has been posted here to help you.
  1. How to download the files.

    2. Note: Instructions for the mIRC program are for version 6. Other versions of mIRC might have different menus or locations for these commands and dialogs.

  2. How to make sure you can hear the sound requests.
  3. How to trigger a sound to the whole group.
  4. How to trigger a sound to a specific person.
  5. To configure your Pop-ups for the Nickname list.
  6. To configure your Pop-ups for the Channel window.

How to download the files.

On a PC: move the mouse onto the "File Name" of the sound or song you wish to download (or the zip archive of all the sounds or songs). Click the RIGHT mouse button. Choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Link Document As..." from the list that pops up. Locate your mIRC "Sounds" folder. By default, this is "C:\mirc\sounds\". Then, after you have found that folder, click the "Save" button. If you downloaded a single sound, you can play it after it has downloaded by double-clicking on that file within your Windows Explorer (or File Manager). If you downloaded a zip archive, you will need to unzip it first. If you have Winzip on your machine, you're all set. Just double-click on the zip file, and extract/unzip all the files into your mIRC sounds folder (same place as the zip file). If you do not have Winzip, you can download it from www.winzip.com.
On a Mac: move the mouse onto the "File Name" of the sound or song you wish to download (or the zip archive of all the sounds or songs). Click AND HOLD the mouse button. Choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Link Document As..." from the list that pops up. I think Macs can play WAV files, but I'm not sure about them opening ZIP files. If you are on a mac, and would like to help me help others with this, please let me know. Actually, I don't think any of the Mac IRC clients will respond to the mIRC sound requests anyway, so be sure and look into it before devoting a lot of time with instructions on unzipping ZIP files.

How to make sure you can hear the sound requests.

With mIRC: follow these steps to ensure you will hear the sound requests:
  1. Make sure all the sound and song files you want to be able to hear are in the mIRC "Sounds" folder.
  2. If mIRC is not running, launch it.
  3. Click the "Tools" menu and choose "Options..."
  4. Click the expand icon (the + sign) next to the "Sounds" item in the category menu at the left side of the mIRC Options window. This will show the "Requests" and "Agents" categories.
  5. Click the "Requests" item in the category menu.
  6. Make sure there is a check in the box labeled "Accept sound requests"
  7. The "On Sound Request" section is self-explanatory and generally unimportant at this time. Make your own choices or leave as-is.
  8. Make sure BOTH the "Listen for..." and "Send..." boxes are CHECKED.
  9. Make sure the "Wave files folder:" and "Midi files folder:" show the correct folder. If you stored the files in a different location than shown, click the button that has the current location as its label, locate the correct folder that has the files, and click "OK".
  10. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the mIRC Options window.
  11. Have fun!

How to trigger a sound to the whole group.

With mIRC: once you have connected to an IRC server and a channel to chat on, you can use the following command to trigger a sound event:
/sound wavfile.wav
Where "wavfile.wav" is the actual filename of the wav file you wish to play. You can also play MIDI music files this way. Be sure to use the exact filename that you want to play (MIDI files usually end in .mid) or it won't work. If the other people on the channel have the file, and are configured to play sound requests, they will hear the sound.
You can also configure Popups as below.

How to trigger a sound to a specific person.

With mIRC: once you have connected to an IRC server and a channel to chat on, you can use the following command to trigger a sound event to a specific user:
/sound nickname wavfile.wav
Where "nickname" is the exact nickname of the person you wish to hear the sound, and "wavfile.wav" is the actual filename of the wav file you wish to play. You can also play MIDI music files this way. Be sure to use the exact filename that you want to play (MIDI files usually end in .mid) or it won't work. Also, if you do not specify a nickname, then the whole group will get the sound request. If you specify an incorrect nickname, you will hear the sound, but no one else will, since the nickname you entered was incorrect. If the person has the file, and is configured to play sound requests, they will hear the sound.
You can also configure Popups as below.

How to configure "Pop-Ups".

With mIRC: If you want to be able to trigger sounds and other things using the mouse instead of typing them in manually, you can use "Pop-Ups" within the mIRC software. The following explains how to get to the popup tools window, and gives the actual text you can copy and paste into the section you want. If you want to learn how to make your own popups and things, you should sit down for a couple hours, and study the extensive Help files the mIRC program has to offer.
To configure your Pop-ups for the Nickname list, allowing you to send a sound request to a specific user by right-clicking on his/her nickname, and choosing the sound you wish to send:
  1. If mIRC is not running, launch it.
  2. Click the "Tools" menu and choose "Scripts Editor..."
  3. Click the "Popups" tab at the top
  4. Click the "view" menu and choose "Nick List"
  5. Use the scrollbar to scroll down to the bottom of the text in the window
  6. Place the cursor on the bottom line. If the bottom line is the end of a line of text, hit enter to start a new line.
  7. Copy ALL the text from the next step (directly below, starting with a period)
  8. .
Sounds
.Adios!:/sound $1 adios.wav
.Arugh?:/sound $1 arugh.wav
.Back To Work:/sound $1 bak2work.wav
.Blow Me Up!:/sound $1 blowmeup.wav
.Broke His Brain:/sound $1 brokebra.wav
.Confrontations:/sound $1 confront.wav
.Cool!:/sound $1 cool.wav
.Cough:/sound $1 cough.wav
.Anybody Hiding?:/sound $1 hiding.wav
.Immediate discussion!:/sound $1 discuss.wav
.Good Evening!:/sound $1 evening.wav
.Excellent!:/sound $1 excelent.wav
.Bloody Favoritism!:/sound $1 favrtism.wav
.First Time for Everything:/sound $1 firstime.wav
.Hello Mr. Fancy Pants:/sound $1 fncypnts.wav
.Greetings, Y'all!:/sound $1 greetings.wav
.G'day! How're ya going? Alright?:/sound $1 gday.wav
.How's it going eh?:/sound $1 going_eh.wav
.Helloooo:/sound $1 hellooo.wav
.Hi-ho neighbor!:/sound $1 hiho.wav
More Sounds
.Inconceivable!:/sound $1 inconcv.wav
.You are all individuals!:/sound $1 individ.wav
.No intelligent life:/sound $1 intelgnt.wav
.Irritate:/sound $1 irritate.wav
.Watch your language:/sound $1 language.wav
.Crazy is majority rules:/sound $1 majority.wav
.Meeting's over:/sound $1 meeting.wav
.You're mocking me:/sound $1 mocking.wav
.Oh, Nevermind!:/sound $1 nevrmind.wav
.Can we have Peace & Quiet!:/sound $1 peace&q.wav
.That's in poor taste.:/sound $1 portaste.wav
.Help! I'm being repressed!:/sound $1 repress.wav
.ROTFLOL!!:/sound $1 roflol.wav
.Let's get ready to RUMBLE!:/sound $1 rumble.wav
.Soitnly!:/sound $1 soitnly.wav
.Stupid Crap:/sound $1 stpdcrap.wav
.Take off eh!:/sound $1 take_off.wav
.You were good, kid.:/sound $1 weregood.wav
.Women...:/sound $1 women.wav
.wow, you're an idiot!:/sound $1 wowidiot.wav
Still More Sounds
.Wassup! #1:/sound $1 Wassup1.wav
.Wassup! #2:/sound $1 wassup2.wav
.Ford POS:/sound $1 fordpos.wav
.Shotgun Shot:/sound $1 PTING2.wav
.Grandpa Hello?:/sound $1 lull3.wav
.Khaaaan!!:/sound $1 khaan.wav
LAZER TAG SOUNDS!
.Powerup:/sound $1 sound_power-up.wav
.Good Luck:/sound $1 sound_good-luck.wav
.Danger:/sound $1 sound_danger.wav
.Deluxe Fire:/sound $1 sound_firing-deluxe-10shots.wav
.IRT Fire:/sound $1 sound_firing-drone-3shot-burst.wav
.TMB Fire:/sound $1 sound_firing-tmb.wav
.Rocket Ready:/sound $1 sound_tmb-rocket-ready.wav
.Firing Rocket:/sound $1 sound_tmb-rocket-firing.wav
.Reload:/sound $1 sound_drone-reload.wav
.Warning!:/sound $1 sound_warning.wav
.You're Out!:/sound $1 sound_youre-out.wav
.Game Over:/sound $1 sound_game-over.wav
.Excellent:/sound $1 sound_excellent.wav
  9. Paste that text into the bottom of that window, essentially adding all that text to the "Nickname List" set of popups.
  10. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the mIRC Editor window.
  11. To use these popups during a chat session, highlight a user nickname from the list on the right side of the channel window, then right-click that nickname, move the mouse onto "Sounds" then choose the sound you want to trigger from the list.
  12. Have fun!

When you get a new sound, you can create your own selection in the popups list by following the basic example of:
.show_this_in_the_list:/sound $1 wavfile.wav

When the list of sounds gets too long to appear in the popup menu, just split them up with something like "More Sounds" as in the text provided above.

To configure your Pop-ups for the Channel window, allowing you to send a sound request to a ALL users in the channel by right-clicking in the channel window, and choosing the sound you wish to send:
  1. If mIRC is not running, launch it.
  2. Click the "Tools" menu and choose "Scripts Editor..."
  3. Click the "Popups" tab at the top
  4. Click the "View" menu and choose "Channel"
  5. Use the scrollbar to scroll down to the bottom of the text in the window
  6. Place the cursor on the bottom line. If the bottom line is the end of a line of text, hit enter to start a new line.
  7. Copy ALL the text from the next step (directly below, starting with a period)
  8. .
Sounds
.Adios!:/sound adios.wav
.Arugh?:/sound arugh.wav
.Back To Work:/sound bak2work.wav
.Blow Me Up!:/sound blowmeup.wav
.Broke His Brain:/sound brokebra.wav
.Confrontations:/sound confront.wav
.Cool!:/sound cool.wav
.Cough:/sound cough.wav
.Anybody Hiding?:/sound hiding.wav
.Immediate discussion!:/sound discuss.wav
.Good Evening!:/sound evening.wav
.Excellent!:/sound excelent.wav
.Bloody Favoritism!:/sound favrtism.wav
.First Time for Everything:/sound firstime.wav
.Hello Mr. Fancy Pants:/sound fncypnts.wav
.Greetings, Y'all!:/sound greetings.wav
.G'day! How're ya going? Alright?:/sound gday.wav
.How's it going eh?:/sound going_eh.wav
.Helloooo:/sound hellooo.wav
.Hi-ho neighbor!:/sound hiho.wav
More Sounds
.Inconceivable!:/sound inconcv.wav
.You are all individuals!:/sound individ.wav
.No intelligent life:/sound intelgnt.wav
.Irritate:/sound irritate.wav
.Watch your language:/sound language.wav
.Crazy is majority rules:/sound majority.wav
.Meeting's over:/sound meeting.wav
.You're mocking me:/sound mocking.wav
.Oh, Nevermind!:/sound nevrmind.wav
.Can we have Peace & Quiet!:/sound peace&q.wav
.That's in poor taste.:/sound portaste.wav
.Help! I'm being repressed!:/sound repress.wav
.ROTFLOL!!:/sound roflol.wav
.Let's get ready to RUMBLE!:/sound rumble.wav
.Soitnly!:/sound soitnly.wav
.Stupid Crap:/sound stpdcrap.wav
.Take off eh!:/sound take_off.wav
.You were good, kid.:/sound weregood.wav
.Women...:/sound women.wav
.wow, you're an idiot!:/sound wowidiot.wav
Still More Sounds
.Wassup! #1:/sound Wassup1.wav
.Wassup! #2:/sound wassup2.wav
.Ford POS:/sound fordpos.wav
.Shotgun Shot:/sound PTING2.wav
.Grandpa Hello?:/sound lull3.wav
.Khaaaan!!:/sound khaan.wav
LAZER TAG SOUNDS!
.Powerup:/sound sound_power-up.wav
.Good Luck:/sound sound_good-luck.wav
.Danger:/sound sound_danger.wav
.Deluxe Fire:/sound sound_firing-deluxe-10shots.wav
.IRT Fire:/sound sound_firing-drone-3shot-burst.wav
.TMB Fire:/sound sound_firing-tmb.wav
.Rocket Ready:/sound sound_tmb-rocket-ready.wav
.Firing Rocket:/sound sound_tmb-rocket-firing.wav
.Reload:/sound sound_drone-reload.wav
.Warning!:/sound sound_warning.wav
.You're Out!:/sound sound_youre-out.wav
.Game Over:/sound sound_game-over.wav
.Excellent:/sound sound_excellent.wav
  9. Paste that text into the bottom of that window, essentially adding all that text to the "Nickname List" set of popups.
  10. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the mIRC Editor window.
  11. To use these popups during a chat session, right-click in the middle of the channel window, move the mouse onto "Sounds" then choose the sound you want to trigger from the list.
  12. Have fun!

When you get a new sound, you can create your own selection in the popups list by following the basic example of:
.show_this_in_the_list:/sound wavfile.wav

When the list of sounds gets too long to appear in the popup menu, just split them up with something like "More Sounds" as in the text provided above.