[Solved] Help requested... Weird sound.

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Hello!


I've got a stupid problem: At random times, there seems to be no pattern, a loud sound like some kind of typewriter comes up, which seems to be caused by some kind of addon. I can't reproduce this and my only hint is that when I am in the tonk steam tank at the darkmoon faire, it happens more regularly. It's the sound of an old mechanical typerwriter machine when you hit a button or enter a new line. Its very irritating as I'm used to play with sound.
This problem appeared somewhere during 4.2.

Any help or hint which addon could cause this, so I can disable it, would be most appreciated!

Here's a list of my current addons:






Yours,
Blue

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Maybe an addon that notifies you when you get a debuff. The steam tonk gets debuffed quite often...
I don't know which addon can be responsible for that though... i hope i still could help you!

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You can try this:

local t={}
hooksecurefunc("PlaySoundFile",function(...) tinsert(t,{debugstack(),"PlaySoundFile",...}) end)
SlashCmdList["SOUNDDEBUG"] = function(n)
    n = tonumber(n)
    if n and (t[n]) then
        print(select(2,unpack(t[n])))
        print((unpack(t[n])))
    else
        for n=1,#t do
            print('#'..n,select(2,unpack(t[n])))
        end
    end
end
SLASH_SOUNDDEBUG1 = "/sounddebug"

How to use. Untested.
Leave it running in the background until the sound next occurs, do a /sounddebug to get the list of sounds played by addons this session, then use /sounddebug <num> to find the debug stack for it (which should contain the addon's folder).

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Very nice!

This helped and it seems it's resolved. Using /sounddebug showed me: [22:58:38] #1 PlaySoundFile Sound\Interface\AlarmClockWarning3.wav
I looked into my alarm clock settings ingame, and there really was this sound... quickly disabled it!

Thanks a lot!

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For reference, if a generic sound is played, you can then use /sounddebug 1 (or whatever number the entry has) to find out where exactly the PlaySoundFile call came from.

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I would like to make it work so it lists latest wow sounds used as well, how can I do that?
The reason is i customize wow sounds and instead of looking through the list of sounds, i would like to have the name of the soundfile used by wow printet. For instance i click an npc, the npc says "slow down" and I would like to make /sounddebug print the name of the that sound.

Is it possible?

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NPC sounds don't go through the UI, so nothing that can be done about that.

[caesia]

I'm gonna have to bookmark this for future use.