How to Bind WAV Files in Ventrilo
The voice chatting program Ventrilo gives you the ability to play WAV files on your computer and others connected to the same chat server when you press hotkey combinations you define. In this way, you can send orders and notifications to your teammates during fast action games without breaking your concentration. Create an audio theme, bind hotkey combinations to WAV files and send the WAV files to the people you play online games with.
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Instructions
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Launch Ventrilo and click the arrow next to the "Bindings" drop-down menu near the top of the window. A new window titled "Setup Bindings" appears.
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Click the "New" button at the top of the window. Type a short name describing the audio theme you want to create and click "OK."
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Click the "Add" button. A new window titled "Edit Hotkey/Function" appears.
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Click the "Wave File(s)" radio button.
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Click the "Hotkey" field at the bottom of the window and press the hotkey combination -- Shift+C, for example -- that you want to trigger the WAV file. Click "OK." A new window titled "Edit Wave Files" appears.
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Click the "Work Dir" button at the bottom of the window. A Windows Explorer window appears. Double-click the "wav" folder in the new window.
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Create a new folder under the "wav" folder with the same name as the one you selected in Step 2. Copy all of the WAV files you want to bind into the new folder.
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Close the Windows Explorer window and confirm that the WAV files you copied are now listed in the "Edit Wave Files" window. If you don't see every file, close the window and repeat Steps 3 to 5.
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Click the WAV file that you want to bind to the hotkey combination you selected. Then click "OK."
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Click the "Add" button at the bottom of the window to bind additional WAV files to hotkey combinations. Then click "OK" when you're finished.
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Tips & Warnings
To make the WAV files that you bind to hotkey combinations play on another person's computer, send the files to her. Ask her to click the "Work Dir" button, open the "wav" folder and create a folder with the same name as the one you selected for the audio theme in Step 2. All of the WAV files in the audio theme must be stored in this folder on her computer.
