How does the sound command in mIRC work ?
Assuming you have a sound card or a speaker driver allowing you to play sound files on your PC, you can make some funny use of sound on IRC with mIRC. Already available in mIRC before version 3.7 was the /wavplay {c:\path\sound.wav} command which allowed you to play a .wav sound file locally to you. In version 4.7 playing of Midi files is added and the command renamed /splay. With this command you can for instance play wav’s and midi files to alert you when your friends join IRC or when people get kicked or whatever else. You can ‘program’ these events in mIRC’s remote section. The /sound command allows you to send a request to any other party to play a .wav or .midi file he and you both have. First set mIRC to Accept sound requests under File/Options/Sound Requests/ The command syntax is /sound [nickname|#channel] {filename.ext} [action text]. As you see in the play request an action text may be specified which will display on the other side. I have to stress that the actual wav or mi
