Shredder 9 UCI announce moves?

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Date: 01 Jan 2006 10:33:03
From: Richard
Subject: Shredder 9 UCI announce moves?

I have Shredder 9 UCI for PC.

In the options menu "Announce Moves" is greyed out.

I have found a review at:

http://home.aol.com/rjpawlak/reviews/Shredder9.0.html

This has the following paragraph:

Move announcement sounds can be added if you have a previous version of
Shredder that has a directory of WAV format sound files (just copy to the
corresponding subdirectory in Shredder 9).

I will email Shredder.com after the holiday, but does anyone know of a quick
soloution?

Thanks for your help.

Richard

Date: 01 Jan 2006 12:02:23
From: Charlie
Subject: Re: Shredder 9 UCI announce moves?

"Richard" <richard@richardwaldron.wanadoo.co.uk > wrote in message
news:dp8b500jo2@news2.newsguy.com...
>I have Shredder 9 UCI for PC.
> In the options menu "Announce Moves" is greyed out.
> I have found a review at:
> http://home.aol.com/rjpawlak/reviews/Shredder9.0.html
> This has the following paragraph:
> Move announcement sounds can be added if you have a previous version of
> Shredder that has a directory of WAV format sound files (just copy to the
> corresponding subdirectory in Shredder 9).
> I will email Shredder.com after the holiday, but does anyone know of a
> quick soloution?
> Thanks for your help.
> Richard

There are 137 .wav files in a directory named English (7.91 MB). Copy it as
a subdirectory under Shredder 9 UCI. Then it works fine. I don't know which
prior versions of Shredder have this offhand, but it worked for me. I don't
know of a faster solution.

Date: 02 Jan 2006 16:21:28
From: Alexander Wagner
Subject: Re: Shredder 9 UCI announce moves?

On 2006-01-01, Charlie <Char@lie.8wu2 > wrote:

Hi!

> news:dp8b500jo2@news2.newsguy.com...
>>I have Shredder 9 UCI for PC.
>> In the options menu "Announce Moves" is greyed out.
>> I have found a review at:
>> http://home.aol.com/rjpawlak/reviews/Shredder9.0.html
>> This has the following paragraph:
>> Move announcement sounds can be added if you have a previous version of
>> Shredder that has a directory of WAV format sound files (just copy to the
>> corresponding subdirectory in Shredder 9).
>> I will email Shredder.com after the holiday, but does anyone know of a
>> quick soloution?
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Richard
>
> There are 137 .wav files in a directory named English (7.91 MB). Copy it as
> a subdirectory under Shredder 9 UCI. Then it works fine. I don't know which
> prior versions of Shredder have this offhand, but it worked for me. I don't
> know of a faster solution.

I would guess that any subdir from allmost any ChessBase
program might do. So some Fritz soundfiles or whatever. I
asked already for this feature in the Linux verison but
there seems to be a problem with licensing or at least it is
not clear wether the wav-files are copyrighted.

An alternative is www.playwitharena.com which offers
sound files for move announcements. Though one would have to
fiddle out how to name them properly. As the linux version
of shredder does not know about move announcments at all I
did not fiddle out and there is no script to convert them
for shredder. (If the linux version would know how to
announce moves though, well, there would be...)

--

Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner

Date: 03 Jan 2006 15:23:28
From: Richard
Subject: Re: Shredder 9 UCI announce moves?

Thanks for all your help

Alex - I downloaded the English announcements from playwitharena.com

I am now using these sound files with my DGT board. They are much clearer
than the originals.
The main reason I wanted the sound files for Shredder UCI was that some of
the DGT board announcements were difficult to understand.

Now the problem is solved - excellent - thanks again.

Richard