Roadmap

We just released an update for both the Sound Alerts Twitch extension and the Sound Alerts dashboard.

This update mainly consists of internal optimizations. 

All sound files are now served via a new content delivery network (CDN) which will speed up loading times, improve reliability, and ensure compatibility when playing sounds on the Sound Alerts dashboard and browser source.

Minor internal changes.

Several months ago we introduced the sound buttons profiles feature which allows you to save your favorite sound buttons to different profiles. 

In the Sound Alerts ideas board, the community requested to add a feature that allows copying sounds across profiles. We are happy to announce that we implemented this feature today!

This makes managing sound button profiles a lot easier!

Additional bug fixes:

• We fixed a bug where saving sound buttons to existing profiles didn't work properly.

We updated the sound uploader on the Sound Alerts web dashboard. Additionally to the regular sound uploads, you can now convert your Twitch and YouTube videos into sounds! No need for extra tools on your PC to do this annoying task anymore! Conveniently do this in your browser.

Localization feature added for the Sound Alerts web dashboard!

You can now change the language of the Dashboard to either English or German. More languages will follow in the coming weeks including Spanish and French.

• You can now add a "random sound" button in Sound Alerts which plays a random sound from your preselected sounds list.
• Channel Points leaderboard added in the Twitch extension. This is similar to the top bits user leaderboard and will become visible when you have the Sound Alerts channel points feature active.
• The embedded Sound Alerts configuration has been removed from the Twitch dashboard. From now on Sound Alerts can only be configured on dashboard.soundalerts.com. 
• A bug has been fixed for the dashboard where an additional empty sound buttons profile was added when saving an existing sound buttons profile.
• A bug has been fixed for the extension where users could no longer navigate through the sound buttons pages when the page they currently visited no longer exists. E.g. when the streamer switches from a 5 pages buttons profile to a 2 pages buttons profile while the viewer was on the 3rd, 4th or 5th page.
• A bug has been fixed where a minor part of users could not log in to the dashboard properly

Add a random sound button

When you go online with your stream, Sound Alerts chatbot will send a reminder message into your Twitch chat if you have Sound Alerts disabled, or when your browser source is offline.

You can now append "?overlap=true" (without the " symbols) to your Sound Alerts browser source URL to let sounds overlap and play simultaneously instead of a queue system.

We will add a enable/disable option for this to the Sound Alerts settings page in the dashboard at a later point too.

• Removed the 60 seconds sound file upload restriction that was implemented in the previous update
• Increased the maximum sound buttons for the Sound Alerts extension to 30

• You can now remove entries from the top sounds and top users leaderboard at the "Insights" page on the dashboard.
• New sound uploads now save the sound file duration. This duration information will be displayed inside the extension and dashboard library at a later point.
• New sounds uploaded to the library can now not exceed 60 seconds duration.

- UI improvements for the active sound buttons dashboard page. (Each list element is smaller, added a sub-only indicator)

- You can now select multiple sound buttons at once for editing or removing them.

- Fixed a bug where the ordering of the sound buttons did not work properly.

- There is now a "select profile" button when you remove all your currently active sound buttons.

- When streamers add the Sound Alerts extension on their Twitch channel while it has not been configured an error message appears instead of an infinite loading circle.

- Added a message to the embedded Sound Alerts configuration on the Twitch dashboard saying that the embedded config is deprecated. The embedded config page on Twitch will be removed in the next few months.

• Extension sound buttons profiles feature added. Save your sound buttons to presets and instantly change your current preset on the dashboard home page.
• Added the option to popout the Sound Alerts activity feed
• Added more Bits amounts

• Leaderboard for Top Bits and Top Sounds show now top 10 instead of top 9
• The message when the streamer has not set up any sounds has been changed. The previous message "The streamer has disabled Sound Alerts" was misleading.
• Better error handling: When the broadcaster did not grant the extension the permission to view their viewer’s subscriber status or revoked that permission, there will be an error message on sub-only sounds inside the extension.
• There will be an error message on sounds with Bits when the Bits feature is not available anymore on that channel. E.g. the channel gets degraded from Affiliate or Partner status.

• Added the option to emulate any Sound Alerts from the dashboard in your browser source to better test and adjust volume settings
• Added an option when uploading a new sound to make the sound private not be searchable in the public library

• Fixed an infinite loading bug that occured on some browsers.
• Extension will now reload when an unexpected error occurs.
• Channel Points alerts are now displayed in the extension configuration page and dashboard widget on Twitch.

• New users will now see a video tutorial for Sound Alerts when they open the dashboard for the first time.

• Improved chat bot stability
• Chat bot (SoundAlerts) will now stay 24/7 in chatter list after the first message. Chat bot will leave the chatter list when you deactivate the chat bot feature in the Sound Alerts dashboard.
• Added chat bot commands like. Mods can set the Sound Alerts volume with the !volume command. Type !soundalerts to see the full commands list.

• Added an option to filter sounds by mood type (Happy, Sad, etc.)

• Added an option to disable leaderboard.
• Improved the Bits analytics page.

• New standalone Sound Alerts dashboard Beta released. You can now configure Sound Alerts in a standalone web app instead of the configuration page on Twitch. The new Dashboard sets the ground to allow us to add more features for Sound Alerts in the future.
• Channel Points! - Create up to 5 more additional Sound Alerts with channel points. Open the new dashboard and activate this new feature.
• Dashboard: Refresh browser source button has been added at the top right of the activity feed.
• Dashboard: Added the option to choose one of 5 different moods when you upload a new sound. When searching for new sounds you can filter them by specific moods.
• Dashboard: Disable leaderboard option added
• Dashboard: Improved Bits analytics. You can now set date ranges to analyze your Sound Alerts Bits income.
• Browser source stability improvements and bug fixes