BLU replaces repetitive World of Warcraft sounds with memorable audio from more than 50 games. Choose unique cues for levels, achievements, quests, reputation, battle pets, delves, housing, the Trading Post, and other milestones.
BLU is the Retail edition. Classic players should install BLU Classic.
| Feature | What it provides | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎵 | 50+ game sound libraries | Favorites from Final Fantasy, Zelda, Mario, Skyrim, Pokemon, Warcraft, and many more |
| 🏆 | Extensive event coverage | Levels, achievements, quests, reputation, renown, battle pets, delves, honor, housing, and Trading Post activity |
| 🔊 | Granular audio control | Per-event choices, volume variants, previews, and selective muting of matching WoW sounds |
| 📦 | Sound packs | Automatic discovery plus APIs for simple and full three-volume third-party packs |
| 🗂️ | Custom sounds | Register your own .ogg, .mp3, or .wav files in game |
| ⚙️ | Modern configuration | Tabbed options, profiles, modular features, and built-in diagnostics |
Each bundled selection includes Low, Medium, and High variants. Special collections may include several alternate cues.
BLU provides separate enable, sound-selection, and volume controls for its supported event modules.
| Category | Available cues |
|---|---|
| Achievements | Achievement earned and achievement criteria progress |
| Battle Pets | Pet level-up and pet capture |
| Combat | Combat start, combat end, combat music, and supported proc cues |
| Delves | Companion level-up, life lost, and life gained |
| Honor | Honor rank increases |
| Housing | Favor/XP, level-up, rewards, and decor collection |
| Leveling | Character level-up |
| Quests | Accepted, turned in, complete-at-quest-giver, and objective progress |
| Reputation | Reputation standing and major-faction renown rank increases |
| Trading Post | Activity completion and purchases |
Event availability follows the current Retail client. BLU's modular controls allow unused event groups to remain disabled.
The bundled library includes sounds inspired by more than 50 games, including Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Skyrim, Warcraft III, Mario, Minecraft, Morrowind, Path of Exile, RuneScape, Sonic the Hedgehog, and The Witcher 3. Some collections provide multiple alternate cues in addition to the standard volume variants.
BLU organizes sounds by game and variant in nested selection menus. Preview buttons let you test a selection before closing the options panel.
BLU supports World of Warcraft Retail. The current interface value is
maintained in BLU.toc, which is the source of truth as Retail
clients update.
- RGX-Framework is required.
- BLU Classic is a separate addon for supported Classic clients.
- Install BLU from CurseForge, Wago, or GitHub Releases.
- Install the required RGX-Framework dependency if your addon manager does not resolve it automatically.
- Launch Retail WoW and type
/blu. - Choose a sound for each event and preview it directly from the options panel.
Manual installs belong in:
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/BLU
For a manual installation, confirm the dependency is installed beside BLU:
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/RGX-Framework
Restart WoW or run /reload, then verify both addons are enabled at character
select.
Open /blu and use the tabbed options panel to configure event modules,
profiles, sounds, and diagnostics.
- Enable only the event modules you want BLU to handle.
- Select and preview a sound for each event.
- Choose the Low, Medium, or High variant where available.
- Decide whether BLU should mute the matching default WoW cue.
- Create or select a profile when you need a different setup.
Settings are stored in BLUDB. Profiles allow separate configurations without
requiring duplicate addon folders.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/blu |
Open options |
/blu help |
Show command help |
/blu status |
Show addon status |
/blu enable / /blu disable |
Enable or disable BLU |
/blu debug |
Toggle diagnostics |
/blu refresh |
Rebuild external and custom sound registries |
/blu rescan |
Discover newly registered media |
/blu addcustom myfile |
Add a compatible custom sound |
/blu removecustom path |
Remove a registered custom sound |
BLU supports three sound sources:
- Bundled sounds: Full Low, Medium, and High variants included with BLU.
- External sound packs: Addons discovered automatically or registered through BLU's public sound-pack APIs.
- User custom sounds: Compatible
.ogg,.mp3, and.wavfiles added from the Sounds tab or slash commands.
Open /blu, select the Sounds tab, and use User Custom Sounds to add a short filename such as myfile.ogg. BLU checks common AddOns locations and registers the first compatible match.
/blu addcustom myfile
/blu addcustom myfile.ogg
/blu addcustom Interface\AddOns\myfile.ogg | My Custom Sound
Sound-pack authors can use BLU:RegisterExternalSoundPack() for simple files or BLU:RegisterSoundPack() for complete Low/Medium/High packs. See the Sounds Guidelines for current layouts and examples.
When only a filename is supplied, BLU checks common AddOns locations and its
own sound directories. The first compatible match is registered under User
Custom Sounds. Use /blu refresh after adding or removing files and
/blu rescan after another addon registers media.
BLU:RegisterExternalSoundPack() bridges simple single-file packs.
BLU:RegisterSoundPack() registers complete BLU-compatible packs with volume
variants. The Sounds Guidelines
document the supported layouts and current API examples.
- Confirm WoW's Master volume is enabled.
- Use
/blu rescanafter another addon registers new media. - Use
/blu refreshafter adding or removing external/custom packs. - Some audio may pause briefly the first time WoW caches it.
- Confirm BLU and RGX-Framework are both enabled if
/bludoes not open. - Use
/blu debugand include the resulting context in reproducible reports.
- GitHub Issues for reproducible bugs
- RealmGX Discord for help, feedback, and sound suggestions
- Release history for detailed production and development changes
- GitHub Sponsors or Buy Me a Coffee to support development
Bug reports, translations, feature ideas, and sound suggestions are welcome. Keep reports focused and include reproduction steps when possible.
Development is maintained in the RGXMods GitLab repository, the source of truth for code and CI/CD. Public packages and release notes are published through RGXMods GitHub Releases.
Stable releases use version tags and package the addon for distribution. Development and release context is recorded in the changelog and roadmap.
BLU is available under the MIT License.
Made by DonnieDice for the RealmGX community.
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