Ventrilo versus Mumble

A comparison of two gaming voice systems.
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/18/ventrilo-vs-mumble/

By the way, Mumble got a rave review here.  Search on Mumble and Ventrilo to see more information collected elsewhere on the Solo MMO.
http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2010/07/mumble-new-voice-chat-software-with-rave-reviews/

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How to Stream Music Through Ventrilo

A guide to the process for those who want to raid to a little light music like Ride of the Valkyries.
http://thehealzsquad.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/guide-streaming-music-through-ventrilo/

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Interview with Top 10 Man Guild Leader

Pwnwise interviews the general manager of the top world-wide 10 man guild, Vox Immortalis.  Interesting to see how it is organized, how they recruit and their raiding schedule, how they come up with strategies to get through content quicker than anyone else, how they deal with latency, and to see some of the videos the guild has made.  The discussion of why they use Mumble instead of Ventrilo may interest guild members.  I found this interview insightful and interesting.
http://pwnwear.com/2010/04/25/interview-with-world-1-strict-10-guild-vox-immortalis/

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Let's Talk (via Mumble)

If you don't like Ventrilo or are a Mac user who has trouble using it, you may be interestedin Mumble.  Pwnwear hasn't used it but links to  the Mumble home page and several host server providers.  It is said to have few latency issues but Pwnwear hasn't used it and there are no Comments about how it works yet.
http://pwnwear.com/2010/02/07/mumble-and-murmur-voice-comms/

Here is Mumble's home page.
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

It gets a rave review here.
http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2010/07/mumble-new-voice-chat-software-with-rave-reviews/

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New WOW Branded Headset UPDATED WITH REVIEW

It comes out in November.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/18/creative-unveils-world-of-warcraft-headset/

UPDATE: WOW Insider writes a review of these which they saw at BlizzCon 2009. They are pretty but we all know handsome is as handsome does. Note that a foot pedal that activates Vent is mentioned here although it doesn't say if this is for all version of the headsets or just the high end ones.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/25/blizzcon-2009-hands-on-with-creatives-world-of-warcraft-headse/

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Headsets for Raiding

I've been researching headsets for Macs. Here are two which are highly rated. Note that Macs need an adapter to use a headset microphone in many cases. This is explained in the first link. http://www.macworld.com/article/133360/2008/05/beyerdynamic_mmx2.html http://www.cnet.com.au/logitech-premium-usb-headset-350-240064145.htm

This website explains how to set up a Mac client for Ventrilo. Ventrilo (also called Vent) is one of the two most used programs that allow in-raid chat. Teamspeak is the other. Note that your guild's server may need tweeking of its Ventrilo codec.
http://mdpull.blogspot.com/2008/06/ventrilo-on-mac-setting-it-up.html

This site compares Teamspeak and Ventrilo. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/963538.html

Many thanks to CD and King J for help.

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