New Messenger Plus! 3.50 feature REVEALED

got this from mess.be:

EXCLUSIVE: New Messenger Plus! 3.50 feature REVEALED

dwergs says:

I’m very excited and proud to exclusively announce the new “killer feature” Patchou has been working on for two months (which is a lot more than the time spent on anything else in Messenger Plus! since its creation). Get ready for Custom Emotion Sounds… to be included in the Messenger Plus! 3.50 release in March 2005! The Custom Emotion Sound feature brings sound integration in MSN Messenger to the next level and allows you to add and send any sound you want to your contacts. Sounds can be created from sound files on your hard drive (like mp3s), recorded live from your microphone or imported directly from sound packs on the web. >> Screenshot Custom Emotion Sounds: Sound received & Panel. Each sound is cut (maximum of 10 seconds, more would just be annoying after a while) and automatically compressed to improve transfer time. The whole interface has been polished, wizards are extremely easy to use, recording and sound editing can be done with a couple of mouse clicks. As you can see, you don’t have to be a sound engineer to use Custom Emotion Sounds >> Screenshot Custom Emotion Sounds: Wizard. In the chat window, a specially designed panel has been created to accommodate the new feature and is accessible from a new Messenger Plus! toolbar (those of you who will miss the 25 pixels of width can disable it and access the feature with a shortcut). The panel gives quick access to the sounds, organised by categories or stats, and also lets you instantly download new sounds at random from the web, including all the sounds previously sent by other people (except the sounds marked as by users as “private”). >> Screenshot: Custom Emotion Sounds: Get random sounds. >> Screenshot Custom Emotion Sounds: Quick Access Panel. When a sound is received, the message displayed (see image to the right) is similar to what Messenger displays for some of its features. You get a link to play or stop any of the previously sent sounds at any time. You also have the option to automatically download and automatically play new sounds when they arrive. And to conclude, any sound you receive is automatically added to your own personal sound library so that can send it back easily to somebody else. >> Screenshot Custom Emotion Sounds: Personal Sound Library. >> Screenshot Custom Emotion Sounds: Sound Properties. More advanced users may have preferred something more “l33t”, but from the usage stats Patchou has learned that the Sound Commands are the current most popular feature. And the few people who have already tested this feature just love it: “It’s like winks, only more fun and more usable during a conversation,” said one happy BETA-tester. This is the biggest, but definitely not the only improvement in the upcoming Messenger Plus! 3.50. But you’ll hear more about that later!

That looks soo cool, go Patchou!