I wiped my gmod today, (01/07/2010) and joined the server, finding that it took me 20 minutes to download all the sound files on it. This is way above the average Gmodder's attention span, and as Gmod checks for maps after you download the files, it could get frustrating for any newbies.

After all, we now have PlayX to play most of them
As the Scrapheap is always looking for new players, we need to decide, as a community, to do either:

- Remove The Sound Files

- Compress The Sound Files - quite a bit (so they download more quickly)

- Remove/Compress Certain Sounds (Read List Below)

- Do Nothing

List of Sounds that are Set to Download:

- ateam
- badboys
- barrelroll
- bennyhill
- dancenow
- feelgood
- ghost
- mario1
- mario2
- mario3
- mario4
- money
- nanana
- nomnomnom
- oneandonly
- petertime
- powerup
- rumble3
- runbitch
- taliban
- tetris1
- tetris2

- accessdenied
- banana
- bangholeangry
- bellair
- comego
- gameover
- haha1
- halloween
- horn1
- horn2
- horn3
- horn4
- loool
- pingas
- pipitheme
- powerdown
- seatbelt
- thomas

in total, that's 5.67MB

We don't need most of the sounds, I would keep 1 or 2 of the 'horn' sounds tho

To be honest the sounds aren't really used anyway way and, like you said, we have PlayX if sounds are every wanted to be played. so my opinion is to remove them all. I doubt any new person to the game or people new to the server would want to wait 20 minutes just to join because they need to download sounds.

I say remove all but the most used ones, then compress the rest

Quack

Sounds are a good addition to servers, a little funky thing to have, as long as it isn't excessive.

Now, if you give me the names of the addons, I may be able to modify them to they dont force download. This would mean that you would have to download them manually and add them yourself to be able to hear them. This would offer the best of both.
However, you may want some specific sounds to be downloaded, and some not. This may also be achievable through lua modification, but will probably require config files.

In which ever case, we must keep horn4.

keep - barrelroll, horn4, pingas, seatbelt and bellair

im easy

why keep bellair and seatbelt? they can be played using the playX player

They would be good for maybe a dj or just music for the player only

ok then, I'm going to try and compress:
horns 1 - 4
pingas
barrelroll
thomas
bellair

and the rest will be removed
(seatbelt is too long)

u keeping thomas????? wtf man?

and seeing as i had deleted gmod and had to downlaod everything again, it did not take long.. like 3-4 mins maybe so seatbelt ain't guna make a difference