🔊 Play sounds after shell jobs complete

ding is command-line utility that will play a sound after a long job completes.

The utility will take data that is piped into its standard inputs and pipe it to standard output. That is to say that data piped into ding will be piped right back out.

$ echo "Hello!" | ding
Hello!

As a result, you can build pipelines with ding.

For example, you can download an ISO with http, visualize the progress with pv, and when it's finished, play a sound with ding.

$ export URL="https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
$ http "$URL" | pv | ding > /dev/null

This project uses play_sounds, a wrapper over playsound and boombox.

ding

You can either set the $DING environment variable to the sound you'd like to play, or supply the sound with the -s flag.

# You can run ding after a command or as part of a pipeline
$ export DING="~/Music/ding.ogg"
$ sleep 5; ding
$ echo "Hello!" | ding
Hello!

This allows you to set $DING in your ~/.bashrc.

You can also specify it with a flag.

$ echo "Hello!" | ding -s ding.ogg
Hello!

ding comes with a default sound that will play if neither $DING or -s are set. You can use the -w flag to show warnings if $DING or -s are not set.

$ echo "Hello!" | ding
Hello!

Installation

Dependencies

• A Unix shell like Bash
• Python 3.6+
• requirements.txt

Linux

• GStreamer

On Ubuntu, you will need to install PyGObject, gstreamer1.0-python3-plugin-loader and python3-gst-1.0.

sudo apt install python3-gi gstreamer1.0-python3-plugin-loader python3-gst-1.0

PyPI

$ python3 -m pip install onhold_ding

GitHub

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 setup.py install

Help

ding

$ ding --help
Usage: ding [OPTIONS]

  Play specified sound after job is complete.

Options:
  -s, --sound_path PATH  Path to sound to play.
  -i, --ignore           Suppress warnings.
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

License

See LICENSE. If you'd like to use this project with a different license, please get in touch.

Credit

Music

See CREDIT.md.