onhold 0.3.8

🔊 Play music while and after jobs complete

🔊 Play sounds while and after shell jobs complete

onhold is a command-line utility that allows you to play music while a long job completes.

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

Both utilities will take data that is piped into their standard inputs and pipe it to standard output. That is to say that data piped into onhold and ding will be piped right back out.

$ echo "Hello!" | onhold
Hello!

As a result, you can build pipelines with onhold and ding.

For example, you can download an ISO with http, visualize the progress with pv, play music with onhold while writing to /dev/null, 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 | onhold | ding > /dev/null

onhold

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

$ export ONHOLD="~/Music/song.mp3"
$ pv /dev/zero | onhold > /dev/null

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

You can also specify it with a flag.

$ pv /dev/zero | onhold -s song.mp3 > /dev/null

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

$ echo "Hello!" | onhold
Hello!

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 3.8+
• requirements.txt

Python

This project uses the assignment expression feature that was introduced in Python 3.8. Read below if you'd like to use this project in an older version of Python.

Older Python Versions

Use this project's Python 3.6 branch named python3.6, which was tested on Python 3.6. It might work on older versions, too.

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

GitHub

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

Help

onhold

$ onhold --help
Usage: onhold [OPTIONS]

  Play the specified sound file while data is passed in through standard
  input and passed through standard output.

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

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.