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tqdm_sound adds sounds to the well-known progress bar library TQDM.

It extends the TQDM base class, so anything you can do in TQDM you can do in this library.

It can self-mute during mouse or keyboard activity.

Motivation

I was renovating while running very long ML tasks, and I wanted a way of tracking how everything was going while I had paint on my hands.

This was inspired by the work of Ryoji Ikeda and includes sounds similar to data.matrix. You can create any set of WAV files for your project, but I picked this because it’s subtle and unobtrusive.

Use Cases

  1. Screen-free progress tracking

  2. Accessibility for developers using screen readers

  3. You hate your co-workers

Installation

pip install tqdm_sound

Examples

Basic Example

from tqdm_sound import TqdmSound
import random
import time

# Example usage:
if __name__ == "__main__":
    sound_monitor = TqdmSound(theme="ryoji_ikeda", activity_mute_seconds=1)

    my_list = [0] * 50
    progress_one = sound_monitor.progress_bar(my_list, desc="Processing", volume=100, background_volume=30, end_wait=1, ten_percent_ticks=True)
    for _ in progress_one:
        time.sleep(random.uniform(.2, .5))

Silence When Active

If you’re actively using your mouse/keyboard, you can silence the program via the activity_mute_seconds parameter. To mute for 5 seconds after mouse/keyboard activity:

sound_monitor = TqdmSound(theme="ryoji_ikeda", activity_mute_seconds=5)

my_list = [0] * 10
progress_one = sound_monitor.progress_bar(my_list, desc="Processing", volume=100, background_volume=30, end_wait=1, ten_percent_ticks=False)
for _ in progress_one:
    time.sleep(random.uniform(.2, .5))

Play Final Sound

This is just a shortcut to play program_end_tone.wav:

sound_monitor.play_final_end_tone(50)

Play Any Sound in the Theme Directory

Play any WAV file in the sounds/your_theme directory:

sound_monitor.play_sound_file('short_beep.wav', 50)

Sound Files

Add your own collection of sound files by adding a directory to the sounds folder, which will correspond to the “theme” argument.

Interval Sounds

click_###.wav are played at every interval that is not the start, middle, or end. You can have any number of these files in this format to increase/decrease variation.

Major Sounds

  1. start_tone.wav plays at the start of each loop.

  2. mid_tone.wav plays at the midpoint of each loop.

  3. end_tone.wav plays at the end of each loop.

  4. semi_major.wav plays at every 10% step when ten_percent_ticks=True.

  5. program_end_tone.wav is an optional sound that plays at the end of a given loop—this is just a convenience function you might use as the last loop in your program.

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