ErrorBell 🔔

Play a sound every time an error or warning appears in your code or terminal.

Supports all languages VS Code has diagnostics for: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, Ruby, and more.

Features

🔴 Error sound — triggers when new errors appear in any file
🟡 Warning sound — triggers when new warnings appear
💻 Terminal detection — listens for error/warning output from any terminal command (npm, pip, gcc, php, pytest, etc.)
⏱ Cooldown — prevents sound spam (configurable, default 2s)
🔕 Toggle — click the status bar item or use the command palette to turn off
🎵 Custom sounds — point to your own .wav files

npm install -g @vscode/vsce
cd errorbell
vsce package
# Creates errorbell-1.0.0.vsix
# Then: Extensions panel → ... → Install from VSIX

Setting	Default	Description
`errorbell.enabled`	`true`	Enable/disable all sounds
`errorbell.playOnErrors`	`true`	Sound on code errors
`errorbell.playOnWarnings`	`true`	Sound on code warnings
`errorbell.playOnTerminalErrors`	`true`	Sound on terminal error output
`errorbell.cooldownMs`	`2000`	Min ms between sounds
`errorbell.customErrorSound`	`""`	Path to custom error `.wav`
`errorbell.customWarningSound`	`""`	Path to custom warning `.wav`

Platform	Audio Player Used
Windows	PowerShell `Media.SoundPlayer`
macOS	`afplay` (built-in)
Linux	`aplay` / `paplay` / `pw-play` / `sox`

ErrorBell scans terminal output for keywords from all major languages:

MIT