PushSound

Plays a sound on git events (commit, push, pull, fetch, merge, rebase, checkout, reset, branch, tag, clone) in any git repository opened in VS Code.

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Features

• Play a custom sound on each git event: commit, push, pull, fetch, merge, rebase, checkout, reset, branch, tag, clone.
• Configure each event independently – leave a sound empty and that event stays silent.
• Optional text-to-speech: read the commit message aloud before the commit sound, using offline OS voices. See Text-to-speech.
• Provide a single file or a list of files – a random one is picked on each event.
• Works for actions made from anywhere: VS Code Source Control panel, integrated terminal, external terminal, third-party git GUIs. The only requirement is that the repository is opened as a folder in a VS Code window.
• No UI, no popups – plays sound through the system audio stack (afplay on macOS, PowerShell on Windows, paplay/aplay on Linux).

Detection is heuristic: events are inferred from VS Code's git state (HEAD, ahead/behind, refs, merge/rebase state), not by intercepting git commands. Some operations are indistinguishable through the API – e.g. a clean (fast-forward) merge reads as pull/commit, and a reset in a repo without an upstream reads as commit. merge fires on merge/conflict state.

Configuration

Open settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,) and search for "PushSound", or edit settings.json directly:

{
  "pushsound.enabled": true,
  "pushsound.volume": 0.8,
  "pushsound.sounds.commit": "/absolute/path/to/commit.wav",
  "pushsound.sounds.push": [
    "/absolute/path/to/push1.mp3",
    "/absolute/path/to/push2.wav"
  ],
  "pushsound.sounds.pull": "/absolute/path/to/pull.wav"
}

Every event is silent until you set its sound, so you can enable only the ones you want.

Text-to-speech (TTS)

When enabled, PushSound reads the commit message aloud (its first line) right before the commit sound plays. No files, no network, no models – it uses the built-in OS voices (say on macOS, System.Speech on Windows, spd-say/espeak on Linux), so it is offline and lightweight.

{
  "pushsound.tts.enabled": true,
  "pushsound.tts.voice": "Samantha",
  "pushsound.sounds.commit": "/absolute/path/to/commit.wav"
}

With the config above, committing “fix login bug” first says “fix login bug”, then plays commit.wav.

Tip: open Settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,), search pushsound tts, and just toggle the Tts: Enabled checkbox – no need to edit settings.json.

Notes:

• Only the commit event is spoken (the commit message); other events just play their sound.
• On macOS list available voices with say -v '?'; the spoken language follows the chosen voice (use a Russian voice like Milena for Russian commit messages).
• macOS has no per-call volume flag, so pushsound.volume is applied inline ([[volm …]]); on Windows it maps to the synthesizer volume.
• Linux requires spd-say (speech-dispatcher) or espeak to be installed; without them TTS is silently skipped.

Commands

• PushSound: Play sound (pick event)… – pick any event from the list and play its configured sound (for testing).
• PushSound: Play commit sound – plays the configured commit sound (for testing).
• PushSound: Play push sound – plays the configured push sound (for testing).

Supported formats

• macOS: anything afplay accepts – wav, mp3, aiff, m4a, caf.
• Windows: wav always; mp3 and other formats via Windows Media (PresentationCore).
• Linux: paplay accepts most formats; fallback aplay is wav-only.

Requirements

• VS Code 1.85 or newer.
• macOS / Windows: works out of the box.
• Linux: requires paplay (PulseAudio) or aplay (ALSA) to be installed.

License

MIT