Success Sound 🎵

Plays a sound every time your program executes successfully — because your wins deserve to be heard.

How It Works

Success Sound listens for two types of executions:

• Tasks — anything run via Ctrl+Shift+B, Tasks: Run Task, or npm scripts
• Debug Sessions — anything run via F5 or the Run & Debug panel

When your program finishes successfully, your chosen sound plays automatically.

Features

🎵 Auto-plays on successful execution

No setup needed. The moment your program finishes with exit code 0, your sound plays.

🎛️ Pick your own sound

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run:

Success Sound: Select Sound

Browse through sound categories, arrow up and down to preview each file — it plays automatically as you hover. Press Enter to select.

⬅️ Back button in sound picker

Changed your mind about the category? Hit the ← Back option at the top of the sound list to return to category selection without losing your place.

🔍 Arrow key preview

When browsing sounds, each file plays once as you hover over it. Moving to the next file stops the previous one and plays the new one. No overlap, no spam.

🔇 Disable sounds

Run this from the Command Palette to silence everything:

Success Sound: Disable

🔊 Default sound out of the box

On first install, arcade-loose from the retro category is set as your default sound — so it works immediately without any configuration.

✅ Always enabled

Success Sound is enabled the moment you install it. It stays enabled until you explicitly run Success Sound: Disable. Selecting a new sound also re-enables it automatically.

Commands

Adding Your Own Sounds

Drop your .mp3 or .wav files into the media folder inside the extension, organized by category:

media/
  retro/
    arcade-loose.wav
    arcade-jump.wav
  fart/
    fart-1.mp3
  meme/
    bruh.mp3
  your-category/
    your-sound.mp3

Any new folder becomes a category in the picker automatically.

Supported Formats

Platform Support

Requirements

• VS Code 1.85.0 or higher
• Windows OS (uses PowerShell's MediaPlayer internally)

Known Limitations

• Cannot detect programs run directly in the terminal (e.g. node file.js typed manually) — VS Code does not give extensions access to raw terminal output
• Sound plays on any successful debug session end, including ones you stop manually

Made by bhargavKallepally