what-the-beep

This extension allows you to play audio files at the click of a button (or via a command).

Setup

Under the hood, this extension utilizes the Python playsound module. Run the following to install it:

pip3 install playsound

Playing Audio Files

Static Audio Files

Audio files are played via VS Code tasks. To play a new audio file, simply create a new task in your user tasks file (open the command pallete and search for Tasks: Open User Tasks) with the following format:

{
"version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "type": "audioPlayer",
      "label": "Audio: break.wav",
      "file": "/absolute/path/to/my/audioFile.wav",
      "presentation": {
        "close": true
      }
    },
  ],
}

The type argument must be exactly audioPlayer and the file value must be an absolute path to your audio file.

All other fields are not unique to this extension and are outlined in this VS Code doc.

Keyboard Shortcut

These tasks can be executed via keyboard shortcuts:

{
  "key": "alt+b",
  "command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
  "args": {
    "task": "Audio: break.wav",
    "type": "audioPlayer",
  },
},

Once again, the args.type value must be exactly audioPlayer. The args.task value must match your task's label exactly as well.

Dynamic Audio Files

In progress...

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release!