This Visual Studio Code extension automatically turns you into a very skilled hacker by playing movie-like sounds while you write code.

On Linux, you will need to have mplayer installed and on your PATH to get this extension working.

Debian based

sudo apt-get install mplayer

Red Hat based

sudo dnf install mplayer

Arch based

sudo pacman -S mplayer

No special requirements.

Run code --install-extension mattogodoy.hacker-sounds

or search Hacker Sounds in Extensions Marketplace.

Hacker Sounds will start immediately when Visual Studio Code is started. However, you can enable and disable the extension by executing these commands in the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P):

• Hacker Sounds: Enable
• Hacker Sounds: Disable

You can adjust the volume of the sounds by executing these commands in the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P):

• Hacker Sounds: Volume Up
• Hacker Sounds: Volume Down
• Hacker Sounds: Set Volume

NOTE: The volume adjustments only apply to this extension's sounds. It does not affect the system volume.

The extension is in a very early stage. Please report any issues / bugs you find.

Any pull request is welcome.

• Fixed bug in which manually setting the volume went always to minimum or maximum.
• Redacted some of the messages.

• Minor fixes

• Fixed dependency error

• Now you can type the volume level directly using the Hacker Sounds: Set Volume command.
  • Thanks, Onur Yüksel!

• Now you can adjust volume levels for Mac, Windows and Linux. This feature has not been tested in Linux yet.
• Merged Pull Request #5
  • Thanks, Jory Liang!
• Replaced sWavPlayer for sounder as the Windows sound player with the following benefits:
  • Much smaller in size (sounder is 33 KB and sWavPlayer was 878 KB)
  • Performance in Windows is greatly improved
  • Allows to set the volume
• Updated dependencies

• Sounds improved in volume level and quality.
  • Thanks, exoticus!
• Merged Pull Request #3
  • Thanks, tiansin!

• Merged Pull Request #2
  • Thanks, tiansin!

• Refactored part of the code
• New and better sounds

Fixed issue #1

Added fix for Windows. It's working now 🎉

Updated README information.

Initial release. Working on macOS.

For Windows, this extension uses the sounder light-weight player: https://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/commandline-wav-player.php

Hack the world!