Is there a way to adjust the volume for all types of players, not just a specifically named one? The example in the README says { afplay: ['-v', 1 ] /* lower volume for afplay on OSX */ }, but I don't want to just change afplay. I'd like to change whatever player is being used.

Play-sound depends on find-exec, and find-exec has a vulnerability. More info here https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/310, or run npm audit

i have this code:

const PlayFile =(FileName)=>{
    var audfile = tpath.join(__dirname,'../database/storage/media/'  ,FileName);
    console.log(' play ', audfile);
    if(doplay){
        doplay = false;
        localPlayer = player.play(audfile, function(err){
            console.log('end play')
            doplay = true;
            if (err) console.log("Error play" ,err);
        })
    }
}

when i run it normaly every thing works, but when i run it under root it gives me an error 1

i tried to make the file only for root user and for every user but steel not playing

Hello.

Sound is being looped. I'm running the sound on a setInterval at 80bpm.
It plays good at first, then it starts to loop multiple times.

I tried setting the interval function as async and then calling await on the player.play().
Didn't solve it.

Hope you can help, thanks.

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
CLI Audio Player: Mplayer

我想提高播放音效的实时性，是否支持播放Buffer

Hello, I would like to play mp3 files on a Windows computer.
I have installed the MPlayer and it also works when I call a track explicitly
mplayer "C:\Users\xyz\Downloads\MP3\Rock\test.mp3"

When I start the test, I get the message
"Error playing back file C:\Users\xyz\Downloads\MP3\Rock/test.mp3: 1"
\ and / are mixed and nothing is playing.

How do I have to store the directory and the files in the node?

here are some more questions:
How can I play the whole directory?
can I deposit my playlists?
can I use the commands start / stop / next / pause etc.?

I would be very happy about a feedback
Thanks already
Roland

You be nice if we were able to set the volume on some sort of scale for each sound played.

In the case of mplayer at least, a URL is valid input. It'd be great of play-sound would accept a URL too!

Does play-sound provide an option to know whether the player is running or not? As my function is runing at 3 times per second, if there are two audio files to be played then the second audio file breaks the player playing the first audio file and then plays the second file.

Is there a way to let the player play till the end of the current audio file and then play the next file in the queue?

Worked correctly only when player was specified in options. OSX 10.10.1, Node.js 0.10.22

Noticed you took over play.js (after noticing it was a bit nonactive), nice job! 👍

An open issue there was a request for stop functionality, thought of mentioning it here too as it still seems pretty relevant to this package.

Could probably be done with spawn instead of exec, hold reference and kill child, may possible also (partially) resolve #12.

(Also, was thinking, perhaps aplay could be added to the default players? It is pretty common on Linux systems)

I'm not getting any audio playback on windows. I installed mplayer and set it as the player manually; it looks like it's properly loading the sound but no audio is playing. Any one else get this issue?

I have installed mplayer for windows but still its giving this error.
[Error: Couldn't find a suitable audio player]

In case yes I suggest trying to find someone to take over. You got 5 pull requests unanswered.

As the title says

it would be cool if (when in the browser) this would create a new audio tag to play the sound

When I run the tests should I also be able to hear a sound? I know that sounds like a stupid question because there's no audio receiver to validate that a sound was played but I feel that it would be a useful cue for a person testing to see if an appropriate player were on their workstation.

From what I can see you've mocked all the play functionality so there wouldn't be a sound when a test is run.

Given that this module is all about sound I think that you have some leway in your tests and it would be neat if the test suite started off with an audible "starting" or "go" and "done" or "finished" at the end.

Good afternoon and thank you for your work.

I'm trying to play an audio file when I receive a value from a bluetooth characteristic on a Raspberry Pi. I'm using bleno for bluetooth.
I can play files following the example, but I cannot play them when inside the bluetooth loop and I don't know how to debug that. I'm not sure if it's because of being inside another process or because of something related with the event loop, or maybe because of the path of the file, but it does not throw an error. Also I'm using a setTimeout function with a number coming from bluetooth, but I've done that before without any issues.

This is the file in which I try to play an mp3 file:

const player = require('play-sound')();
module.exports.squeduleSound = function (seconds) {
    setTimeout(function() {
	playSound();
    }, seconds*1000);
};

function playSound() {
        console.log('Playing sound');
        player.play('./sound.mp3', (err) => {
                if (err) console.log('Could not play sound: ${err}');
	});
}

And this is the bluetooth callback, the onWriteRequest method is part of the bleno library:

var soundSqueduler = require('../audioPlayer/audioScheduler');
WriteTimeCharacteristic.prototype.onWriteRequest = function(data, offset, withoutResponse, callback) {
	this._value = data;
    	var seconds =  this._value.toString('utf8');
    	console.log('CustomCharacteristic - onWriteRequest: value = ' + seconds);
    	soundSqueduler.squeduleSound(seconds);
	callback(this.RESULT_SUCCESS);
};

I'm using node version: 8.11.1. (I can't use a newer one because of bleno. But I've done this in the past with this version.)
bleno version: 0.5.0
play-sound: 1.1.3

Thank you

I've run into an error when I try to run this code.

let player = require('play-sound')(opts = {});

player.play('Haywyre - Contagious.mp3', function (err) {
    if (err) throw err;
});

INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

Is anyone able to provide some insight into this?

const player = require('play-sound')(opts = {});


player.play('path/to/soundfile.mp3', (err) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error('Error occurred: ', err);
  }
});

When I try to run the code, no sound is played and instead the console throws an error saying

Error occured: 1

Hi,

I'm getting the error in the title when play-sound uses something like mplayer to play. The error is defined a bit here: robrich/gulp-exec#27 (not sure if play-sound uses that module or not).

My guess is that the "progress bar" (not really, just a count of the elapsed time) that mplayer generates is filling the output buffer for the process. Using something like afplay (which doesn't output anything at all) works perfectly.

Not sure how to fix it, but if possible, piping all the output of the commands to something like /dev/null (for UNIX systems, obviously :D) should fix the issue (or adding a parameter to every supported player to work in silent mode, but I'm not sure that's possible for all of them :P)

Since version 1.1.2 version you can't check if process was killed because err.killed always returns undefined (err is only a number, not an object).

Say I have a portable executable downloaded, and adjust my code as such:

var player = require('play-sound')({player: "/path/to/downloads/mplayer/mplayer.exe"})
player.play('foo.mp3', { "mplayer": ['-loop', 0] }, function(err){})

I'm unable to get the arguments to work.
However, if I adjust my code to use mplayer that has been installed on the command line, the arguments work and the song loops

var player = require('play-sound')({player: "mplayer"})
player.play('foo.mp3', { "mplayer": ['-loop', 0] }, function(err){})

So, how do I get the args to work on a portable mplayer? It plays but doesn't loop.

On Raspberry Pi 3B, using 'play' as player (which play-sound defaulted to in my case), the last second of audio output is cut off.

A .wav file saying 'four thousand' will sound like 'four thousa'

Setting {'player: 'play'} in the options has the same effect.
Playing the sound through play manually in the CLI (without args, just 'play output.wav') gives full audio output.

Switching to aplay (alsa-utils) resolves the issue, which was my prefered player anyway, so to me it's not really an issue...
Others might disagree :x

I can easily switch back and test more, report output or pass back more information about my setup.

I get errors when installing in RaspberryPi, something about the execSync.

player.play("http://somedomain.com/audio/demo.mp3", function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
});

const player = require('play-sound')();

player.play('alert.mp3', (err) => { if (err) console.log(Could not play sound: ${err}); });
Error: Couldn't find a suitable audio player
Error: INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

Thank you

Hi there,
I got this error when I use this npm with node --use_strict in my app

/Users/kstefan/DSTIL/Code/mqtt-play/node_modules/play-sound/index.js:23
isURL = this.player == 'mplayer' && this.urlRegex.test(what)
   ^

ReferenceError: isURL is not defined

Any idea?

Cheers,

Stefanus

`C:\Users\Cooper\Desktop\pp\app.js:5
if (err) throw err
^

Error: Couldn't find a suitable audio player
at Play.play (C:\Users\Cooper\node_modules\play-sound\index.js:34:19)
at Object. (C:\Users\Cooper\Desktop\pp\app.js:4:8)
at Module._compile (module.js:662:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:673:10)
at Module.load (module.js:575:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:515:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:507:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:703:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:193:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:660:3`

I've been trying all day to find a simple module that plays sound without a bunch of errors in nodejs, and play-sound has been one of the best so far. It works fine playing local audio, but when I try to play audio from a URL, it throws an error. I would prefer not to download the file to the user's computer then play it.

I am using this code and it throws an error:
player.play('https://audiocdn.bithop.stream/piano/0g.mp3', function (err) { if (err) throw err; console.log("Audio finished"); });

Is there any way to pause/resume audio?
Thanks

When I play a sound it keeps looping and it never ends...
Dose anyone have the same problem?

var player = require('play-sound')(opts = {player: "mplayer"})
player.play("test.wav", function(err){
  if (err){
    console.error(err);
  }
})

When I try to use the module it throws an error....

ReferenceError: opts is not defined

Not sure whats going on here.... when I try to remove (opts = {}) then it says there is no method called .play() can't seem to get around this error