@vdegenne/play-sound v1.0.1

@vdegenne/play-sound

Fork of play-sound with the following modern improvements:

• ESM compliant (see usage).
• Types are directly included in the package.
• Added ffplay player.
• Promisified (see usage).
• Removed unnecessary dependencies.
• Code cleaned.

Installation

npm i @vdegenne/play-sound

Examples

Basic

import {Player} from '@vdegenne/play-sound';
const player = new Player();

player.play('./assets/test.mp3');

Promise

import {Player} from '@vdegenne/play-sound';
const player = new Player();

const {promise} = player.play('./assets/test.mp3');
promise.then(() => console.log('audio ended'));

How to stop audio (Promise advanced)

import {Player} from '@vdegenne/play-sound';
const player = new Player();

const {promise, process} = player.play('./assets/test.mp3');

setTimeout(() => {
	// send signal after 1s
	process.kill('SIGTERM');
}, 1000);

try {
	await promise;
	// Audio was not stopped, continue...
} catch {
	// Audio was stopped prematurely
	// which is what will happen in this example
}

Choose base command + options

import {Player} from '@vdegenne/play-sound';
const player = new Player({player: 'ffplay'});

player.play('./assets/test.mp3', {
	ffplay: ['-nodisp', '-autoexit'],
});

Options

• players – List of available audio players to check. Default:
  • mplayer
  • afplay
  • mpg123
  • mpg321
  • play
  • omxplayer
  • aplay
  • cmdmp3
  • cvlc
  • powershell
• player – Audio player to use (skips availability checks)

License

MIT