never-gonna-give-you-up v0.1.0

never-gonna-give-you-up

Because you need to play Rick Astley from your terminal

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Install

Requires Node.js v4 or newer

$ npm install -g never-gonna-give-you-up

Usage

# turn up your speakers real loud
$ rickroll
# listen to the sweet, sweet tunes

Notes

• The sound is synthesized into PCM audio then piped (via Node.js stream) to your speaker, using the below packages. Octavian makes working with actual notes pretty easy.

  • audio-generator
  • audio-speaker
  • octavian

• Would like to know the best way to create polyphonic sounds. Unsure if I can use something written for Web Audio API via polyfill, or if I should create several streams, or what.

• Dumping too much console output while the song is playing can cause errors in mpg123. I am not sure why.

• Had to fudge the song duration, because it wanted to cut too early. Again, not sure why.

License

Copyright 2017 Christopher Hiller. Licensed MIT.