Hi Everybody,
I’ve created a network sound board that you can use to have endless fun with co-workers.
In my office quad we have one OSX machine that is used to play music for everyone, it’s usually running last.fm, pandora or someones iTunes library as background music for everyone. Occasionally it gets cranked up when it’s time to get the led out. I was thinking that it’d be fun to be able to trigger sound effects on that machine from my machine, kind of like what happens on radio shows, expect that my co-workers wouldn’t really be able to change the channel.
So the itch was scratched and I’m proud to present the network sound board. It should run out of the box on any OSX machine with a recent installation of Python. If you’re on Windows or Linux it’ll work if you can find a command line audio player. Anybody on the same network as the music machine will be able to trigger the sound effects from the comfort of their browsers. After you install there is a soundEffects folder that you can place sound files (.wav/mp3) into and they are instantly available, check the documentation for more info.
You can git the source from github at http://github.com/code128/networkedsoundboard/tree/master
It looks like this.
If you’re looking to extend it, adding the ability to upload new sounds from the flex interface would be sweet. If you do let me know.
Have fun.
P.S. If you can get samples of your co-workers saying things and add them to the server that would just be the icing on the comedy cake.