How can I play a sound when script execution is ready?

Question

I am executing every now and then some python scripts which take quite long to execute.

I execute them like this: $ time python MyScript.py

How can I play a sound as soon as the execution of the script is done?

I use Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome desktop).

Solution 1

Append any command that plays a sound; this could be as simple as

$ time mycommand; printf '\7'

or as complex as

$ time mycommand && paplay itworked.ogg || paplay bombed.ogg

(Commands assume pulseaudio is installed; substitute your sound player, which will depend on your desktop environment.)

Solution 2

spd-say

sleep 2; spd-say 'get back to work'

Infinite loop with -w if you need extra motivation:

sleep 2; while true; do spd-say -w 'get back to work'; done

or if you prefer the carrot:

sleep 2; while true; do spd-say -t female1 -w "I'm done, come back to me, darling"; done

Pre-installed on 14.04 via package speech-dispatcher: http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/ubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.manifest for blind people I suppose?

Also add a popup

This combo is a life saver (b stands for beep):

b() ( spd-say 'done'; zenity --info --text "$(date);$(pwd)" & )

and then:

super-slow-command;b

If I'm somewhere in the room, I'll hear it and know that the long job is done.

Otherwise, I'll see the popup when I get back to my computer.

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7035/how-to-show-a-gui-message-box-from-a-bash-script-in-linux

Solution 3

Just pick a sound on your hard drive, and put a command to play it right after the command you're waiting on; they'll happen sequentially:

$ time python MyScript.py; mplayer ~/ScriptDone.wav

(You can use any player, naturally). I have a script called alertdone that plays a tone and shows an libnotify alert when run; I use it for exactly this occasion:

$ time python MyScript.py; alertdone "Done timing"

It's really simple, so if you want to make your own you can base it on this (mine requires notify-more, mplayer, and ~/tones/alert_1.wav though):

#!/bin/bash
message=${1:-"Finished working"}
notify-more -t 10000 -i /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/actions/insert-object.png "Process Finished" "$message"
mplayer ~/tones/alert_1.wav

Solution 4

time python MyScript.py; play /path/so/sound.ogg

play is a very basic (no UI) sound player from the sox Install sox http://bit.ly/software-small package. You can replace it by any other command-line-driven sound player.

Solution 5

Personally, I use my-script && notify-send "done". This sends a desktop notification, which on Linux Mint(Cinnamon) looks like this:

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Comments

[Mikel]

Are you using bash or zsh? There are actually some ways of making this happen automatically, but they're quite involved and depend on which shell you are using.

[Robert Strauch]

$ echo $SHELL returns "/bin/bash"

[Gabriel Staples]

Same question: askubuntu.com/questions/277215/…

[Mikel]

notify-more or notify-send could indeed be useful alternatives to playing a sound.

[Mikel]

+1 paplay is probably the best command to use to play a sound on a "modern" Linux system.

[Michael Mrozek]

@Mikel I'm completely addicted to libnotify; everything on my system pops up notifications

[Robert Strauch]

printf '\7' doesn't work for me, but this command worked as I wanted it time python MyScript.py -n 40 && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/desktop-login.ogg || paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/phone-outgoing-busy.ogg

[Robert Strauch]

time python MyScript.py -n 40; paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/desktop-login.ogg worked, thanks.

[laggingreflex]

printf '\7' works for me (paplay doesn't; (git shell)) but it's just a very small bip. Are there more codes that make other sounds? I tried \6, \8 but they are some characters.

[musiphil]

@laggingreflex No, \7 (BEL) is usually the only character that possibly triggers a sound (see the Wikipedia article Control character); note that it may not always make a sound, either.

[user2469006]

paplay works well for me. You find a nice free notification sound from CyanogenMod, github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_base/tree/cm-12.0/‌​…. I'm using ogg/Adara.ogg which has a light percussive sound.

[cprn]

@laggingreflex You probably don't need this any more but just for laughs ;) for i in {1..30}; do for j in {1..3}; do printf '\7'; sleep 0.12; done; sleep 0.4; done

[dfarrell07]

To get the spd-say tool associated with speech-dispatcher, you may need to install a subpackage like speech-dispatcher-utils (Fedora 24).

[Antonio]

Brilliant! I used to use beep but it became so complicated to configure, spd-say it's a super cool readily available alternative!