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Soundux
A universal soundboard in Qt for linux using pulseaudio modules
Index
Introduction
I didn't find any good soundboard application for linux so I created one. It uses pulseaudio modules to achieve a universal interface. You can select every recording stream for the audio output. The GUI is written with Qt.
It is currently in alpha because I don't know if this works for everyone.
Runtime Dependencies
Please refer to your distro instructions on how to install
- pulseaudio
- mpg123 (optional: for playing mp3 files)
Compilation & Installation
Arch Linux and derivatives
You can install my package with your AUR helper of choice which will automatically compile and install the master branch
yay -S soundux-git
Other distros
Dependencies
This list may be not accurate. Contact me if you find missing dependencies that I can update this list
Install dependencies for Ubuntu and derivatives (Thanks to @Tibladar)
sudo apt install git golang-go qt5-default libqt5x11extras5-dev mpg123
go get qpm.io/qpm
Build
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/D3SOX/Soundux.git
cd Soundux
Install dependencies
# If you installed qpm via go
~/go/bin/qpm install
# Otherwise
qpm install
Create a build folder and start compilation
mkdir build
cd build
qmake ..
make
To start the program
./Soundux
Install
Automated Installation is currently not available but will be available in the future. (You may look into my arch package and figure it out for your distro)
Why Soundux?
Soundboard for Linux
License
The code is licensed under GPLv3
TODO
- Don't assume that the QListWidgetItem is a SoundListWidgetItem. Can we make SoundListView host SoundListWidgetItems
- Playlist mode (play sounds one after another)
- Improve the logo
- Volume normalization
- Play sounds while another sound is playing
- Organize code
- Grid View
- Save window size
- Save volume states (+ Sync state)
- Option to only trigger hotkeys from current tab
- Only modify audio players started from this programm (stop, volume)
- Fix volume slider not working while playback
- Save positions when tabs moved
- Localization
- Package it as deb and flatpak and create a repology
- Change back recording streams when the program is closed (to fix a bug when the program is closed while playing a sound)
- Make it cross-platform (help on how to pass the sound to an application in Windows/macOS is greatly appreciated)
- CTRL + F and focus search box
- Hotkeys for folder tabs
- Make UI responsive
- Search sounds
- Refresh button for folder tabs
- Find a fancy name
- CTRL+Q to quit
- Automatically update files in folders (on startup?)
- Separate volume sliders for me and for others (and a toggle to sync it)
- Global Hotkeys
- Check if dependencies are installed otherwise show a warning
- Repeat button
- Add support for other audio formats
- Add folders and automatically create a tab for it
- Create tabs to better organize your sounds
- Double click items to play
- Add multiple files at once
- Save configuration in .config folder instead of in the same folder as the binary
- Play sounds async
- Implement stop feature