Distributed Soundboss

A distributed soundboard, using websockets!

Anyone with this webpage open will be able to spam others by playing short sound clips.

Getting started

Start the server:

./script/server

Go to http://localhost:3000/

Development

Run guard to automatically compile coffeescript and sass files.

Sounds

To add sounds to the soundboard, create MP3 and Ogg Vorbis versions of your sample, and put these in the ./public/audio folder. Make sure to remove leading/trailing silence and normalize the volume so it's not too loud or soft compared to the other sounds.

Next, add a single line to the <ul> list in the ./public/index.html file, with a data-file corresponding to the files you created.

For example, to add a 'cool-whip' sample, create cool-whip.mp3 and cool-whip.ogg files, add them to ./public/audio, and add the following line in index.html:

<li data-file='cool-whip'>COOL WHIP</li>

To convert a sound to both .ogg and .mp3, run:

./script/convert /path/to/sound.wav

To add multiple versions of a sample, add a numeric suffix to the filenames (e.g. jobs1.ogg, jobs2.ogg, etc.), and add a data-versions attribute with the number of files to the HTML entry:

<li data-file='jobs' data-versions='11'>THEY TOOK'R JUBS</li>

A random sound will be played for every listener.

Audio tools

Some tools to use:

• Audacity (free audio editor)
• YouTube mp3 (to download the audio of YouTube movies)