Vocal is a terminal program to play audio and to look cool while doing it.
git clone https://github.com/Jackboxx/vocal
cd vocal
make
make install| error | fixes |
|---|---|
Package alsa was not found in pkg-config search path |
try installing the alsa-lib-devel package on Fedora or these packages alsa-base libasound2 libasound2-dev libudev-dev on Ubuntu. |
Color of the audio graph, progress bar, text, and list items.
color = 'blue'| lower case | upper case |
|---|---|
| black | Black |
| red | Red |
| green | Green |
| yellow | Yellow |
| blue | Blue |
| magenta | Magenta |
| cyan | Cyan |
| gray | Gray |
| lightred | LightRed |
| lightgreen | LightGreen |
| lightyellow | LightYellow |
| lightblue | LightBlue |
| lightmagenta | LightMagenta |
| lightcyan | LightCyan |
| white | White |
| rainbow | Rainbow |
Color of the selected list item.
highlight_color = 'magenta'| lower case | upper case |
|---|---|
| black | Black |
| red | Red |
| green | Green |
| yellow | Yellow |
| blue | Blue |
| magenta | Magenta |
| cyan | Cyan |
| gray | Gray |
| lightred | LightRed |
| lightgreen | LightGreen |
| lightyellow | LightYellow |
| lightblue | LightBlue |
| lightmagenta | LightMagenta |
| lightcyan | LightCyan |
| white | White |
The directory that is loaded if no values are provided to the --load or --play flags.
All files in this directory are listed and can be selected to be played.
audio_directory = '$HOME/vocal/audio'The directory that logs of all events are stored. If there are 10 or more files in the log directory, files are removed until there are only 10 remaining files.
log_directory = '$HOME/vocal/logs'The prefix of the automatically created log files.
Log files have the following naming schema: {prefix}_{date}_{time}.log}.
log_file_prefix = 'vocal'Whether to show the hotkeys in the footer section while playing an audio track.
show_hotkeys = trueThe text in the shown in the footer section if show_hotkeys = false.
custom_footer = ""The volume level that audio will play at after the application is first started.
starting_volume = 50starting_volume = 100starting_volume = 0The speed that audio will play at after the application is first started.
starting_speed = 100starting_speed = 200starting_speed = 10The width of the bars in the bar chart shown when playing an audio track.
bar_width = 3The gap between bars in the bar chart shown when playing an audio track.
bar_gap = 1