How can I play a sound when my meteor server restarts? - meteor

Question

I have only one monitor and I find it hard keeping track of all the windows, and on top of that, I have a slow PC.
I am usually at my text editor, not seeing if the changes were loaded by Meteor.js. Is there anyway to play a sound when my meteor server restarts because of changes?
Bonus points: a different sound when there's an error preventing the startup.
Edit: I'm using Windows 7, but I'd also want to know how to do it on Mac and Linux.

Answer 1

You can use node for this:
meteor add meteorhacks:npm
Then run your project with meteor to create the packages.json file in your root directory
Add the below to the package.json so it looks something like this:
{
"play": "0.5.0"
}
Create a file on your desktop, a sound, e.g sound.wav
And play it on startup: (server side code):
Meteor.startup(function() {
var play = Meteor.npmRequire('play').Play();
// play with a callback
play.sound('~/Desktop/sound.wav', function() { });
//If you want to know when the player has defintely started playing
play.on('play', function (valid) {
console.log('I just started playing!');
});
//If you want to know if this can't play for some reason
play.on('error', function () {
console.log('I can't play!');
});
});
It should work on mac and windows too, just make sure you use the correct path, you may be better off with an absolute path to the file C:\Users....wav
You will need one of the following cli players to play the sound:
afplay
mplayer (Easiest installed on os x with brew install mplayer, on windows this may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/windows.html)
mpg123
mpg321
play
You can install any, so long as the platform can run one it should be ok.. If you download the raw binary for any of them be sure to add the directory the executables are in to your PATH environment variable.