falkirks / beep

♫ A collection of bash scripts playing various music using beep ♫

BEEP THE WORLD

♫ A collection of bash scripts playing various music using beep ♫

NEEDED

• UTF-8
• Only one beep command (if possible) : easily killable
• 5 spaces indentation : size of beep + space
• New line on -n and options space aligned : readable diff
• Punched card style (80 characters line width)

HOW TO BEEP (Ubuntu / Debian flavour) :

• Load this wonderfull module :

sudo modprobe pcspkr

• Delete permanently this hurtful statements in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf :

# ugly and loud noise, getting on everyone's nerves; this should be done by a
# nice pulseaudio bing (Ubuntu: #77010)
blacklist pcspkr

• You may need to unleash the beast with M in alsamixer :

TODO :

• https://github.com/jamdart/beep/commit/95dbf0e560f0b940611d2a3f2d712fd3df84426c
• https://github.com/sohooo/beep/commit/9480b678e693cfdccee031f432783ccc0fa1c852
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157670
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157670&page=4
• http://blog.dhampir.no/content/fun-with-beep
• http://kirrus.co.uk/2014/02/linux-beep-music-2/