[RELEASE] RP Soundboard

[RedPuma]

Hi,

some time ago I decided to write my own soundboard since I wasn't satisfied with existing solutions. And here it is: a simple yet powerful soundboard that requires NO COMPLICATED SETUP! Just install and it's ready to use. No extra tools, no fiddling with push-to-talk settings etc.
It comes with a set of predefined sounds but of course you can choose your own.

Download (Version 1.4.1.1810, June 16th 2019, for Teamspeak 3.3 or later
rp_soundboard_1810.ts3_plugin (6 MB)

Features:

• Almost any file type (mp3, mp4, wav, flac, ogg, avi, mkv, ...) is supported
• Supports playback of video files (just sound of course, this aint a video player)
• Crop sounds to play only your favorite portion of a sound
• Adjust volume gain for each sound file
• Set keyboard hotkeys for each of your buttons

Main Window:


Advanced Sound Settings:


How to open after installation:


Any sort of constructive feedback is appreciated.

Known issues

• Drag&Drop of files onto buttons is broken - seems like the cause is located in Teamspeak itself, there's not much I can do about it. Was probably caused by the update that revamped file transfers?

Changelog:
Version 1.4.1 (June 6th 2019):

• Updated API version to 23 to be compatible with Teamspeak 3.3
• Updated FFmpeg to 3.4.6

Version 1.4.0 (January 6th 2019):

• Fixed bug where buttons would become un-clickable if a hotkey was bound to mouse 1
  
  • should fix most "cannot klick anymore!!111" type errors
• Added simple command line interface, type "/rpsb -?" into the TS3 chat for help
• Update check is now done via HTTPS, increasing security
• Updated FFmpeg version to 3.4.5

Version 1.3.5 (July 21. 2017):

• Saving row and column count per profile
• Explicit check for updates option
• Updater doesn't check for new version every start
• Visualizing sound cropping in advanced sound settings
• Fixed custom background color (was broken by Teamspeak 3.1.5 update)
• Fixed sound decoding issues (notably webm again)

Version 1.3.4 (June 20 2017):

• Added filter box so you can find specific buttons
• Entering \n into the custom button text produces a newline
• Added possibility to set hotkeys for 'mute myself', 'mute on my client' and volume up/down: Right click on the respective control to set it
• New automatic volume regulation system eliminates distortions even if you crank up the volume to the max
• Fixed playback issues with certain rare file types, most notably webm
• Fixed incorrect initialization of speech bubble positions when main window is opened for the first time
• Updated API Version to 22
• Updated FFmpeg version to 3.3

Version 1.3.3:

• Choose between multiple configuration profiles (thanks Jim Mikola)
• Added import/export of configuration from/to file (thanks Jim Mikola)
• Added option to set custom button color
• Fixed the 'you are not connected' notice sometimes showing up for a brief period.
• Don't open main window before it's actually necessary (was opened on TS3 start and then hidden before)

Version 1.3.2:

• Buttons can be renamed
• Cropping of sounds should now be accurate down to the millisecond
• Made not connected warning not as annoying
• Fixed playback to others stopping when user releases PTT key

Version 1.3.1:

• Added pause button
• Added drag&drop
  
  • drag files directly onto buttons
  • drag a button on another button to switch them
• Added option to display bound hotkey directly on button
• Fixed playback issues (may fix distorted voice on some machines)
• Fixed voice activation issues (most notably when switching server tabs)
• Fixed switching of buttons with a button that never had any sound file set

Old versions
Last version for Teamspeak 3.0:
rp_soundboard_1459.ts3_plugin

Last version for Teamspeak 3.1 or 3.2:
rp_soundboard_1790.ts3_plugin

Please report all errors here or on GitHub
If you want to buy me a symbolic beer you can do that over at Paypal.

[hyprdmg]

Works great. A few friends and I were messing around with it and it's awesome!

Only feature I would enjoy, is a way to make it some sort of music bot. Such as load a playlist, or just load from a folder and play the sound files found in said folder.

Otherwise for its intended purpose 10/10!

[RedPuma]

Only feature I would enjoy, is a way to make it some sort of music bot. Such as load a playlist, or just load from a folder and play the sound files found in said folder.

Good idea, I may implement something like that in the future. Glad that you liked my plugin.

[bindik]

Greetings, I know this post is kinda off-topic but me and my mate are trying to create our own plugin where we want to play sounds/songs/music in the channel. We succeeded in playing .wav but failed in mp3 as we did not find any suitable libraries, can you share your library or example of the code that plays it?

Thanks, great job tho.

[RedPuma]

, can you share your library or example of the code that plays it?

My plugin is actually open source (although I don't advertise it as that):

https://github.com/MGraefe/RP-Soundboard

I use ffmpeg as my decoding library, have a look at src/inputfileffmpeg.cpp for all the low level stuff.

[thewolfpack_2]

Good idea, I may implement something like that in the future. Glad that you liked my plugin.

[lofnn]

Hi,
Your pluggin sounds perfect for me.
But i got an issu: it seems the player is compressing the song, fast playing the song. If the music is normaly 3min, when plays, it will be like 1min30.
I only tried mp3 files.

[RedPuma]

Hi,
Your pluggin sounds perfect for me.
But i got an issu: it seems the player is compressing the song, fast playing the song. If the music is normaly 3min, when plays, it will be like 1min30.
I only tried mp3 files.

Could you please upload the exact file that is causing the issue somewhere and give me the link?

[ElongEG]

Could you please upload the exact file that is causing the issue somewhere and give me the link?

i realy love your plug in i had like the first version you ever had please fix this it plays wav files way to fast like chipmunks

[RedPuma]

i realy love your plug in i had like the first version you ever had please fix this it plays wav files way to fast like chipmunks

Guys I need a sample file. Please give me a file that is causing issues.

[BasedKamisama]

I would provide a sample file like you asked, but I'm thinking this is a unique problem specific to us. It literally does it with ANY audio file I use, regardless of format as well. I've tried mp3's, m4a's, flac's, etc. Is there a way I can send you a teamspeak log or something?

Also, it didn't do this when I first installed this plugin, by the way. This only started happening a few days after I had installed it. When I first installed the plugin, however, my friends would notice that the file would play normally at first then after a while, it would start to speed-up or bug out for a bit, then return to normal.

[Ragen]

How to install it? where is setup??

[full_interest]

I opened an issue on your github, you probably didn't see it https://github.com/MGraefe/RP-Soundboard/issues/2

[RedPuma]

I opened an issue on your github, you probably didn't see it https://github.com/MGraefe/RP-Soundboard/issues/2

You are right, I didn't see it. Sorry for that
The info that this is happening when having multiple server connections is quite useful. This could be related to different channel codecs, especially when one channel is stereo (aka opus music) and the other (on the other server) is mono. Inserting mono-samples into a stream that is stereo would explain the doubled playback speed. Maybe my plugin gets confused about whether the output signal should be mono or stereo when switching server tabs. I will take a look next week.

Thanks so far for all feedback!

/Edit: Bug is now fixed. New version is up!

[BasedKamisama]

Not sure what this most recent update you pushed out did, but whatever it was, it appears to have fixed my playback issues. Things are playing at regular speed now and don't sound distorted. Let's see how long this lasts!