🎵 nu_plugin_audio_hook

A Nushell plugin for generating and playing sounds. Supports beeping, tone generation, metadata manipulation, and playback for multiple audio formats.

✨ Features

• sound beep → Play a simple beep sound.
• sound make → Generate a noise with a given frequency and duration.
• sound meta → Retrieve metadata (duration, artist, album, etc.) from an audio file.
• sound meta set → Modify ID3 metadata frames in an audio file. More about ID3.
• sound play → Play an audio file. By default, supports FLAC, WAV, MP3, and OGG. Use the all-decoders feature to enable AAC and MP4 playback.

📌 Usage

Generate a simple noise

sound make 1000 200ms

Generate a noise sequence

[ 300.0, 500.0, 1000.0, 400.0, 600.0 ] | each { |it| sound make $it 150ms }

Play an audio file (first 3 seconds only)

sound play audio.mp3 -d 3sec

Retrieve metadata from an audio file

sound meta audio.mp4

Example Output:

╭──────────────┬────────────────────────────╮
│ duration     │ 4min 5sec 551ms 20µs 408ns │
│ artist       │ SINGER                     │
│ title        │ TITLE                      │
│ album        │ ALBUM                      │
│ album_artist │ SINGER                     │
│ track_no     │ 1                          │
│ total_tracks │ 1                          │
╰──────────────┴────────────────────────────╯

Modify ID3 metadata (change the artist tag)

sound meta set audio.mp3 -k TPE1 -v new-artist

Play an MP3 file using its metadata duration

sound meta audio.mp4 | sound play audio.mp3 -d $in.duration

List all available ID3 frame names

sound meta list

🔧 Installation

🚀 Recommended: Using nupm

git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_audio_hook.git  
nupm install --path nu_plugin_audio_hook -f  

🛠️ Manual Compilation

git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_audio_hook.git  
cd nu_plugin_audio_hook  
cargo build -r --features=all-decoders  
plugin add target/release/nu_plugin_audio_hook  

📦 Install via Cargo (using git)

cargo install --git https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_audio_hook.git --features=all-decoders  
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_audio_hook  

📦 Install via Cargo (crates.io) Not Recommended

Since I live in Iran and crates.io often restricts package updates, the version there might be outdated.

cargo install nu_plugin_audio_hook --features=all-decoders  
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_audio_hook  

🔍 Supported Features

You can enable specific features when compiling or installing:

• full → Enables all features below.
• flac (default) → FLAC format support.
• vorbis (default) → OGG Vorbis support.
• wav (default) → WAV format support.
• minimp3 → MP3 decoding.
• symphonia-all → Enables all Symphonia-based decoders:
  • symphonia-aac → AAC decoding.
  • symphonia-flac → FLAC decoding.
  • symphonia-isomp4 → MP4 (audio) decoding.
  • symphonia-mp3 (default) → MP3 decoding.
  • symphonia-vorbis → OGG Vorbis decoding.
  • symphonia-wav → WAV decoding.