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Sampler


BoD Sampler

What is it?

BoD Sampler is a small program to quickly play a small sound clip ("sample", or "jingle") from a collection.
You can use it for example at the office to play funny sounds in accordance to what your coworkers say or do.
For example somebody has a difficult task to do: play the "mission impossible" sample. Hilarity will ensue.
To my knowlege, it has no other use besides being fun.

In an environment where only one PC has a soundcard or speakers, but everybody wants to be able to play samples, BoD Sampler can be used:
it has a client/server architecture. The server runs on the PC that can play sounds, and several clients can run on the other PCs.
When somebody click on a sample on the client application, a network command is sent to the server application, which will play the sample.

Requirements

  • JDK 1.6 or more recent

Usage

  • Server (or stand-alone):
    • Download the bod-sampler-bin.zip file below
    • Unzip it to a directory of your choice
    • Add samples (see below) in the samples directory
    • Start server.bat (windows) or ./server.sh (unix)
  • Client:
    • Download the bod-sampler-bin.zip file below
    • Unzip it to a directory of your choice
    • Start client.bat server_address (windows) or ./client.sh server_address (unix), where server_address is the ip address
      or name of the machine where the server is running
  • Samples: each sample must be a wav file, named xx_yy_name.wav
    • xx is a two digits number, that will be used to order the samples
    • yy is a number from 0 to 100 that can be used to adjust the volume of the sample
    • name is the name of the sample that will appear on its button to click

License

BoD Sampler and its source are in the public domain.

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