Playnite Sounds Extension

Playnite Sounds is an extension to play audio files during Playnite events. It can only play WAV audio files and mp3 for music, nothing else.

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Audio Files

Generic Info

There are 2 seperate set of sound files. Audio Files starting with 'D_' and files starting with 'F_'. The 'D_' files are the audio files for desktop mode, the 'F_' files for fullscreen mode. If you don't want to hear a certain file you can just delete the wav file of the event you don't want to hear. You can also change the files with your own files. Be sure to use the 'Open Audio Files Folder' menu for doing so. It will make sure loaded audio files get closed so you can overwrite them. Make sure playnite does not play any audio anymore after opening the folder or it's possible you can't overwrite that specific file. With my testings it did seem you could still first erase the files. After changing the audio files use the 'Reload Audio Files' menu to clear any loaded files and use your new files, or just restart Playnite. Do NOT use a long audio file for ApplicationStopped as Playnite will not quit until that audio file has finished playing. The same applies for switching between desktop and fullscreen mode.

Audio files that can be used

They are located in the sounds folder of the extension, you can open that folder using the main playnite menu -> Extensions -> Playnite sounds -> Open Audio Files Folder

Event	Desktop	Fullscreen
Playnite Startup	D_ApplicationStarted.wav	F_ApplicationStarted.wav
Playnite Exit	D_ApplicationStopped.wav	F_ApplicationStopped.wav
Game Installed	D_GameInstalled.wav	F_GameInstalled.wav
Game UnInstalled	D_GameUninstalled.wav	F_GameUninstalled.wav
Game Selected	D_GameSelected.wav	F_GameSelected.wav
Game Starting	D_GameStarting.wav	F_GameStarting.wav
Game Started	D_GameStarted.wav	F_GameStarted.wav
Game Stopped	D_GameStopped.wav	F_GameStopped.wav
Game LibraryUpdated	D_LibraryUpdated.wav	F_LibraryUpdated.wav

Create your own Audio files

A very simple and free tool to create (game) sounds is SFXR, you can use it to create certain blip and blop sounds and perhaps use it to create your own sound files to be used with Playnite Sound extension. If you want to record your own sounds or edit existing sounds you could use audacity

SFXR: https://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/

Translation

The project is translatable on Crowdin

Thanks to the following people who have contributed with translations:

• Spanish: Darklinpower
• French: M0ylik
• Polish: Renia
• Italian: Federico Pezzuolo (3XistencE-STUDIO), StarFang208
• German: kristheb
• Hungarian: myedition8
• Porutgese, Brazillian: atemporal_ (Atemporal), JCraftPlay
• Ukrainian: SmithMD24
• Norwegian: MeatBoy
• Czech: SilverRoll (silveroll)
• Korean: Min-Ki Jeong
• Chinese Simplified: ATNewHope
• Arabic: X4Lo

Credits

• Original Playnite Sound Plugin by joyrider3774
• Used Icon made by Freepik
• Original Localization file loader by Lacro59
• Sound Manager by dfirsht
• Downloader Manager by cnapolit

Theme Integration

Extension expose custom control to manage Music playing: Sounds_MusicControl. Using this control it is possible to:

• Pause/Resume music for example during trailer playback
• Retrieve current Music filename to show music title

Show current Music name

Current Music filename (no path, no extension) is exposed via Content.CurrentMusicName property and {PluginSettings Plugin=Sounds Path=CurrentMusicName} you may use in via binding:

    <ContentControl x:Name="Sounds_MusicControl" />
    <TextBlock
        Text="{Binding ElementName=Sounds_MusicControl, Path=Content.CurrentMusicName}"
    />

or

    <TextBlock
        Text="{PluginSettings Plugin=Sounds, Path=CurrentMusicName}"
    />

Pause/Resume during trailer playback

Theme may control music track via Tag property manipulation and pause Music on 'True' value and Resume on false.

Here how it can be implemented in theme GameDetail.xaml

  <Style TargetType="{x:Type GameDetails}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type GameDetails}">
                    <Grid>
                        ...
                        <ContentControl x:Name="Sounds_MusicControl" />
                        ...
                    </Grid>
                    ...
                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                        <DataTrigger
                            Binding="{Binding ElementName=ExtraMetadataLoader_VideoLoaderControl_NoControls_Sound, Path=Content.IsPlayerMuted, FallbackValue={StaticResource False}}"
                            Value="{StaticResource False}">
                            <Setter
                                Property="Tag"
                                Value="{Binding ElementName=ExtraMetadataLoader_VideoLoaderControl_NoControls_Sound, Path=Content.SettingsModel.Settings.IsVideoPlaying}"
                                TargetName="Sounds_MusicControl" />
                        </DataTrigger>

                        <DataTrigger
                            Binding="{Binding ElementName=ExtraMetadataLoader_VideoLoaderControl_NoControls_Sound, Path=Content.IsPlayerMuted, FallbackValue={StaticResource False}}"
                            Value="{StaticResource True}">
                            <Setter
                                Property="Tag"
                                Value="False"
                                TargetName="Sounds_MusicControl" />
                        </DataTrigger>

                        <DataTrigger
                            Binding="{Binding ElementName=PART_ElemGameDetails, Path=Visibility}"
                            Value="Collapsed">
                            <Setter
                                Property="Tag"
                                Value="False"
                                TargetName="Sounds_MusicControl" />
                        </DataTrigger>
                    </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>