I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me

Does anyone know a good way to make this happen?

I imagine it’d have to be setup like:

when chrome starts playing audio && check if that audio matches soundfile.ogg && myscript.sh, but I don’t know any good cli utilities that could get something like that done, and if there are any better ideas!

edit: to avoid X/Y issues i’ve summarized the problem in full here:

  1. I have a work program, this notifies me if I get a call or email, the work program then presents an accept/decline page, and does not proceed until I either accept, decline, or it times out.
  2. I want it to do two different things depending on if it’s a call or email
  3. It provides no notification other than the sound and an “accept” button on the page
  4. I have a chrome window open that does nothing but this, and I never use chrome for anything else
  5. I want to automatically do various things when I receive either this call or email
  6. I want it to be broadly applicable rather than a script designed for the specific website giving me the notification (so not a chrome extension). This prevents me from having to update any code in the event that the backend changes dramatically, and even if the notification sound changes, i’d just record a new sound as the activation noise.
  7. The noise is always the same, and hasn’t changed for many years, and there is a distinct noise between calls and emails
  8. They never overlap, they never play multiple times at the same time, and they never make any noises other than those two. The noises are distinct.

These factors cause me to want to run a script once the noise is recognized, only if the noise is playing in a particular app. I’m using pipewire/hyprland on arch.

My current plan for isolating the noise is to do the following:

pactl load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=‘Work’ slaves=‘easyeffects_sink’

and then set chrome exclusively to play audio on work.

Then set a script to check the sink work for audio that matches what I want. That should be simpler than the other methods i’ve seen to isolate the noise.

  • CommunistOP
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    -43 months ago

    Not if it’s specified to a single app

    My chrome is literally only used for this, as are my other ideas, so, as long as it’s half-decent at one specific sound per app it should work…

    in theory

    • @embed_me
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      43 months ago

      Sure if it doesn’t play any other sound concurrently

          • CommunistOP
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            33 months ago

            There are two sounds it makes, they just never overlap

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Or at least you think so. Are you sure for example that the trigger sound can not play more than once at a time, before the first one has finished?

          And then what if the webpage updates the sound it plays?

          • CommunistOP
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            3 months ago

            I am completely sure that cannot happen, the noise plays once until I deal with it

            if it updates I’ll just make a new recording, but it has been the same for over 3 years