Make Glados less annoying about doorbot HOT 8 CLOSED

Sounds like a plan. We should maybe also limit the length of tracks (15s or so).

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I was actually going to do two things in addition to this:

• 5s sound limit (Because really, we want to encourage short-and-snappy noises. Videogame sounds etc.)
• Speakers being moved into the lobby room (so the person hearing it is the person who tapped in), and the external speaker outside the back door (same reason)

That should stop it being irritating for people in the main room, and people in the rest of the space.

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Perhaps we should just rate limit sounds by length? A coin ding would fine for every entrance, a 1-up every hour and a 15s theme tune twice a day? That'll encourage people to use shorter sounds without breaking everything.

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That is a good plan. I like that plan. Some kind of scaled timeout based on sound length that kicks in over 5s?

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So I did a find *.wav | xargs soxi -D in the /home/glados/wavefiles/members to figure out what was the avg length of the files in there

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Possible solution from Cadmus:

import subprocess

# Working Sox Pipe
# time sox /media/library/Music/The_Terrible_Secret_Of_Space.mp3 -t wav - trim 0 00:05 | --norm sox -t wav - -t wav - | aplay

trunc_p = subprocess.Popen(["sox", "/media/library/Music/The_Terrible_Secret_Of_Space.mp3", "-t", "wav", "-", "trim", "0", "00:05"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
norm_p = subprocess.Popen(["sox", "--norm", "-t", "wav", "-", "-t", "wav", "-"], stdin=trunc_p.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
play_p = subprocess.Popen(["aplay"], stdin=norm_p.stdout)

play_p.wait()

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Also apparently just a single sox command works: "sox --norm file.foo -t wav - trim 0 00:05 | mplay".

And you can do sox -qd to play it.

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Looks like we also need remote volume control, as the required volume varies a lot between a Tuesday evening and a quiet afternoon.

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