Play sounds on build events

Overview

This plugin is able to play audio clips locally through sound hardware, remotely by piping them through an operating system command, or simultaneously through all browsers that are on a Jenkins page.

When outputting through local hardware, Sounds requires that the Jenkins' server machine has a working sound card and speaker that is not in a remote server room where there's no one around to hear it.

Jenkins can execute a command on a remote machine to play a sound sent through a pipe. This is normally an SSH command to a remote Linux based host that has a working sound card (e.g. 'ssh <host> play -').

If you have HTML5 Audio capable browsers you can configure Sounds to play sounds through all the browsers that are on a Jenkins page.

Compatibility

For all of the options there are varying degrees of support for the multitude of audio file formats. The most widely supported (but the most inefficient) is WAV.

Triggering Sounds

Configured build action

A job can be configured to play a sound as part of its action. You can have jobs dedicated to playing sounds on a schedule, or have the job play a sound as it does other actions.

Configured post-build actions

The build configuration allows you to select a sound to be played for any build state transition. You can configure:

• for any possible build result
• a list of previous build results
• the sound to play

External trigger

A sound can also be triggered by making an HTTP POST request and passing a URL to the sound to be played. This enables external tools to play sounds through Jenkins.

<Jenkins URL>/sounds/playSound?src=file:///home/jenkins/sounds/somesound.wav

Customising the sound archive

Making a sound archive

The sound archive is a simple .zip or .jar file containing sound files.

Jenkins analyses each file to detect whether it is a valid sound file supported by JavaSound. JavaSound supports AIFF, AU and WAV, see formats.

NOTE: The filename extension does not guarantee that the format is supported. If you have a file that doesn't play, try passing it though an conversion tool.

Jenkins ignores the archive folder structure (to simplify packaging) and uses the file name less extension as an ID, so keep the archive flat, or avoid having the same filename in multiple folders.

Publishing your sound archive

Jenkins Sounds can read an archive from the local filing system, or an HTTP URL.

• publish the archive on a local web server and use http://
• put the archive in Jenkins' local filing system and use file://

NOTE: Jenkins streams the audio from the archive for each event (to reduce memory requirements), so make sure it's not too far away.

Configure Jenkins to use your archive

Within the Configure System section of Jenkins Management locate the settings for Jenkins Sounds.

Enter the path to the archive.

• Absolute http:// and file:// URLs will be used unmodified.
• URIs without a protocol will be assumed to be filing system references and converted to file:// URLs.

After changing the sound archive location URL you must save the form before being able to test the sounds.

The Test Sound advanced option shows a list of the sounds found in the archive and their supported format.

Changelog

Version 0.6 (Mar 6th, 2020)

• Security fixes (stop CSRF attacks) https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-01-15/#SECURITY-814
• Removed JSONP option (for security reasons).
• Changed many requests to POST, which will likely require external triggers to supply a 'security crumb'.
• Replaced Prototype.js AJAX with plain JS XMLHttpRequest.
• Enforced security on administration of the plugin settings.

Version 0.5 (Jun 25th, 2016)

• Allow environment variables in piped command (tommikiviniemi-srs).

Version 0.4.3 (Oct 8th, 2013)

• Allowed local mute to be used by anonymous user when security is enabled (JENKINS-20081).
• Fixed incompatibility with Jenkins version 1.445 and upwards causing configuration of system command in pipe mode to fail (JENKINS-13825).
• Fixed error message when 'Sound archive location' field is left empty (JENKINS-19540).

Version 0.4 (Sep 1st, 2011)

• Major update to provide option where sounds are played simultaneously through all browsers showing a Jenkins page.

Version 0.3 (Mar 1st, 2011)

• Added capability of piping sounds through a system command (e.g. play on remote linux host)
• Added the sad trombone - the best build breaking sound effect .... ever!

Version 0.2 (Dec 6th, 2009)

• Internal sound archive restored if empty archive location submitted
• Use classpath URI to internal archive

Version 0.1 (Dec 2nd, 2009)

• Initial release