new sounds

[ornicar]

• [x] move
• [x] capture
• [x] check
• [x] game victory
• [x] game defeat
• [x] game draw
• [x] tournament victory
• [x] tournament second
• [x] tournament third
• [x] tournament lower ranking
• [x] tournament start count down (10, 9, 8, ..., 1, go!) ideally one file per second (for people who join like 4 seconds before it starts for instance) (could also be used for tournament end)
• [x] new challenge
• [x] new PM
• [x] generic notification to use in other situations that require user attention
• [x] atomic chess explosions! http://lichess.org/tv/atomic
• [x] clicking the Berserk button (half the time on clock, on more tournament point)
• [x] low on time

and anything else you can think of!

If you want to, we can have several sound themes.

[Unihedro]

New PM could be a louder / pitched up version of new message in chat.

[Enigmahack]

I'll set up multiple sound themes but I'll try and complete one at a time. Something else I was thinking was to have different sounds for first/second/third place in tournaments as well. Like...

3rd: Ta Da! (Imagine a horn sound or something) 2nd: Dum Ta Da! 1st: Dum du-de dum dum Ta Da! (Bigger more extravagant sounds for first but still short)

Also, what about different sound effects for different special awards? The bongcloud could have been a bubble sound right? Just some ideas anyway.

**edit - self note: Both in MP3 as well as OGG formats

[ornicar]

Excellent! I added entries for different tournament positions.

About the awards, I'm not sure how useful it would be. There aren't any awards available at the moment, but I'll let you know if/when there are.

[Enigmahack]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49099211/LiChess/LiChessPianoTheme.zip

This link is to a trial of sorts. I didn't have time to design sounds tonight, so I just recorded some sounds on my piano. Everything you hear here (Including captures and moves) are piano sounds so it's a true "Piano only" theme.

Anyway, we can use this as a test while I get a good workflow going for other sounds. I'll start with a standard set soon enough of actual sound effects, but thought this could be fun too.

[ornicar]

Wow, these sound great already :+1: Excellent recording and coverage of the different events :) Tournament wins are grand. This is very exciting! I can't wait to hear more!

[Enigmahack]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49099211/LiChess/NESTheme.zip

Sorry for the delay - I've been working on my band doing rehearsals and my keyboard wasn't in the studio. I've gotten a few things together, though I wanted to present the "NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) Theme" where all of the sounds are from the NES (or sounds very similar anyway)

I'll start getting to more "regular" themes soon as well, but thought this would be fun, if you wanted to start making these available as I make them perhaps?

Also wanted to ask: Is there a particular naming scheme you'd like to follow so we can just have "plug and play" into the website?

[ornicar]

Haha they're great :D I was waiting for this second theme before I get to the coding. Time for me to pull up my sleeves and put them sounds everywhere. I'll let you know when it's ready, and about the naming conventions.

[ornicar]

Just so we're on the same page, these sounds are gonna be licensed under MIT, which means everybody can use/modify them at will, even for commercial purpose. Like everything in lichess. You OK with this?

[arex1337]

Great themes!

[Enigmahack]

Absolutely! That's good with me :-) On Jun 26, 2015 5:06 PM, "Thibault Duplessis" notifications@github.com wrote:

Just so we're on the same page, these sounds are gonna be licensed under MIT, which means everybody can use/modify them at will, even for commercial purpose. Like everything in lichess. You OK with this?

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[ornicar]

List of sound names: https://github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/public/javascripts/big.js#L1043

For now only 5 sounds supported, I'm implementing more.

Sound sets are organized in public/sound/{set}: https://github.com/ornicar/lila/tree/master/public/sound Each set directory must contain all sound files. Sounds that are not used yet are in public/sound/{set}/stock. Missing sounds are replaced with a symlink to another sound for now. Example: https://github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/public/sound/piano/Explosion.mp3

[ornicar]

From now on, if you would make PRs to directly add/modify sounds in public/sound/{set}, it would be coonvenient :)

[ornicar]

It's online.

Maybe some volume normalization is due. You can play any sound from your browser console (like $.sound.move()). I may also add a sound test page tomorrow.

[ornicar]

Here's a sound test page: http://en.lichess.org/assets/sound/test.html

It should help normalizing sound volumes!

[ornicar]

Well I'm done here, all sounds are applied (Will be online tonight). What remains to be done:

• [ ] normalize sound volumes using http://en.lichess.org/assets/sound/test.html
• [ ] more standard sounds
• [ ] more themes?

[Enigmahack]

That's awesome. I checked it out last night actually, and definitely need to normalize/compress the sounds so they're all a consistent volume. This is easy enough to do though.

I'll get to work on more themes and standard sounds as well. Any ideas of things you'd like to see for themes? I did the NES one more as a joke, but it actually turned out not too badly.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Thibault Duplessis < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Well I'm done here, all sounds are applied (Will be online tonight). What remains to be done:

• normalize sound volumes using http://en.lichess.org/assets/sound/test.html
• more standard sounds
• more themes?

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[ghost]

@Enigmahack For the NES sounds, I reckon you might want to replace some of the files with sounds from actual NES games.

Examples worth evaluating: the 1up sounds from Super Mario Bros 3, the power flower sound from Super Mario Bros 3, the little tune that plays at the very end of Super Mario Bros, the item get sound from The Legend of Zelda, all the sound effects from Duck Hunt (which gives room for easter eggs, especially the dog laughing when you fail)...

[Enigmahack]

I had considered it, but the reason I didn't was related to copyright concerns. I wouldn't want to get into anything like that, so instead did Nintendo - inspired sounds. That way it's original, no issues with copyright concerns and it still gets the idea across. On Jun 29, 2015 11:57 AM, "Evropi" notifications@github.com wrote:

@Enigmahack https://github.com/Enigmahack For the NES sounds, I reckon you might want to replace some of the files with sounds from actual NES games. Examples: the 1up sounds from Super Mario Bros 3, the power flower sound from Super Mario Bros 3, the little tune that plays at the very end of Super Mario Bros, the item get sound from The Legend of Zelda, all the sound effects from Duck Hunt (which gives room for easter eggs, especially the teasing dog)...

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[ornicar]

I wouldn't know which theme to add, but I do trust you entirely to find something great :)

[ghost]

@Enigmahack Fair enough... I just couldn't help but notice that you straight-up copied the explosion sound from The Legend of Zelda and the victory sound from Final Fantasy. :) Nintendo has been known for strict copyright enforcement, but not on older games (hell, Zelda Classic has been going strong for 10+ years). I wouldn't worry about it too much -- if you want to include an NES theme at all, I say make it as nostalgia-riddled as possible because no-one is going to stop you for legal reasons.

[Enigmahack]

@Evropi You want to know something funny? I've never actually played the old NES Zelda/FF games. Every sound I made was made on a Korg Kronos 2, so it was entirely coincidental (or oddly subconscious). It makes me want to go back and check what they did, and see how close the sounds actually were.

I see what you're saying though. The only reason I'd be worried about copyright is because while the games are old, they're also currently existing in the Wii U emulated versions of games that are being sold currently on the Nintendo market.

At the end of the day, are they REALLY going to go to a free, open sourced chess website and ask to take the sounds down? Probably not.

I'm actually not opposed, but if I were to do that I'd grab sounds from classic NES/SNES games, and give the theme a different name. Hrmm... Could be a thought anyway :)

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Evropi notifications@github.com wrote:

@Enigmahack https://github.com/Enigmahack Fair enough... I just couldn't help but notice that you straight-up copied the explosion sound from The Legend of Zelda and the victory sound from Final Fantasy. :) Nintendo has been known for strict copyright enforcement, but not on older games (hell, Zelda Classic http://www.zeldaclassic.com/ has been going strong for 10+ years). I wouldn't worry about it too much -- if you want to include an NES theme at all, I say make it as nostalgia-riddled as possible because no-one is going to stop you for legal reasons.

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[Enigmahack]

Okay, I might need someone to walk me through replacing or introducing new sound sets. I didn't want to break anything haha.

I've got the new normalized sound set for the NES Sounds and the piano theme, and then I'll start working on some new themes today at some point. I just wanted to figure out how I might add things myself without breaking anything now that I know what the sounds need to be called.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49099211/LiChess/NES-Theme-Normalized.zip

This is the normalized NES theme.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49099211/LiChess/Piano-Normalized.zip

This is the normalized Piano theme. I've added Atomic and Berserk in there as well now too.

[ornicar]

Can you use Git?

[Enigmahack]

I might be able to, but I don't actually know... On Jul 1, 2015 11:21 AM, "Thibault Duplessis" notifications@github.com wrote:

Can you use Git?

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[ornicar]

Learning Git is quite an investment. If you want to: http://git-scm.com/

For now I'll update the sounds myself from your zips.

[arex1337]

Sweet!

[arex1337]

Theme ideas: Futuristic, new age, zen Modern war, military Medieval battle, vikings, Game of Thrones

[Enigmahack]

@arex1337 Great ideas! I'll take a look and see what I can come up with for some of those.

For now, I do have a new theme: SFX (They're just sound effects from things I've found lying around the studio, and some SFX libraries that are public domain)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49099211/LiChess/SFX-Theme.zip

[ornicar]

normalized piano & NES sounds are online.

[Enigmahack]

I just went through the GIT tutorial, and I was able to sync my local folders and such into the lila/public/sounds/ folder - Could someone double-check to make sure I did it right? If I did, then I'll be able to add new sounds generally whenever.

[ornicar]

https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

[ornicar]

OK hmm, you're not supposed to push directly in lila repo. You should fork and submit pull requests.

Also could you please follow the naming conventions? See https://github.com/ornicar/lila/tree/master/public/sound/piano

[Enigmahack]

Understood - I'm setting that up now, I didn't 100% understand what I was doing initially but I think I've got a handle on it now.

I'll follow the piano naming convention from now on too.

Thanks man!

[ornicar]

Excellent. I'm renaming your SFX sounds, almost done.

[ornicar]

Also there's a sound that's missing from all (non-standard) sets, a pretty important one: LowTime. It rings when the chess clock approaches zero, as a reminder for the player they have to play fast.

[Enigmahack]

Yeah, I just noticed that as I was reviewing the naming convention. I'll add those to both the NES, SFX and Piano themes in my fork and submit a push request.

(I think that's how it works right?)

[ornicar]

that's how we roll!

[Enigmahack]

I'll figure out this development stuff sooner or later haha. But yeah, it makes sense entirely. I'll see what I can do then and submit when I'm ready.

[ornicar]

ask me on gchat if you're stuck.

[ornicar]

I have a theme suggestion: wood.

[Unihedro]

I have a theme suggestion: war.

[Enigmahack]

I like it, just working out creatively what certain things would sounds like lol.

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:45 AM -0700, "Thibault Duplessis" notifications@github.com wrote:

I have a theme suggestion: wood.

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[Enigmahack]

Like this too, but I think we already have one planned called military or similar. Probably can combine them however.

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:53 AM -0700, "Unihedron" notifications@github.com wrote:

I have a theme suggestion: war.

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[ornicar]

By the way, the futuristic sound theme is online.

[ornicar]

looks like we're done here. Feel free to make new sounds if you feel like it, they'll be welcome.

[Enigmahack]

Hey - Thanks for the message.

Yeah, things have gotten super busy lately, I'll try and see what I can contribute now that I have a process but other priorities have come up.

Thanks dave

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Thibault Duplessis < notifications@github.com> wrote:

looks like we're done here. Feel free to make new sounds if you feel like it, they'll be welcome.

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[isaacl]

@Enigmahack Do you have uncompressed versions of your sounds that I could grab? We need to re-encode them for #3884