Soundpad

Soundpad

Show the sound you are playing through Soundpad.

The Soundpad integration displays the name of the sound currently playing in Soundpad, so the room can see what you just played instead of only hearing it.

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What do I need?

1. Soundpad, installed and running.
2. The 🔊 Soundpad Bridge permission, which MagicChatbox asks for when you enable the integration.

Important

This integration needs the 🔊 Soundpad Bridge permission. Decline it and the integration switches itself back off. You can grant it later under Options → Privacy.

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There is nothing to configure

• Soundpad has no Options section, and that is deliberate — the bridge permission is its only setting. Everything else is automatic:

  1. Your Soundpad installation is found on its own. There is no path to enter.
  2. The 🎶 icon in front of the sound name is fixed.
  3. The output is the sound title in quotes, with the icon:

🎶 'airhorn.mp3'

• The Integrations tile gives you the on/off switch, the DESKTOP and VR chips, and playback buttons — Previous, Next, Random, Play, Pause and Stop — so you can drive Soundpad without leaving MagicChatbox.

Note

If you are looking for a "Soundpad location" or "Prefix icon" setting because you read about them somewhere, they do not exist. The tile's CUSTOMIZE door says so rather than sending you to an empty page.

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How it works

• MagicChatbox talks to Soundpad over its remote control pipe — the interface Soundpad provides for exactly this purpose. It asks Soundpad directly for its playback state and the title of the current sound.

• Soundpad reports one of four states: PLAYING, PAUSED, SEEKING or STOPPED. Output appears while a sound is actually playing.

• If the pipe cannot be reached, MagicChatbox falls back to reading Soundpad's window title. That fallback cannot see anything while Soundpad is minimised to the tray, so you may get:

😞 Unable to read Soundpad — remote control unavailable and its window is minimized to the tray. Updating Soundpad usually fixes this.

Tip

That message means the pipe is unavailable, and an out-of-date Soundpad is the usual reason. Update Soundpad, or bring its window out of the tray as a temporary workaround.

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Nothing is showing

• Work through these in order.

  1. Is Soundpad running? The integration has nothing to read otherwise, and says 😞 Soundpad is not running.
  2. Is a sound actually playing? Nothing is printed when playback is stopped.
  3. Was the permission granted? Check Options → Privacy for the 🔊 Soundpad Bridge entry.
  4. Did it switch itself off? After five failures in a row the integration disables itself with a notice: Soundpad integration disabled after repeated errors — re-enable it to retry. Switch it back on once Soundpad is healthy.

Note

Revoking the Soundpad Bridge permission while it is running stops it immediately, with a notice saying so.

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How do I get help?

• You can find help in our Discord Server by creating a ticket.

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