bonk

Tiny cross-platform notification-sound executable built with .NET 10 Native AOT.

Install

Release assets are unpacked, self-contained executables.

Linux, bash:

repo=flcl42/bonk; arch="$(uname -m)"; asset=bonk-linux-x64; case "$arch" in aarch64|arm64) asset=bonk-linux-arm64;; esac; curl -fsSL "https://github.com/$repo/releases/latest/download/$asset" -o ./bonk; chmod +x ./bonk

macOS, zsh:

repo=flcl42/bonk; arch="$(uname -m)"; asset=bonk-macos-arm64; [ "$arch" = "x86_64" ] && asset=bonk-macos-x64; curl -fsSL "https://github.com/$repo/releases/latest/download/$asset" -o ./bonk; chmod +x ./bonk

Windows, PowerShell:

$repo='flcl42/bonk'; Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/$repo/releases/latest/download/bonk-windows-x64.exe" -OutFile ".\bonk.exe"

Usage

bonk
bonk 0
bonk 1
bonk 30

bonk with no arguments plays melody 0, the original current sound. Pass a number from 0 through 30 to choose a different embedded melody.

If an invalid index is passed, details are written to bonk-error.txt in the system temp directory.

Playback uses Windows MCI on Windows, afplay on macOS, and the first available Linux player from ffplay, mpg123, mpv, or cvlc.

Build

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 -o .

Local publish output is .\bonk.exe.

Release

Tagged commits build and publish these raw executable assets:

• bonk-linux-x64
• bonk-linux-arm64
• bonk-macos-x64
• bonk-macos-arm64
• bonk-windows-x64.exe
• bonk-windows-arm64.exe

Push a tag such as v1.2.0 or release/1.2.0 to create a GitHub release.

Melodies

The embedded MP3s are the 31 items from Universfield's Pixabay Notifications collection:

https://pixabay.com/collections/notifications-33322938/

Resources/melodies.json records the index, title, source page, CDN source, byte size, and duration for each embedded MP3. The sounds are published by Universfield on Pixabay under the Pixabay Content License:

https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/

License

Code is MIT. Embedded MP3 assets are from Pixabay and remain under the Pixabay Content License.