Use-sound Package: Sound Effects in React Applications

• In the early days of the web, some pages played background MIDI music.
• Pop-up scammers use sounds to achieve their bad goals. They, with the help of sounds, seek to attract the attention of users and make fraud more believable.
• The sound is present in automatically starting videos (well, this is absolutely a nightmare).

Overview

import useSound from 'use-sound';
import boopSfx from '../../sounds/boop.mp3';
const BoopButton = () => {
  const [play] = useSound(boopSfx);
  return <button onClick={play}>Boop!</button>;
};

• Prematurely stop playback, as well as pause and resume playback.
• Downloading something like a sound “sprite sheet” and dividing it into separate sounds.
• Setting the playback speed with the ability to speed up and slow down the playback of sounds.
• Lots of event listeners.
• Many advanced features available thanks to Howler.

Use-sound basics

▍Installation

#  yarn
yarn add use-sound
#  NPM
npm install use-sound

▍ Import

import useSound from 'use-sound';

import boopSfx from '../../sounds/boop.mp3';

Search and prepare sounds

▍Preparation of sounds

• Sounds, like strings, can be framed by empty space. Silence fragments are usually cut out, as a result, the corresponding sound effect is reproduced immediately after the occurrence of the voiced event.
• When preparing sounds, you may need to adjust their volume, making it so that all sounds used in one project have the same volume.
• Freesound.org has sounds stored in various audio formats. You may very well need to convert the sounds you like to MP3.

Sound and Availability

Recipes

▍ Check box

function Demo() {
  const [isChecked, setIsChecked] = React.useState(
    false
  );

  const [playActive] = useSound(
    '/sounds/pop-down.mp3',
    { volume: 0.25 }
  );
  const [playOn] = useSound(
    '/sounds/pop-up-on.mp3',
    { volume: 0.25 }
  );
  const [playOff] = useSound(
    '/sounds/pop-up-off.mp3',
    { volume: 0.25 }
  );

  return (
    <Checkbox
      name="demo-checkbox"
      checked={isChecked}
      size={24}
      label="I agree to self-isolate"
      onChange={() => setIsChecked(!isChecked)}
      onMouseDown={playActive}
      onMouseUp={() => {
        isChecked ? playOff() : playOn();
      }}
    />
  );
}

▍ Early interruption of sound reproduction

function Demo() {
  // ,  ,  'rising-pops' :
  // - fanfare
  // - dun-dun-dun
  // - guitar-loop
  const soundUrl = '/sounds/rising-pops.mp3';

  const [play, { stop }] = useSound(
    soundUrl,
    { volume: 0.5 }
  );

  const [isHovering, setIsHovering] = React.useState(
    false
  );

  return (
    <Button
      onMouseEnter={() => {
        setIsHovering(true);
        play();
      }}
      onMouseLeave={() => {
        setIsHovering(false);
        stop();
      }}
    >
      <ButtonContents isHovering={isHovering}>
        Hover over me!
      </ButtonContents>
    </Button>
  );
}

▍Increasing pitch

function Demo() {
  const soundUrl = '/sounds/glug-a.mp3';

  const [playbackRate, setPlaybackRate] = React.useState(0.75);

  const [play] = useSound(soundUrl, {
    playbackRate,
    volume: 0.5,
  });

  const handleClick = () => {
    setPlaybackRate(playbackRate + 0.1);
    play();
  };

  return (
    <Button onClick={handleClick}>
      <span role="img" aria-label="Heart">
      </span>
    </Button>
  );
}

▍ Button to start and pause playback

function Demo() {
  const soundUrl = '/sounds/guitar-loop.mp3';

  const [play, { stop, isPlaying }] = useSound(soundUrl);

  return (
    <PlayButton
      active={isPlaying}
      size={60}
      iconColor="var(--color-background)"
      idleBackgroundColor="var(--color-text)"
      activeBackgroundColor="var(--color-primary)"
      play={play}
      stop={stop}
    />
  );
}

▍Sound “sprite lists”

function Demo() {
  const soundUrl = '/sounds/909-drums.mp3';

  const [play] = useSound(soundUrl, {
    sprite: {
      kick: [0, 350],
      hihat: [374, 160],
      snare: [666, 290],
      cowbell: [968, 200],
    }
  });

  //  ,   'keydown',
  //    .
  useKeyboardBindings({
    1: () => play({ id: 'kick' }),
    2: () => play({ id: 'hihat' }),
    3: () => play({ id: 'snare' }),
    4: () => play({ id: 'cowbell' }),
  })

  return (
    <>
      <Button
        aria-label="kick"
        onMouseDown={() => play({ id: 'kick' })}
      >
        1
      </Button>
      <Button
        aria-label="hihat"
        onMouseDown={() => play({ id: 'hihat' })}
      >
        2
      </Button>
      <Button
        aria-label="snare"
        onMouseDown={() => play({ id: 'snare' })}
      >
        3
      </Button>
      <Button
        aria-label="cowbell"
        onMouseDown={() => play({ id: 'cowbell' })}
      >
        4
      </Button>
    </>
  );
}

Summary