How can I play a sound when my meteor server restarts? -

i have 1 monitor , find hard keeping track of windows, , on top of that, have slow pc. @ text editor, not seeing if changes loaded meteor.js. there anyway play sound when meteor server restarts because of changes?

bonus points: different sound when there's error preventing startup.

edit: i'm using windows 7, i'd want know how on mac , linux.

you can use node this:

meteor add meteorhacks:npm

then run project meteor create packages.json file in root directory

add below package.json looks this:

{     "play": "0.5.0" } 

create file on desktop, sound, e.g sound.wav

and play on startup: (server side code):

meteor.startup(function() {      var play = meteor.npmrequire('play').play();      // play callback     play.sound('~/desktop/sound.wav', function() { });       //if want know when player has defintely started playing    play.on('play', function (valid) {      console.log('i started playing!');    });    //if want know if can't play reason   play.on('error', function () {      console.log('i can't play!');   }); }); 

it should work on mac , windows too, make sure use correct path, may better off absolute path file c:\users....wav

you need 1 of following cli players play sound:

• afplay
• mplayer (easiest installed on os x brew install mplayer, on windows may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/docs/html/en/windows.html)
• mpg123
• mpg321
• play

you can install any, long platform can run 1 should ok.. if download raw binary of them sure add directory executables in path environment variable.