About Beepody
Beepody is a non-profit beeping organization.
Mission Statement
To beep. There is no question.
Beep Formats
GRUB Init Tune
The GRUB format can be used for the GRUB_INIT_TUNE setting to play the beep sequence every time you boot your computer.
GRUB_INIT_TUNE uses this format:
play tempo freq duration [freq duration freq duration ...]
- tempo
- The base time for all note durations in beats per minute.
- freq
- The frequency of the note in hertz. 262 is middle C. 0 means silence.
- duration
- The duration of the note in bars. The length of the note in seconds is (60 ÷ tempo × duration).
- [freq duration freq duration...]
- Subsequent notes.
CLI Beep Sequence
The beep format can be passed to the beep command to beep in scripts on the Linux command line.
beep uses this format:
beep -f freq -l duration -r repeats -d delay [-n -f freq -l duration ...]
- -f N
- The frequency of the note in hertz. 0 < N > 20000.
- -l N
- The duration of the note in milliseconds.
- -r N
- The number of repetitions, defaulting to one.
- -d N
- The delay between repetitions in milliseconds.
- -n
- Start a new beep.