Play from soundboard

Presents a menu of sounds (each with corresponding text-encoded audio), decodes your choice, and plays the sound at 35%.

Actions Used

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Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
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Play Sound
Plays the audio file passed as input, or a default notification sound if no audio file was passed.
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Set Volume
Sets the system volume. If you set the volume using a variable, use a number between 0 and 1 (for example, pass 0.5 for half volume).
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Base64 Encode
Encodes or decodes text or files using Base64 encoding.
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Get Contents of Folder
This action gets the files inside of the specified folder. Recursive If this option is enabled, this action will get all the files inside of a folder, including its subfolders.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Play%20from%20soundboard
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Play%20from%20soundboard
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Play from soundboard” end tell

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