foxtrot
foxtrot started as a personal alternative to other Discord applications that utilize a bot user to play audio in the voice channels. It was originally called "glowing memory", but got rebranded twice in 2022-2023. The bot was made to be free for everyone, hence it's open source, too.
foxtrot is written in TypeScript and C++.
- Website: https://foxtrot.litterbin.dev/
- Source code: https://github.com/LitterbinCollective/foxtrot.ts
Complexity
Reasons why this project is complex.
Lack of a voice helper
The library that I've used, Detritus.js, is pretty barebones when it comes specifically to voice. The only thing that it can do is encode PCM samples to Opus (if specified), create packets out of them and send them through the Discord voice server connection. However, its lack of helpers that can play the audio for you (see discord.js/voice) actually helped the development of this bot. Altering of the audio in real time was one of the things that I wanted to implement.
Audio mixer
Audio mixer is used for mixing short audio clips and either silence or the currently playing audio. 2 or more versions were made, and the current one is written in C++, because it's much faster in comparison to a mixer made in JavaScript.
Branding
I started off having a robot as the face of the project ("glowing memory" at that time). I then rebranded it to "catvox" in 2022, but, because of personal favoring of the new name, I rebranded it again in the same year to "foxtrot" and started using a fox as the icon.
