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Play Sound When Task Completes (Render, Bake, Track, etc.)

Implement an optional notification sound in Blender that plays when the following tasks finish:

  • Final Render (Image or Animation)
  • Baking (e.g., physics, textures, lightmaps)
  • Motion Tracking Solve
  • Compositing operations (optional)
  • Export/Import operations (optional)

Use Case:

  • Alerts the user that Blender has finished a long task, especially useful when Blender is minimized or running in the background.
  • Reduces the need for users to check Blender frequently while multitasking.

Thank you!

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danieltoma
9 May 2025

5 Comments

nickberckley

There is extension for that you can get from preferences

extensions.blender.org/add-ons/audio-notifier/

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Lauloque

Thanks for the exposition :)

I made a ticket on my repo to track notification recommendations and added the ones from this post. You can follow up there:
[Design Document] Wishlist of notifications · Issue #8 · L0Lock/AudioNotifier

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we should be able to customize the sound as well

Lauloque

Which "compositing operations" do you think of exactly?

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It would be great if we could access Windows and Mac notifications, and even have the capability to send notifications to mobile devices when rendering tasks are completed on the computer.