What is beamngsoundfix?

BeamngSoundFix is a shell script for people who play BeamNG.drive, a car simulation game, on native Linux and use community made car mods. Its job is to fix a very specific and common problem: modded cars that have no sound because their audio files were made with old Windows style flags that Linux cannot read. The script works by going through a mods folder, decompressing each mod archive, finding its wav sound files, re-encoding them so they no longer carry the incompatible flags, and then zipping the mod back up so it works normally again in the game. In short, it strips out the part of the audio files that Linux does not understand, without changing how the mod actually sounds. Running the script asks for root privileges. The README explains that you can run it without them, but doing so is much slower because the script is not able to use RAM backed temporary storage, which speeds up the decompress and rezip steps. To use the script you first need a handful of command line tools installed: ffmpeg for the audio conversion, p7zip and unrar for handling archive formats, zip for repacking mods, and git for downloading the script itself. The README gives install commands for Arch Linux, Ubuntu and Debian based systems, and Fedora. After installing dependencies you clone the repository, make the script executable, and run it, then point it at your BeamNG mods folder, which by default sits inside your Steam install directory under your home folder. The project is released under the MIT license and currently has no stars. The author lists two things they plan to add in the future: more flexible configuration options, and fixes for other common causes of missing mod sound, such as file paths that mix upper and lower case letters or use the wrong kind of slash.