I noticed that Evolution was "announcing" the attachment as a mime-type "audio/wav", but the .wav entry in gnome-file-types-properties was a mime-type "audio/x-wav". For fun, I created a new file type (in gnome-file-types-properties), but specified the mime-type as "audio/wav" as it was shown in Evolution. Added realplay as my custom application, restarted Evo, and Bingo. It's now in my drop-down list.
For whatever reason, realplayer is the only player I've found that can open our company's Cisco Voicemail wav files. Xmms and other players throw a fit with them. So the incentive to get this working was greater. If anyone knows how I ended up with this mime-type discrepancy, I'd be fascinated to hear. Thanks again. On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:44, Eric Lambart wrote: > Well, I just sent myself a wav file and was able to play it in XMMS from > Evolution, no problem. Here's (attached) a screenshot of my > gnome-properties. I made it a jpeg to conserve bandwidth so quality is > low but hopefully you can read it. Do your settings look like this? > > Where it says "Default action" I am able to select Custom and select > another program in "Program to run:". > > If you have the same settings as I and still have no luck, I don't know > what to tell you. I'd suggest trying something other than realplay to > play a wave file though. Why not XMMS or whatever sound player KDE > uses? > > Eric > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 08:04, Chris Boyce wrote: > > Thanks... but I tried that (both via the gnome control center and > > through gnome-file-types-properties). I added realplay to the list of > > programs associated with .wav files. In the email, Evolution gives me: > > > > > > > > > > audio/wav > > attachment > > (VoiceMessage.wav), "VoiceMessage" > > > > > > > > > > with the only option being to save the file. > > > > If I have the right gnome components installed (and I used red-carpet) > > then should this be happening? > > > > thanks... > > PS. This is the only way I can listen to my voicemails, hence the > > incentive to get .wav files working :) > > > > Chris > > > > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 18:39, Eric Lambart wrote: > > > It's not stored in gconf. Try running the gnome-file-types-properties > > > application. > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:56, Chris Boyce wrote: > > > > Hi all. I realize Evolution is a gnome application, but being that it > > > > appears to run so well under KDE as well, could someone tell me - if > > > > possible - which file(s) I need to tweak to allow .wav attachments to be > > > > opened by an external program? I've tried setting the association in > > > > gnome-control-center and I don't want to go nuts editing gconf files if > > > > it doesn't help. > > > > > > > > Pdf and image attachments have working associations, so is there a gnome > > > > file/rpm/gconf entry that I'm missing for audio/wav? > > > > > > > > Using 1.4.6 with connector, KDE 3.2.1, Suse 9. > > > > > > > > thanks _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
