Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:34:51 +0700, kyanh wrote: > I just use the default setting from Pidgin. I don't know what is > the kind of sound though I guess that's *.wav. For WAV files, the play command from the port audio/sox is fine. I think it's a bit "heavy" to employ mplayer for this simple job.

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:56:17 +0700, kyanh wrote: >> Second, the sound files you are using might simply be a bit low on >> the volume side. You may want to load them into something like >> audacity to increase their loudness. > > The problem is that I use Pidgin's default sound files. I cannot > l

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:04 -0600 Geoff Fritz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring > > Pidgin, I use > > mplayer %s > > to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sou

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:35:04 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:51:35 +0700, kyanh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring > > Pidgin, I use mplayer %s > > to make Pidgin play stuff. > > First, maybe mplayer is a bit "heavy s

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread kyanh
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0500 (CDT) Wes Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring > > Pidgin, I use mplayer %s > > to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as > > pidgin's vol

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Wes Morgan
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost 100:100). Is there anyway to h

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I > use > mplayer %s > to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's > volume is small (while the system mixer is almost

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:51:35 +0700, kyanh wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use > mplayer %s > to make Pidgin play stuff. First, maybe mplayer is a bit "heavy stuff" for notification sounds. What are these files? If they are