Earl, On the sounds, below is what worked for me and I understand worked or you as well. One update is that mpg123 is not installed by default in Ubuntu/Kubuntu, but Adept should find it. Alternatively, you can try installing esound-clients, then use esdplay to play the existing wav files instead of using the MP3 versions. The MP3 files are still available at the link below.
Regards, Lee-K5DAT Murphy, TX ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lee Bengston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 10, 2007 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Playing sounds To: [email protected] > On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:27 am, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
> > > > Uh -- somebody send me a clue how to get sounds to play in Xastir. I'm > > trying to get new station announcement, etc., to play, and I don't know > > th esyntax. Apparently play with nothing else doesn't do it!
Here's what worked for me: Kubuntu already has a command line mp3 player installed (mpg123). In Xastir, under FILE-CONFIGURE-AUDIO ALARMS, change the audio play command to mpg123 and change each file name ending in .wav to end in .mp3 (for example, newstation.mp3). Then download the Xastir sound files and convert them to MP3's. Put the MP3 files in /user/local/share/xastir/sounds To speed up the last part, I put the mp3 versions of the sound files at the following link: http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/mp3/xastirmp3.tar If you want the sounds to play, remember to turn on the newstation alarm and any others that you want under FILE-CONFIGURE-AUDIO ALARMS If you use konqueror to browse directories and copy files, you will probably have to enter sudo konqueror at a command prompt in order use it to copy the mp3 files into the /user/local/share/xastir/sounds directory due to the permissions settings. Regards, Lee-K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
