[Xastir] Playing sounds

[Earl Needham]

At 09:23 PM 7/10/2007, Lee Bengston wrote:
>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

         That worked, although I had to install mpg123 -- and having 
the .tar available was very convenient, too.  At least it was, once I 
figured out how to extract the files from it -- Kubuntu tried to tell 
me I don't own my own hard drive, hi hi!

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         Earl

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