[Xastir] Playing Sounds

[Lee Bengston]

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 <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Playing sounds
To: xastir at xastir.org

    > 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