[Xastir] Festival issue Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit options greyed out

[Steve Rogers]

Another Pearl of Knowledge Lee! Have a old .wav files and converted to mp3 and it works!
Thanks for the great audio player, using Ubuntu 10.4. Steve kd5mkv

> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:49:24 -0500
> From: lee.bengston at gmail.com
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Festival issue Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit options greyed out
> 
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Chris <kc2rgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I did build it, thanks to whomever did that build script and
> > instructions on the wiki, nice job there.
> >
> > The mystery is solved, now it works...*however*
> >
> > Festival can't keep up with the onslaught of 'new objects' and it gets
> > all jammed up and trips into the ==Pause== mode and hangs up.  Not
> > Xastir's fault there for sure, likely all the device control delays
> > due to the layers of audio system with pulseaudio running.
> 
> The fact that you got back so fast saying that you built it really
> points out what a time saver the build script is.  I did the most
> recent couple of tweaks to the script, but another contributor did the
> heavy lifting on that one.
> 
> It's also possible to get sound by playing the sound files.  In the
> past I have installed the sox package from the repo, which uses the
> "play" command that is already entered into the "Audio Play Command"
> field under File - Configure - Audio Alarms in Xastir.  I hadn't tried
> that in a long time, though, and when I tried it just now, it would
> not work.  The sox program seems to be trying to play the file, but it
> freezes.
> 
> So I fell back to something I did even longer ago when I couldn't find
> a command line program right away to play wav files, but I did find
> one that played mp3's.  I still have the Xastir wav files converted to
> mp3 format posted at www.175moonlight.com/xastir/mp3/xastirmp3.tar.
> First install mpg321 via apt-get or synaptic.  Download and copy the
> MP3's into /usr/local/share/xastir/sounds.  Then under
> File-configure-audio alarms change the 'Audo Play Command' field to
> mpg321, and change the sound file extensions from .wav to .mp3.  Then
> Xastir should play the files.  It won't sound as nice as Festival, but
> it should be lighter weight and possibly keep up with the data stream.
>  If you really get ambitious you can record your own mp3's  :-)
> 
> If you prefer to stick with the original wav files and use a command
> line app to play those, the wav's are available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/files/xastir-miscellaneous/General/.
>  Just make sure the command for playing is entered in the applicable
> field in the audio alarms area.
> 
> Regards,
> Lee - K5DAT
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