Make sure you have specified the full path of the player.
Make sure you have disabled arts.

And again, it works for notifications only.

On Monday 11 July 2005 19:04, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Alle 14:01, sabato 09 luglio 2005, Duncan ha scritto:
> > Run kcontrol and switch to Sound and Multimedia, System Notifications
> > (or run kcmshell kcmnotify, to get the specific applet directly),
> > click the Player Settings button, then the Use an external player
> > radiobutton in the resulting dialog. Enter or browse to the player
> > you want to use, hit apply, and test the results.  Note that you may
> > have to play around with command line options such as volume and the
> > like, for your selected player.
>
> I tried it but it doesn't work.
> I selected alsaplayer (like you) and I tested alsaplayer alone, but with
> KDE no chance...
> What did you do? Only selected the player? Can you help me?
> Thanks,
> Luigi

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