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From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:46:08 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702281846.08214.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702272006.51123.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 06:54, Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:14, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> > > El Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:53:54 +0100
> > >
> > > Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> escribió:
> > > > Mick writes:
> > > > > How am I supposed to specify sox?  /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any
> > > > > sound.
> > > >
> > > > Have a look at this "Do I really need aRts?" thread, in the middle it
> > > > says:
> > > >
> > > >  "now, copy this script into /usr/bin/Ksplay:
> > > >
> > > >    #! /bin/sh
> > > >    sox "$@" -v 1.0 -q -t alsa default &
> > > >
> > > >   emerge sox to get an external sound player for
> > > >   kdm events. Go into the control center, click
> > > >   system notifications and click "player settings"
> > > >   near the bottom. Click "use external player"
> > > >   and then type /usr/bin/Ksplay.
> > > >  "
> > > >
> > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-526080-highlight-arts.html
> > > >
> > > > 	Alex
> > >
> > > Alternatively you can just use the script "/usr/bin/play", included in
> > > the sox package.
> >
> > Cool! I seem to have missed this in man sox.  It plays system sounds now
> > nicely.
>
> Blast! I spoke too soon.  It /usr/bin/play plays system sounds fine, by
> alsa will not mix them if e.g. amarok is playing in the background.  It's
> either one or the other.  Do I need to rebuild kdelibs without arts for it
> to work? This should really be simpler.

i recently went through this after something broke in arts. I turned off the 
KDE sound system and in the System Notifications dialog, 
specified "playsound" as the external player (found in sdl-sound package). 
You can also use "mplayer" but the module is enormous. Everything works 
really well now, with no drop-outs during the KDE Start/Stop fan-fares. :)

HTH
-Robin.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-28 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25 18:05 [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days? Mick
2007-02-26 19:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-26 22:02   ` b.n.
2007-02-26 21:32     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-26 21:34     ` Mick
2007-02-26 22:36       ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-26 22:41         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-02-26 23:24         ` Mick
2007-02-26 23:53           ` Alex Schuster
2007-02-27  0:14             ` Jesús Guerrero
2007-02-27  6:54               ` Mick
2007-02-27 20:06                 ` Mick
2007-02-27 22:41                   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-27 22:59                     ` Mick
2007-02-28 11:46                   ` Robin Atwood [this message]
2007-03-06 10:13       ` Neil Bothwick
2007-03-06 18:47         ` Mick

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