KDE Systems Notifications Player

[RealityMage]

Hello,

As of KDE 3.2, or perhaps before, I need an external player to play KDE system notifications. Aplay serves this purpose well - except that it can't play MP3s, and worse, plays a stream of gibberish when KDE tells it to play an MP3 file.

Basically, I want an "aplay" that can also play MP3s, and perhaps even OGGs. I want to retain the low-latency that aplay has. Alsaplayer is too slow and heavy to be used for this purpose.

I am using ALSA without Arts, by the way.