aRTs/ALSA Help?

linkinpark342 · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 29

Okay now KDE really confused me...
So, after upgrading to 3.5.1, I'm trying to get my notifications to work (the reason i upgraded)
After about an hour of tinkering, i was able to get the "Test Sound" button to work under Sound System and I'm greeted with that trippy music when i do. On the hardware tab i have it set to ALSA and the only check box is Full duplex and quality is set to 16 bit. I go over the System Notifications and pick the first one that comes up, and press the play button and.... nothing. (bah) So i figure the file type might not be playable, i go over the .../sounds and type artsplay KDE_Glass_Break.ogg and it plays surprisingly well. So I'm stumped, the settings in System Notification are set to use the KDE Sound System properties and it can play the file... it just doesn't want to... Any advice? (please don't say something similar to "screw arts and the notifications alltogether..." that's not really helping me...)

Specs:
Gentoo-amd64-2.6.15-r1
KDE 3.5.1
Creative Audigy2 Value

[edit: forgot specs. P.S. XMMS works too...]

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Well. If you're sure you want to stick with Arts, you should peek at ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc, should have these lines:

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

However, you can stop arts definitely and use external player (most used is /usr/bin/play got from
sox package compiled with alsa and ogg use flags)
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linkinpark342 · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 29

I added somethign to that knotifyrc, one of the lines that you posted was missing so i hope that'll solve it. I'd actually love to cut aRTs out of the equation but that one doesn't work either. the external player has yet to work for me when i used mplayer as the external. as soon as i fix my biuld env (coreutil 5.94 screwed me over) i'm goign to try that sox player you said. I'll get back here ASAP

linkinpark342 · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 29

sox player doesn't work... going to restart with knotify again maybe :/
[edit: that didn't work either... bah! is there any bug someone know of where sox wouldn't work for some reason? it works fine from console, even playing ogg's but it just doesn't want to work with the notifications]

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

knotify accepts just /usr/bin/play , it will not works if you instert "/usr/bin/play -options" in the field.
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Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Huff, I found a way to use system notification without arts and have no any kind of regret,
normal volume and multiple sounds at once:

I created the file /usr/local/bin/Ksplay: