rosierd
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« on: August 27, 2007, 11:27:38 pm » |
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Hi I was just wondering if you can direct me to getting alarms to work
I wanted it so that everytime a user came online it played an alarm a sound clip and so everything was fine and when someone came online it came up with a notification and a button to stop alarm.. but I didn't hear anything...
I then assumed maybe it was a format issue, and noticed the default file is a .wav file and well that didn't work I tried mp3, ogg etc. none of those work either so I was wondering what is the problem?
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rosierd
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2007, 06:04:00 pm » |
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Hmm surprised no-one can help... :?
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JeeBee
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2007, 09:48:53 am » |
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Well, you don't give us that much information, so you make it quite difficult.
Are you running Windows? Linux?
Which amsn version are you using?
Is your sound problem specific to alarms, or does sound not work anywhere in amsn?
Do you see any errors in the status log (press ctrl-s to see this), right after you expected to hear a sound?
Entering a .wav file should be ok. But test the .wav file, it might be corrupt. If sound works
in the rest of amsn, then use a .wav file here that is also used in another place where it works.
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rosierd
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2007, 12:11:14 pm » |
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Hi, I am sorry for not giving you more information I thought maybe it was a widespread thing after asking a few people it is the same but after a good session looking through the preferences menu, I found my solution so here it is for anyone else regarding alarms
Solution
1) Click Account on the contact list window and then preferences
2) Click Others (the tab)
3) Where it says Sound Server: by default it uses another program.. IMHO (In my honest opinion) Strange :?
4) Choose use the snack library (TCL internal)
et voila, the problem is solved
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2007, 06:47:50 pm » |
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the 'other program' is there because the snack library is not installed by default on all systems, usually, it's not actually. Also, note that it might not work well if you have esd or arts sound daemons...
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Galak Fyarr
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2009, 10:58:06 am » |
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Hi,
I'm experiencing the same problem as mentionned.
I have all sounds working perfectly fine (contact going offline, online, new message and new e-mail)
but here's what's not working:
Sometimes I put myself on "offline" or "away" and just leave my computer with sound maxed out to hear whether someone comes online. Now mostly I want to check if it's my girlfriend coming online, so each time someone comes online I have to run to the computer and check (and often be disappointed lol)
So I decided to configure the alarm for her, which I chose as being the following:
ON -- Active the alarm for this user
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ON -- Activate alarm when this user comes online
OFF - Alarm when user send message
OFF - Alarm when user changes state
OFF - Alarm when user goes offline/invisible
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Sound file : /User/MyName/folder/soundfile.mp3
ON -- Sound Alarm
OFF - Loop Sound
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Command : Empty box
OFF - Execute command
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Picture file : /user/MyName/Library/Application Support/amsn/skins/dark matter/pixmaps/alarm.png
OFF - Picture Alarm
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Message : empty box
OFF - Send Message
I did check with one of my friends this would work (I configurated the SAME on his account and he went offline-online)
But all that happened was that I got the DEFAULT online notification (just like usual) so I still wouldn't know whether it was him or someone else if I wasn't behind the screen... (and I also got a pop-up telling me "Contact got online"
my system :
Mac OS 10.5.6
aMSN 0.97.2
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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2009, 08:27:39 pm » |
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Hi,
Your problem is very simple... you chose an mp3 file to play.. it has to be a wav file.. OR any file that can be played by your sound command.. so if you want to put an mp3 in there, you should use 'mpg123' or 'mpg321' or whatever player you want to use...
in theory, libsnack should also be able to play mp3 files, but because of some copyright/patent issues, the mp3 module of libsnack is not being shipped with amsn.
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Galak Fyarr
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2009, 06:22:27 pm » |
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Hi,
I've converted the file to .wav, but still there's no sound playing. I do ge the pop-up that tells me smt happens, but not the sound... would this be a Mac only problem?
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2009, 08:38:04 pm » |
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I don't know if it's a mac problem, haven't tried... make sure your file is a .wav in uncompressed PCM format, and that you have the right path in the alarm settings... I'll ask the mac maintainer to confirm whether or not the alarm system is broken on mac.
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tomhennigan
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2009, 09:02:33 pm » |
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Heya, Just tested this, and it seems to work just fine on mac with wav and mp3. Make sure that "sound alarm" is ticked, and that the file exists. But it doesn't appear to be an issue affecting the OS X platform.
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Galak Fyarr
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2009, 09:26:22 pm » |
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The file and path are correct... Not sure how to do teh WAV in uncompressed PCM format, I used a free app called Switch to convert the mp3 i wanted to use into a wav file, no idea if it's uncompressed PCM format...
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kakaroto
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2009, 03:53:15 am » |
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well, tom says it works with mp3 too, so I'm guessing there might be a problem with configs.. can you (tomhennigan and Galak Fyarr) report which settings you are using? which version of aMSN, which sound setting (preferences->others)... I'm guessing you should both be using the snack library for audio playback...
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Galak Fyarr
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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2009, 09:37:25 am » |
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I'm using aMSN 0.97.2 (for mac, on Mac OS 10.5.6)
I do not find anything about snack library in the "others" tab.
I do find "audio and video settings", which starts some kind of wizard or assistant. I skip the video settings, right to the audio settings where it asks to select the audio-output device (there's only "default" available) and then the mixer (where again there's only "default" available)
there's also a test file to play, I assume the fact that the volume for that is turned back to 0 every time I start the assistant has no effect on the sound of aMSN? (well as I said, the default sounds (new message, contact online etc. work, so guess not)
after that it asks me for my input device, and try to record it. it works fine, my microphone is the built-in one, and it works. (options to select is again "Default" and nothing else, then I get some resuming page, where it tells me I "changed" the settings to audio-output being "default" and audio-input being "default".
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