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Alarm at end of countdown?

Asked by rdubas

Is there a way to add an alarm of some sort for when the countdown timer hits zero? Even a simple beep would be fine. This is a nice little program. I had been looking for a simple countdown timer and just installed uTimer.

Thanks,
Rob

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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#1

You can easily use another program to play a sound after utimer is finished:

Here are some examples:
utimer -c 5 && paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/drip.ogg
utimer -c 1 && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg

You can replace paplay with another command line audio player. paplay comes with Pulseaudio.

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rdubas (rob-robdubas) said : 		#2

Great, thank you for the quick answer. I have to figure out some things with paplay. I got it to play those Ubuntu system sounds files, but for some reason not other ogg files and not mp3's. Probably was just typing something wrong. Thanks again.

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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#3

paplay is a very basic player, I usually use Audiopreview (from http://audiopreview.codealpha.net ) which is another project of mine. You'll need the gstreamer bad plugins or gstreamer ffmpeg.

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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#4

For example: audiopreview -e somefile.mp3

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rdubas (rob-robdubas) said : 		#5

Perfect! Just installed audiopreview and it works great with utimer. I already had the bad plugins. Your audiopreview looks like a nice little music player to also use on it's own outside of utimer. Thanks for pointing it out.