Well, yes and no.
Because of yet again another reduction in classes generated by now the public school retirement system ... this just gets worse and worse, all of the part time retired teachers are now down to half of our previous classes.
That has forced a very large change in lifestyle for the ol' woodsmoker and it has mainly created a situation where I am in an apartment ALONE five days a week except for interval waking, swimming and tghe occasional foray out into the wilds of tghe dating scene.
i have always just kept "music going" OR "news" especially the last few years on the large screen Kparadigm shift machine but that has kind of lost it's luster and it occured to me to... "put a grandfather clock" on the machine...
Well grandfather clock the app does not work, it has an error message about not being able to "fill line 120", but it is an old app and that kind of thing is to be expected running Neon.
The obvious answer is to download a "grandfather" mp3 from YouTube and that works just fine there are many versions, some of which sound great and others not so much.
But it would be very nice, especially in the spirit of the Christmas season to have " a grandfather clock chime" also that would at least reasonably hit the correct hour.
And there are many youtube chime vids but they are always associated with midnight or whateve.
It isn't that "the BONG BONG of toling the hours is needed" the "leadup chime before the BONG BONG would work just fine and I can easily extract that part of a video as an mp3 but...the problem that has arisen is this;
I, personally, cannot find a widget or an app that will actually "play a sound file hourly"... really...I have tried every widget clock and clock app for KDE and none of them will play a sound file hourly. I even tried Cairo-Clock and "clocky" for Conky...;.;
I think that maybe that is why the fellow actually tried to make the grandfather clock ...lol...
The best option seems to be cron or mcron, but i can't seem to figure out how to actually get cron to play a sound file ...I KNOW there is a man page that has -chime as an extension to do it but I can't seem to get the silly thing to do it.
So...here is a two part question.
A) Does anyone know of an obscure clock that they kNOW will play a sound file "on the hour".
B) Does anyone know of any "GUI" or "fix" or "alternate" to cron that can be configured to play a sound file?
The idea being that I just let part of the youtube video loop, i can do that to provide "tick tock" and the "clock" or the "cron type thing" to play the chimes hourly. AGAIN I do not need the thing to play "bong bong bong" for three o'clock all that is needed is that I set it to hourly play a chime file.
Any help would be most appreciated!
woodsmoke
Because of yet again another reduction in classes generated by now the public school retirement system ... this just gets worse and worse, all of the part time retired teachers are now down to half of our previous classes.
That has forced a very large change in lifestyle for the ol' woodsmoker and it has mainly created a situation where I am in an apartment ALONE five days a week except for interval waking, swimming and tghe occasional foray out into the wilds of tghe dating scene.
i have always just kept "music going" OR "news" especially the last few years on the large screen Kparadigm shift machine but that has kind of lost it's luster and it occured to me to... "put a grandfather clock" on the machine...
Well grandfather clock the app does not work, it has an error message about not being able to "fill line 120", but it is an old app and that kind of thing is to be expected running Neon.
The obvious answer is to download a "grandfather" mp3 from YouTube and that works just fine there are many versions, some of which sound great and others not so much.
But it would be very nice, especially in the spirit of the Christmas season to have " a grandfather clock chime" also that would at least reasonably hit the correct hour.
And there are many youtube chime vids but they are always associated with midnight or whateve.
It isn't that "the BONG BONG of toling the hours is needed" the "leadup chime before the BONG BONG would work just fine and I can easily extract that part of a video as an mp3 but...the problem that has arisen is this;
I, personally, cannot find a widget or an app that will actually "play a sound file hourly"... really...I have tried every widget clock and clock app for KDE and none of them will play a sound file hourly. I even tried Cairo-Clock and "clocky" for Conky...;.;
I think that maybe that is why the fellow actually tried to make the grandfather clock ...lol...
The best option seems to be cron or mcron, but i can't seem to figure out how to actually get cron to play a sound file ...I KNOW there is a man page that has -chime as an extension to do it but I can't seem to get the silly thing to do it.
So...here is a two part question.
A) Does anyone know of an obscure clock that they kNOW will play a sound file "on the hour".
B) Does anyone know of any "GUI" or "fix" or "alternate" to cron that can be configured to play a sound file?
The idea being that I just let part of the youtube video loop, i can do that to provide "tick tock" and the "clock" or the "cron type thing" to play the chimes hourly. AGAIN I do not need the thing to play "bong bong bong" for three o'clock all that is needed is that I set it to hourly play a chime file.
Any help would be most appreciated!
woodsmoke
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