HOW TO: Fix K3b not playing notification sounds

[67GTA]

The K3b notification sound files in /usr/share/sounds are in .wav format. This doesn't jive with K3b for reasons unknown to me. The solution is to format them to .ogg like all the other sound files in that directory. The easiest way is to copy /usr/share/sounds/k3b_error1.wav, k3b_success1.wav, and k3b_wait_media1.wav to your desired location. Then choose your app of choice for converting. The /usr directory is owned by root, so you will need to have admin powers to copy them back. You can simply run

sudo dolphin

in a terminal. You can also use the command line by running something similar to

sudo mv /location_of_converted_files /usr/share/sounds

.Then go to K3b>Settings>Configure K3b>Notifications and select the new ogg file for each notification in place of the .wav files. Enjoy your K3b notifications! If modifying system files is not for you, I've added a link to the originals converted to ogg. Just copy them to /usr/share/sounds with one of the methods described above. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9661957/K3b_ogg.zip

[Rog131]

Re: HOW TO: Fix K3b not playing notification sounds

"Snowhog" wrote October 03, 2010, 03:55:54 pm > HOWTO Fix K3b notifications from playing 'short'