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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To:        kyanh <xkyanh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound configuration for pidgin
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904101903520.1532@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20090410205135.2a813f34@icy.local>
References:  <20090410205135.2a813f34@icy.local>

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use
> 	mplayer %s
> to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost 100:100). Is there anyway to have a bigger sound in Pidgin?
>
> Thank you!

I would recommend installing the audio/normalize port, and using 
that to increase the volume of the sound files. If you don't want to alter 
the audio files, try using this as your sound command:

mplayer -af volume=20 %s



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