no sound events played on default 8.04 install

[Amran]

Binary package hint: amsn

im using:
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

package info:
amsn:
  Installed: 0.97+final-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.97+final-0ubuntu4

by default sounds will not play for events such as new online contact, new message, alarm etc

as a resolution would it be appropriate to include the packages 'sox' and 'libsox-fmt-ao' as dependancies for amsn? this would enable sound playback (via the sox 'play' command as specified in the default preferences)

[Frédéric Petit (fraiddo)]

hello,

with snack library, the sounds works great. sudo APTITUDE install amsn ;)

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

aMSN should have either snack or aplay as default while play doesn't work out-of-the-box.
But with aplay this bug occurs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amsn/+bug/99605

[Amran (amx109)]

i switched the settings to use the snack tcl library and things work ok

i think it might be worth submitting another bug with regards to default
configuration...

[Kevin (kevin64-deactivatedaccount)]

Is the problem persists in the final version of Ubuntu 8.04?

[Peter_Melse (peter-melse)]

I believe it still exists in the final release of 8.04.1 (I'm not certain if this is the correct place to report this in launchpad though.