Hey all... I need a simple stopwatch program. I need to be able to set it say for 5 minutes, and then when the 5 min. are up, my PC plays a tune/alarms. What would you recommend?

See here:
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html

Only useful if you are using kde...

Thanks, but I'm using gnome and I realized that what I really need is something that will "count down" and then sound an alarm. There's gotta be something out there for us gnome users...

Have a llok through these from google:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/P...rs/index.shtml

Maybe the Cloxten one?

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Thanks Ipsofacto.... I'll try it out... thanks again..

command line

> sleep 300; play soundfile.wav

Not a gui, but effective.

WOW!!! ... i love the command line.... Thanks for that, but I keep getting this error

sox: Failed reading Track01.mp3: Do not understand format type: mp3

or

sox: Failed reading xxxx.wav: Sorry, this WAV file is in MPEG Layer 3 format.

How do I fix?

I ran the play command on a Suse 9.1 and 10.0 system (both upgraded with Packman rpms) with both mp3 and wav files and it worked. What version of Suse are you running?

The play command is part of the sox system. Sounds like your sox install isn't supporting mp3.

When you tried the play command on the wav file, was it actually a wav format file or did you rename your mp3 file? Try it on a system wav file.

What version of sox is installed on your system? Run this command:

> rpm -qa | grep sox

Tried with .wav and mp3 files. Did not rename any files.

Running SuSE 10

sox ver: sox-12.17.7-6

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OK, I was wrong, my suse 10 did not play the mp3, but will play wavs. I had the same version: sox-12.17.7-6. Suse must have not compiled mp3 support in that one.

I uninstalled that sox version with Yast then installed the sox-12.17.5-2.i586.rpm from Suse 9.2. That allowed me to play both wavs and mp3s. Not sure if downgrading will cause me other problems, but we'll see. When I uninstalled in Yast there were a couple of packages that were dependent, but hopefully they'll use the older version ok.

You can find the older 9.2 rpm here:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/9.....5-2.i586.html

Also, your not limited to using the play command from sox. If you have mplayer and/or mpg321 installed from Packman, you can use them on the command line to play mp3s.
> mplayer file.mp3
> mpg321 file.mp3

Get them from Packman
http://packman.links2linux.org/

Easiest is the add Packman repository to your Yast and install the packages from there.

> sleep xxx; mplayer xxx.mp3 worked like a charm. I will use that... This is sooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeet....

Thanks Ipsofacto and linuxbot for the help.