Upon upgrading to Mandrake 8.2, I no longer can make XMMS work. Noatun however works fine (used to crash every time under 8.0) Now I want to play a particular wave file when Kmail receives new mail. What command should I enter into Kmail setting to make the one wav file play once but not bring up the Noatun window? right now I changed playlist to one file and put "noatun" on command line in Kmail settings. Plays file but leaves noatun window open. Then if I use noatun somewhere else all files I;ve used that are somewhere in computer play in a loop when I get new mail. Know this is probably trivial, but is driving me nuts. Thanks for any help. I've tried file line just describing the wav file, but that wont open noatun to play it.

You can use the "play" command to play a .wav file (only pcm though, nothing fancy is supported, if you're talking about a mp3-wav file, use mpg123 or mpg321). This command comes with the sox package, so make sure you have that installed. Note however, that "play" outputs to the oss device. If you need something else, use a different play program (aplay for alsa, esdplay for esd, etc, I bet arts has artsplay or something).

Worked like a charm. Thanks.