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Trivially complex.

Thursday, 19 January 2006  |  Cristian Tibirna

I found a sound clip. OGG. I wanted to listen to it. Just listen.

  • So I clicked on it.
  • KDE offered to open it with Kaffeine. I accepted
  • Kaffeine started and promptly gave me an error dialog but no sound.
  • Went back and chose another player from the context menu: amarok.
  • amarok started, asked me 5 (five) almost identical question dialogs (sequentially!) but no sound.
  • Back to the context menu and chose xmms.
  • xmms started, gave an error dialog about sound card not being available but no sound.
  • Back to the context menu, RealPlayer 10 was offered but I already lost interest.
  • Copied the url of the sound bit, went to the konsole, wrote ogg123 and pasted the url then hit enter. Bam! Instant Sound.

Trivially complex :-(