sound configuration for pidgin

[Wes Morgan]

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