[SOLVED]Transmission-Sound doesnt play once torrent finishes

[4joeyirosh1]

Hi!I am running Debian 9.5 Stretch 64 bit.I have latest version of transmission 2.92-2+deb9u1 installed and from Preferences I have ticked 'Play a sound when torrents finish'.

Unfortunately,when torrents finish no sound is played.

Kindly assist.

[debiman]

probably only works on a full-blown gnome desktop.

either provide more info, or try this workaround:

do you also have an option to "run script when torrent finishes"?
i do, and i have pointed it to this script:

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#!/bin/sh

notify-send "Torrent finished:" "$TR_TORRENT_NAME"
espeak "Torrent finished: $TR_TORRENT_NAME"
exit 0

it works.
of course that espeak is very ugly, only for testing. you might want to replace it with "aplay nice_ding.wav" or something.
do you know how to use this or should we walk you through it?

[4joeyirosh1]

probably only works on a full-blown gnome desktop.

either provide more info, or try this workaround:

do you also have an option to "run script when torrent finishes"?
i do, and i have pointed it to this script:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh

notify-send "Torrent finished:" "$TR_TORRENT_NAME"
espeak "Torrent finished: $TR_TORRENT_NAME"
exit 0

it works.
of course that espeak is very ugly, only for testing. you might want to replace it with "aplay nice_ding.wav" or something.
do you know how to use this or should we walk you through it?

Nice workaround.I installed sox package,appended to your script a line to play customized mp3 file command below and I checked the box on transmission to run the script when torrent finishes and it works beautifully

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#!/bin/sh

notify-send "Torrent finished:" "$TR_TORRENT_NAME"
play torrent_finished.mp3
espeak "Torrent finished: $TR_TORRENT_NAME"
exit 0

Thanks a lot.

[debiman]

^ so you like the espeak robot voice

it would creep me out to have my computer talking back to me like that (mine's completely silent until i start playing something on it), but to each their own!