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Ah, but I can't make it that easy, now I can I?

Basically, I'm looking for a Linux-based program in which I can assign specific sounds to specifc keys. For example, I could assign an MP3 of some song to play when I hit "a," and so on. Does anyone know if such a program exists?

If not, is there a way I can hack the same functionality from existing programs? If it makes a difference, I'm using Ubuntu Dapper. Your responses, as always, are appreciated and will be reward with plunder and wimminz. Or menz, if that's your preference.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, to clarify, it's the latter; I just want to be able to play a specif file or group of files without having to find it in a playlist.

So, for a shell script, can I get away with using something like 'cat /home/alferd/song.wav > /dev/dsp', or are there command-line programs better-suited for this sort of thing? Similarly, are there any special considerations I need to take for file formats, like MP3 or OGG files?

I just use mplayer, kind of starts up slow though for random sound files. Plays nearly anything though. There are a few other CLI apps for playing them, search the apt repos.

Catting into /dev/dsp only works if the sound card isn't already in use, and so isn't really ideal.

As it turns out, Ubuntu does have play, but for some reason, mp3 files sound asstacular when I play them via play, so I just used mpg321 in the scripts.