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My sound card can do hardware mixing quite well, so I've decided I don't really need artsd running anymore. For system notifications I'm using /usr/bin/play and this works; however, I can't figure out how to control the volume of the sounds. It should be as simple as passing the -v option to play, but adding any options at all breaks it and I get no system notification sounds at all. Does anybody know how to make this work, or suggest an alternate approach? I guess I could use sound editing software to lower the volume in each wav file, but this seems rather crude and would make it difficult to add or change sound files later.

Here is my knotifyrc: (when it works)

[Misc]
External player=play
LastConfiguredApp=The KDE Window Manager
Use external player=true
Volume=47

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false

The "Volume=" doesn't seem to have any affect unless I use the KDE Sound System (arts) for system notifications. I've tried External player="play -v .3" but this breaks it and I get no system notification sounds at all. I've tried the option on the console so I know I have the syntax right.

Any idea's would be appreciated.

This works great. Thanks for the tip. I never really understood the use of positional parameters, but now I see. (Your suggestion+re-reading bash man page.) I did have to add double quotes around $@ so it would work with file names with spaces in them. Other than that your suggestion was perfect. Thanks again.