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Some neat little script for artsd replacement. First, you need to disable arts, then - under notifications there is a switch for configuring a seperate player... there goes the complete path to our script below:

/usr/local/bin/soundplayer (mode 755)

#!/bin/bash 
FILE="$1"
DEVICE="plug:$2"
[ "$DEVICE" == "plug:" ] && DEVICE="default"
case `echo "$FILE" | sed -re "s/.*\.(.*)$/\1/"` in 
        ogg) 
                oggdec -o- -- "$FILE" 2>/dev/null | aplay -q -D $DEVICE
                ;; 
        mp3|mpg|mpeg) 
                mpg321 -w - -q -- "$FILE"  2>/dev/null | aplay -q -D $DEVICE
                ;; 
        wav|au) 
                aplay -q -D "$DEVICE" -- "$FILE"
                ;; 
esac

Annotation: On Gentoo, you may compile your system with USE="-arts", but you need to enable arts for kdelibs and arts itself (for building knotify!)