Playing a sound using Crontab

Question

I downloaded a music file named bell.mp3 and stored it in my /home/username/Downloads

I was able to play it using mplayer

sudo apt-get install mplayer

mplayer /home/username/Downloads/bell.mp3

However, I want to play it every minute but it didn't work.

*/1 * * * * mplayer /home/username/Downloads/bell.mp3

Is my syntax incorrect? What should I do?

Answer 1

I don't know if it's an mplayer thing but I do something similar with mpg123.

This is my user crontab (not /etc/crontab, just normal user):

0 6-22 * * * /usr/bin/mpg123 /home/me/sounds/magpies.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1

Check that the user is also member of the groups audio and video