Sound

Scid vs PC has limited sound capabilities, It can speak moves in English, or play a tock sound with every move. Alternatively, FICS can also play a tock sound to announce your opponents move.

The feature relies on a slow and poorly maintained Tcl package, Snack, which should be installed by default on Windows and OSX. On Linux this package is known as "libsnack" and "tcl-snack". For more info, see below.

To see if sound is enabled, examine the Startup Window. The sound options are configured from the Options--> Sounds menu.

Sound may be disabled by selecting an invalid folder.

Linux Snack Issues

If Scid only plays every second move, you have a buggy libsnack, and should compile snack-2.2.10 from source.

• * It should be installed in the same lib as tcl/tk (generally /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib).
• * If you get a compilation error in file generic/jkFormatMP3.c, move the "#include " line in this file to above "#define roundf(x)".