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@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ Install needed node.js libraries
 ```
 npm install
 ```
+## Pre-reqs
+
+In addition to the node.js packages, you must have an audio player such as mplayer, sox, mpg123 or mpg321 installed, etc. This is currently specified manually in line 15-16 (mplayer by default). mplayer can be installed via your package manager.
 
 ## Usage