I have been using noatun a lot lately (daily from around 7:00pm until
11:00 or 12:00 straight) and twice now in as many weeks (since my 10.2
fresh install) noatun has hung with a loud repeating
dun,dun,dun...sound like a note is in a tight loop of sorts. I can't
shutdown noatun and so try logging out of kde and eventually a window pops
up saying asking to shut it down; it does then logout proceeds. I can
go back in kde and it works normally until, well. I have the 10.2 install
versions of kde (arts-1.4.2-i486-1). Any ideas; I couldn't find anything
in any logs, and don't know where to go on this one (accept maybe 'out the
window' hehe).

Much appreciated,
Aaron.

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:54:12 +0000, aaronl wrote:

> [...] noatun has hung with a loud repeating
> dun,dun,dun...sound like a note is in a tight loop of sorts [...]

I'm trying to find a program (maybe one already included in slackware)
that I can use to play .mp3 files outside of X. I would spend a lot less
time in windows env if I could fill that gap. I havn't found one yet but
I did find 'xmms' which I'm using now instead of noatun--and it looks
'super coo'!

Aaron

Le Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:37:08 +0000, aaronl a écrit*:

> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:54:12 +0000, aaronl wrote:
>
>> [...] noatun has hung with a loud repeating
>> dun,dun,dun...sound like a note is in a tight loop of sorts [...]
>
> I'm trying to find a program (maybe one already included in slackware)
> that I can use to play .mp3 files outside of X. I would spend a lot less
> time in windows env if I could fill that gap. I havn't found one yet but
> I did find 'xmms' which I'm using now instead of noatun--and it looks
> 'super coo'!

In console, you can use aplay to play the output
of the mpg321 decoder, here a short script :

#!/bin/sh
###
printf "Now playing : %s\n\n" "${@}"
mpg321 -q -w - "${@}" | aplay -f cd -D plug:SLAVE='hw:0'
### to play on the other card :
### mpg321 -q -w - "${@}" | aplay -f cd -D plug:SLAVE='hw:1'


Note that you can prepare different scripts for the different
formats of encoding you may use, for instance .ogg and .flac
would use :

ogg123 -d wav -f - $* | aplay -f cd -D plug:SLAVE='hw:0'

flac -cd $1 | aplay -f cd -D plug:SLAVE='hw:0'


Mind that the use of $@, $*, or $1, protected and unprotected
are here just to show the script can be simple in case you don't have
to cope with filenames with a b0rken windows namespace ;-)


aplay is in package ap/alsa-utils-1.0.9a-i486-2.tgz
mpg321 is in package ap/mpg321-0.2.10-i486-2.tgz

Good listening :-)

On 2005-10-02, Loki Harfagr <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote:
> Le Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:37:08 +0000, aaronl a écrit*:
>
>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:54:12 +0000, aaronl wrote:
>>
>>> [...] noatun has hung with a loud repeating
>>> dun,dun,dun...sound like a note is in a tight loop of sorts [...]
>>
>> I'm trying to find a program (maybe one already included in slackware)
>> that I can use to play .mp3 files outside of X. I would spend a lot less
>> time in windows env if I could fill that gap. I havn't found one yet but
>> I did find 'xmms' which I'm using now instead of noatun--and it looks
>> 'super coo'!
>

Check out workbone. It can even play from the cd drive iirc
--
Best Regards,

Mike Reynolds

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:19:52 +0200, Loki Harfagr wrote:

>In console, you can use aplay to play the output
> of the mpg321 decoder, here a short script :

thanks - just what i needed.

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:37:08 +0000, aaronl wrote:

> I did find 'xmms' which I'm using now instead of noatun [...]

One more comment here;

Now that I'm trying out 'xmms' for playing .mp3's in kde I've noticed
that sometimes it throws a check configuration error box upon starting up.
This seems linked to the kde sound system which I have now disabled in the
control panel, but I do still get the error if I use noatun then shut it
down then use xmms. It seems the kde sound system takes exclusive control
of hardware and doesn't go idle for 60 seconds--when xmms will then start,
I even changed the idle time to 0 in control center but the straight from
noatun to xmms issue still occurs.

I wonder why aRts doesn't play nice and let other sound servers excerise
their existential muscles without having to standing in line. Maybe there
are programming/functional reasons behind it. Anyway, minus one for kde
I guess.

aaron