Linonut wrote:

Face me you little punk. Come out you little punk. You can run you
little punk, but you can't hide you little punk.

"Linonut" wrote in message
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> Has anybody tried out XMMS2? It's similar to MPD -- it is a daemon that
> runs, and your clients connect to it to load its media library,
> playlists, tunes, URLs, etc.
>
> I can't get it to run properly through streamtuner, but it does have a
> nice little gkrellm GUI (as well as a number of other GUI clients and
> CLI and web clients).
>
> Rather than use streamtuner, I've just made a directory full of playlist
> files downloaded from (for example) sky.fm and soma.fm, and the command
> to load it up is "xmms2 addpls path_to_pls_file", which is good enough
> for my usage.

You have to run this thing from the command line? Do you expect kids who
listen to music to have to drop down to the command line in order to add a
playlist?


> The only other problem I've found is that when I stop and restart
> playback using fluxbox keystrokes, the memory usage shoots up a bit.
> Weird.
>
> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).

How about just one that works instead of a half-dozen incompatible ones that
don't?



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"Linonut" schreef in bericht
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> Has anybody tried out XMMS2? It's similar to MPD -- it is a daemon that
> runs, and your clients connect to it to load its media library,
> playlists, tunes, URLs, etc.
>
> I can't get it to run properly through streamtuner, but it does have a
> nice little gkrellm GUI (as well as a number of other GUI clients and
> CLI and web clients).

Get your wife's or daughter's XP computer and get Esperanza, as always linux
sucks!
http://exodus.xmms.se/~tru/screens/e.../0.2/win32.png

>
> Rather than use streamtuner, I've just made a directory full of playlist
> files downloaded from (for example) sky.fm and soma.fm, and the command
> to load it up is "xmms2 addpls path_to_pls_file", which is good enough
> for my usage.
>
> The only other problem I've found is that when I stop and restart
> playback using fluxbox keystrokes, the memory usage shoots up a bit.
> Weird.
>
> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).
>

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:53:40 -0400, Linonut wrote:

> Has anybody tried out XMMS2? It's similar to MPD -- it is a daemon that
> runs, and your clients connect to it to load its media library,
> playlists, tunes, URLs, etc.
>
> I can't get it to run properly through streamtuner, but it does have a
> nice little gkrellm GUI (as well as a number of other GUI clients and
> CLI and web clients).
>
> Rather than use streamtuner, I've just made a directory full of playlist
> files downloaded from (for example) sky.fm and soma.fm, and the command
> to load it up is "xmms2 addpls path_to_pls_file", which is good enough
> for my usage.
>
> The only other problem I've found is that when I stop and restart
> playback using fluxbox keystrokes, the memory usage shoots up a bit.
> Weird.
>
> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).

Sigh....
Just what Linux doesn't need....
Another audio server...


--
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:05 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

> "Linonut" wrote in message
> news:gh2hk.4822$w93.1487@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>> Has anybody tried out XMMS2? It's similar to MPD -- it is a daemon that
>> runs, and your clients connect to it to load its media library,
>> playlists, tunes, URLs, etc.
>>
>> I can't get it to run properly through streamtuner, but it does have a
>> nice little gkrellm GUI (as well as a number of other GUI clients and
>> CLI and web clients).
>>
>> Rather than use streamtuner, I've just made a directory full of playlist
>> files downloaded from (for example) sky.fm and soma.fm, and the command
>> to load it up is "xmms2 addpls path_to_pls_file", which is good enough
>> for my usage.
>
> You have to run this thing from the command line? Do you expect kids who
> listen to music to have to drop down to the command line in order to add a
> playlist?

Some of these Linux bozos actually *do* think like that.
Jebbediah and Shearman to mention two.


>
>> The only other problem I've found is that when I stop and restart
>> playback using fluxbox keystrokes, the memory usage shoots up a bit.
>> Weird.
>>
>> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
>> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).
>
> How about just one that works instead of a half-dozen incompatible ones that
> don't?

It's all about choice.
Sooner or later one of the choices has to work.....



--
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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:

> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).

http://www.icecast.org

http://www.pulseaudio.org

Personally I just play all mine over NFS through Amarok.

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> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>
>> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
>> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).
>
> http://www.icecast.org

That one is a streaming server, not quite what XMMS2 is.

> http://www.pulseaudio.org

Interesting. Xmms2 has a pulseaudio plugin ("enables pulseaudio output
for xmms2"). The documentation says pulseaudio is like ESD (Enlightened
Sound Daemon) but with more features, including allowing an application
to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is
running on.

It looks like it can also collected audio from different sources, mix it
together, and then send it to a sound card.

Here's a fancy-ass diagram:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...io-diagram.png

May have to dig into it a little.

> Personally I just play all mine over NFS through Amarok.

Right now, all I want is a minimalist GUI. My main use cases right now
are:

Add a URL to the default playlist

Add a PLS file to the default playlist

Add a directory of audio files to the default playlist

Control the playback locally with a tiny GUI

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The time when men of reason go to bed.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Linonut writes:

> * Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>>
>>> What other audio servers are there? I know of xmms2, mpd, and
>>> slimserver (a Free Perl app from a proprietary company).
>>
>> http://www.icecast.org
>
> That one is a streaming server, not quite what XMMS2 is.
>
>> http://www.pulseaudio.org
>
> Interesting. Xmms2 has a pulseaudio plugin ("enables pulseaudio output
> for xmms2"). The documentation says pulseaudio is like ESD (Enlightened
> Sound Daemon) but with more features, including allowing an application
> to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is
> running on.
>
> It looks like it can also collected audio from different sources, mix it
> together, and then send it to a sound card.

Whats more interesting is that when I highlighted that I *needed* to
install Pulseaudio to get simultaneous sound sources working I was
called a liar.

Pulseaudio in this case can select which of many servers it connects to.

>
> Here's a fancy-ass diagram:
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...io-diagram.png
>
> May have to dig into it a little.

As usual, Liarnut finds from tech stuff he hasn't a clue about and posts
it hinting that he's au fait with such. What a fraud.

>
>> Personally I just play all mine over NFS through Amarok.
>
> Right now, all I want is a minimalist GUI. My main use cases right now
> are:

YOu'll find minimalist in xmms alright - was there ever an uglier mm program?

>
> Add a URL to the default playlist
>
> Add a PLS file to the default playlist
>
> Add a directory of audio files to the default playlist

dont forget recursive.

And add "to specified playlist" to all those too. Most people construct
playlists when another one is playing. See Amarok for how not to do it.

>
> Control the playback locally with a tiny GUI

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