New Media player in .9.0

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: New Media player in .9.0
started by: caulktel

Posted by caulktel on Dec. 03 2004,01:16

I.m kind of sad to see XMMS go, I know it's downloadable as a extention, but still miss it just the same. Does the new DSL Media player support Shoutcast .pls streaming audio?

Posted by laughing_gas on Dec. 03 2004,02:32

Every time there is a new release of dsl someone has to make a sad face. I just checked, xmms.dsl is 666k, while firefox.tar.gz is 8241k, what would you rather download?

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 03 2004,02:35

Isn't the new "player" just a flua wrapper for mpg123, ogg321, and mplayer?

In answer to your question, no, it won't do shoutcast streaming.

It might do .m3u streaming, like edna provides, but I haven't tried it yet.

My connection isn't fast or stable enough for streaming, so I really don't miss that too much. But I do wish there was a way to (easily) point the new player at a different directory, like my fat32 partition that holds my music.

I suppose I could replace the media folder with a symlink to the right place...

Posted by roberts on Dec. 03 2004,02:47

Or you could just use emelfm and navigate to your collection of mp3's or mpgs and then double click.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 03 2004,03:55

Yes, but will all of them be loaded into some sore to playlist, or will I have to double click for every new song?

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 03 2004,05:35

Here is a small script that can be used to play *.pls files in DSL version 0.9

Copy and paste the text below into mp or pw and save as a text file, following the included instructions. Hope this helps.

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
#
# playpls Decodes the first stream in a PLS file and
# plays it via the mpg321 command line mp3
# player. Code shamelessly stolen from a
# script in the streamripper.sourceforge.net
# forums.
#
# Save this script as a text file
# named playpls and then type:
# chmod 755 playpls
#
# To use type:
# ./playpls plsfilename.pls
# or associate it to .pls filetype in your
# web browser settings.
#
# To stop the music from playing, open an
# xterminal window and type:
# killall -9 mpg321

plsf="$1"
url="`cat "$plsf"|grep File1|cut '-d=' -f2`"
mpg321 $url
exit

Posted by John on Dec. 03 2004,06:29

Also, look for further enhancements to the media player. I will build as much functionality into it as possible.

Posted by Max on Dec. 03 2004,06:39

How do you play just a plain old music CD? I can't figure out how to get ASCD to do anything. (Note: I booted off of a USB stick so I could have the use of the CDROM)

Posted by Max on Dec. 03 2004,06:48

OK... figured it out....I was just impatient for it to load and be recognized.....

Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 03 2004,10:40

i have a little problem with "media.flua"
if i start i get:

Quote

error: bad argument #1 to `read' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
1: function `read' [C]
2: main of file `/usr/local/bin/media.flua' at line 104

i looked inside media.flua
from line 98: i removed the last &
now it works.

btw how do i cut from MP and paste into Firefox?

Posted by abakis on Dec. 07 2004,11:20

omg...i loved xmms

..... i love this distro alot...ordered them on mini's i loved it so much

.. used to go to bed to it every night now..no xmms...

..i miss my techno. and my old distros do not work on my newer pc's. Please bring back xmms!!!

homeboy needs to sleep :-P

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 07 2004,16:15

There is a very nice, small extension for xmms in the repository.
No need to be without your xmms...

73
ke4nt

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 07 2004,16:22

ke4nt1 to the rescue!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 07 2004,20:44

we need to find some stuff to kick out of dsl so we can get xmms back