xmms doesnt paly fies


Forum: Multimedia
Topic: xmms doesnt paly fies
started by: Damn_Small_Jeff

Posted by Damn_Small_Jeff on June 28 2006,00:58
i click play after opening the file i wish to paly, but it doesnt do a thing!!!! plus, it wont play cds. i think im linuxtard.
Posted by piccolo on June 28 2006,09:30
Try this play sound test without audio file:

Using XMMS, chosse "Play Location" and write "tone://1000" (without quotation marks).
That should generate a 1000 hertz tone.

If you can't hear the tone then you need configure the sound driver.

Posted by Damn_Small_Jeff on June 28 2006,16:31
ok, i hear the tone, now what?
Posted by piccolo on June 28 2006,22:25
Then the sound driver work fine fortunately. That is important because it is the most frequent and difficult problem here.
Your problem can be one of these:

- To play either from a CD drive or another drive first you must mount the drive using either Mount Tool or Emelfm applications.
- What is the audio file format?. XMMS can need some plugin to play specific audio file formats.

Also another media player from MyDSL extensions that you can try instead XMMS is: Mplayer.

Posted by mikshaw on June 29 2006,02:05
Quote (piccolo @ June 28 2006,18:25)
- To play either from a CD drive or another drive first you must mount the drive using either Mount Tool or Emelfm applications.

If it's a standard audio CD, this won't work.  Audio CDs and commercial DVD movies do not mount as typical iso9660 roms, so you'd need to play them directly from the device:
xmms  /dev/cdrom

Posted by piccolo on June 29 2006,09:31
Many thanks for your input mikshaw, I did not know that.
Posted by Damn_Small_Jeff on June 29 2006,18:49
Quote (mikshaw @ June 28 2006,22:05)
Quote (piccolo @ June 28 2006,18:25)
- To play either from a CD drive or another drive first you must mount the drive using either Mount Tool or Emelfm applications.

If it's a standard audio CD, this won't work.  Audio CDs and commercial DVD movies do not mount as typical iso9660 roms, so you'd need to play them directly from the device:
xmms  /dev/cdrom

well, i think my system recognices the thumb stick as the cdrom drive.

and the format is an mp3, and i have a wav that im trying also

what is mounting the drive and how do i do it. i dont want to screw my system up.

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