On Monday 28 June 2004 20:57, you wrote: > YOu know guys, > I just got off of the phone with a fellow PLUGer and he was under the > misconception that I believe many of you may be under; that is that I don't > have an encoder in place (which is not the case). My issue is that while > the .wav files will play just fine I can't get the files that have been > encoded as .mp3s to play. I'm being a little lazy here, I haven't read every post on this topic, so forgive me if someone else mentioned this. However, I just remembered that last Christmas I needed to convert some CD track files to MP3 and I downloaded the source for a program called bladeenc, which worked very well for me. The version was 0.94.2. Vaughn > We even loaded xmms up and he showed me how to configure it. Unfortunately > I had already read in it's man page (and it proved to be true) that it is > configured by default to play .mp3s. > > So my 5 gig partition I had set aside for music is now filled to the brim > with .wav files. They sound very nice but are VERY BIG. The same song is > 41.9MB as a WAV but 128 B as an MP3 > > Now I have a new issue: I shut down the system and upon restarting, after > entering the login and password, an alert appeared informing me that > 'nspluginscan' crashed (signal 11).Then the desktop started to appear and > the following error appeared six seperate times: > > Could not find mime type application/octet-stream > > I'm sure this is the last thing you want to hear.... wait... let's google > it! So I entered the error in the search box presssed enter... and voila; a > bunch of hits came up. > I followed this solution (1) and wanted to knw if it is appropriate.I also > found a solution which involves deleting a file so I knew I better ask if > it was good (2). > > 1- > To solve this problem: > 1) open konqueror (dismiss the warnings) > 2) click "Settings" then "Configure Konqueror..." > 3) click on the "File Associations" button/icon > 4) click the "Add..." button > 5) change the Group to application, type "octet-stream" into the Type > name field > 6) Press OK > 7) change the icon/description to suit your taste. Don't touch the > filename patterns though. > press OK > > 2- > I had the same problem and was able to correct it by deleting this file. > It seemed that the contents were mangled: > ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop > > After writing the above I thought that 'nsplugin crashed during login' > might be an appropriate search term to help find a solution to the > remaining problem. So into the search box it went and a few hits appeared: > > I found that someone reported it as a bug to RedHat but it went on further > to say that "It was barfing on some not-100%-standard Mozilla plugin but > that it was fixed in 2.2-5 but that isn't right. > > So can you tell me what is right? > > On Monday 28 June 2004 14:47, Rowan Smith wrote: > > I do actually believe that sometimes RTFM is a valid response. > > > > But it would be really cool if you included a decent query string in the > > link to google. Very often novice users know what they need, but not > > what to search for. A great example appeared in the thread: "Anti-virus > > Software" where a user wanted information on "clamav", but were > > searching for clamscan". In that situation > > "http://www.google.com/search?q=clamav" would have been a good response. > > > > I do realize that in this wav -> mp3 case the google query would be > > quite simple. > > > > rowan > > > > Matt Alexander wrote: > > >On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Michael Havens wrote: > > >>What could I use to convert a wav file to mp3? I ripped a bunch of > > >> audio files to wav but I didn't have the encode to mp3 button checked. > > >> And I am really hoping that I won't have to rip all the files again. > > >> > > >>Wait a second; xmms won't play the few mp3s I have. Neither will > > >> noatun, nor plaympeg. What are mp3s played with? According to the MAN > > >> pages xmms is supposed to play them!; There is no manpage for noatun; > > >> and plaympeg just errored out (1-) but it also says that it can't find > > >> the beginning of MPEG data (2) > > > > > >Mike, I believe that this website should have the answer for you: > > > > > >http://www.google.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------- > > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss