xmms .. ughh..

"Shawn T. Rutledge" wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:01:52PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> > Anyone else have any luck at all with xmms??
>
> Yeah it works beautfully for me. Only oddity is that when I close
> the window, sometimes the process hangs around for a while. But
> I didn't compile it; there's a Debian package.
>
> I tried to get it to work on that low-end laptop though, the one with
> the Mwave DSP... it pretends to be a Soundblaster Pro, and can only
> do 8 bit, 22khz. xmms doesn't deal with it; it tries to play all the
> samples anyway, with the result being like playing a 78 RPM record
> at the LP speed. :-) But xmms supposedly uses the mpg123 engine, and
> mpg123 has a -2 flag which tells it to downsample to half the rate,
> and that works fine on this machine. So if you see any compilation
> options to use this feature in xmms, let me know wouldja? Otherwise
> I'll just try to use the clumsy ugly front end for mpg123, called gmp3.
>
> There's also FreeAmp; it does the same thing (plays at half speed).
> But maybe it would work for you.
>
> Another problem with that laptop is the volume control doesn't work.
> It happens to play MP3's very quietly, while system beeps are reasonably
> loud. This morning (now that I got a working modem, thanks guys for all
> the offers!) I noticed that it plays the modem connect tones through the
> laptop's main speakers too... loudly. So even with amplified speakers
> the low volume will be a nuisance. (I'll just have to turn down the
> modem volume with the appropriate AT command.) I could've swore it was
> louder before I messed with the DOS settings so will probably try re-
> installing the DOS mwave driver.

splay 0.8.2 (what I use now from the commandline) handles halving of
samples beautifully. Check it out.

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