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/
> > >
> > >
> > >
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