sound terminal

seuchato · posted: 2010-10-16 16:29

Hi all

I am enjoying antix 8.5 on a thinkpad 240 with 192 MB Ram, a 4GB HD and it is running well. I am impressed. I have native keyboard and language, synaptics, in short a perfect distro!

Thanks a lot for that top work, indeed.

I am using the TP240 as a soundterminal. on my server I have Gnump3d and I can trigger playing of songs through links2. All smooth. What I am struggling though is to set up:

a) on toolbar an entry that starts links2 with the gnump3d website

prog"muisic browsing" links2
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
linktext was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
====================================

from a terminal" links2
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
linktext was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
====================================
" works as expected, but not from
the toolbar. How can I fix this
b) I would love to autostart links2 with
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
linktext was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
====================================
whenever the machine boots. I edited the startup file in .icewm dir

...
## Set wallpaper via nitrogen
rm $HOME/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg
ln -s $HOME/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved-icewm.cfg $HOME/.config/nitrogen/bg-saved.cfg
nitrogen --restore &

## Start links with gnump3d page to browse
links2
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
linktext was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
====================================
&

I never get Links2 to actually launch on boot. How can I fix this?

greetings to all chris

rokytnji · posted: 2010-10-16 18:39

Not sure. But wouldn't it be

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links2 &

and underneath links2 &

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http://webserver/gnump3d:8888 &

or

links2 &&
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
linktext was:"http://webserver/gnump3d:8888"
====================================
&

Just a guess though.

dark-D · posted: 2010-10-17 01:23

how about this?

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prog"music browsing" roxterm -e links2 http://webserver/gnump3d:8888

or for links with gui

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prog"music browsing" links2 -g http://webserver/gnump3d:8888

for startup i guess:

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roxterm -e links2 http://webserver/gnump3d:8888 &

or

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links2 -g http://webserver/gnump3d:8888 &

hope this helps.

seuchato · posted: 2010-10-17 07:45

Thanks ICE-M and rokytnji

ICE-M wrote:how about this?
or for links with gui
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prog"music browsing" links2 -g http://webserver/gnump3d:8888 
for startup i guess:
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links2 -g http://webserver/gnump3d:8888 &
hope this helps.

This works now, great! I did not put the"-g" parameter. What I would still like to do is

- starting links2 in fullscreen mode
The man and -help screens do not list an option to do this, however, th user may do it by
the menu Display/Fullscreen (press f)
- making sure that links2 comes up again if a user would close it by accident.
I guess I will have to write a bash script for that probably checks the for links2

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#!/bin/bash
page=http://webserver/gnump3d:8888
int=2

while true; do

  sleep $int
  running=$(ps -ef | grep links2 | wc -l)
  echo"running = $running"

  if (("$running" <"2" )); then
    links2 -g $page &
  fi
done

save izt in $HOME and call this script in startup like this:

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...
$HOME/loopbrowser &

Add a user that logs in automagically and you have your kiosk music browser. A word on links2 and how to play the music.
I first tried with the xmms and xmms2. Both worked - kind of. I removed them and replaced them by audacious, now it is perfect. in Links2 you will need to set the mime correctly. go to setup/file extensions, add
- extention : m3u
- content type : audio/x-mpegurl
and in setup/associations add
- Label : m3u
- content type : audio/x-mpegurl
- Program : audacious %

greets chris

seuchato · posted: 2010-11-22 02:49

Hi all

Discovered a problem I could not resolve to date. I started in rereading my cd's in flac for long term storage reasons. I still have the mp3 rips avalable on my server. these play withouth problems. However, if I call the album ripped in flac, audacious does not play them. I verified, the server streams out flacs on other clients (amarok, vlc, mplayer), verified the .m3u file's content, checked the server (gnump3d), the very install of audacious (version 2.3.2) : Still audacious does not play flacs
I read about v 1.5.x having a problem with flacs, but that seems to be gon with 2.3. Any one can help?

greez

chris

seuchato · posted: 2010-12-07 11:49

audacity and flac problem, no one an idea?

greez chris

oldhoghead · posted: 2010-12-07 14:32

Don't really know audacious, but maybe you could start it in terminal and see if there are any errors when you try to play flac

cheers,
ohh

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-12-07 14:53

goggles music manager plays flac. Have you installed libflac and flac?