Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@citycable.ch>]

BTW, alsaplayer is in the proaudio overlay now.
http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
It is 2 versions, a -r5 with the last Debian fixes, and a broken gtk2
cvs version.

Dominique

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:26:56 +0000 (UTC)
"Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> posted
> 200608221453.49851.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com, excerpted below, on  Tue, 22
Aug
> 2006 14:53:38 +0530:
> 
> > On Monday 21 August 2006 19:53, Olivier Crête wrote:
> >>
> >> You can use ogg123
> >>
> > Some of the files are wav files as well, so I can't play them using
> > ogg123 and KDE doesn't allow use to use multiple alternate players
for
> > playing its files.
> 
> FWIW, I've dealt with the problem as well (altho I have arts, its age
is
> showing and it gets broken with some versions of KDE), so I know the
> frustration.  An idea I haven't tried but which popped into my head as
I
> was reading your post... what about creating a simple shell script
that
> looks at the file it's handed and determines whether to call ogg123 or
> mpg321 or whatever, based on extension or what "file" thinks it is?
> 
> Fortunately arts and the built-in events player are working for me
ATM,
> but I may try this next time something breaks.
> 
> ...  Looking forward to KDE4 and getting rid of arts!
> 

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