Re: esound and playing mp3's ?

["Yo 'Ric Dude" <ericmit ix netcom com>]

mpg123 supports esd directly. "make linux-esd"
replay supports esd directly, configure should detect it.
emusic supports esd directly, configure should detect it.
x11amp works under the esddsp wrapper: esddsp x11amp

The coolest thing about playing mp3s under an esd-compatible 
setup is that you still get gtkicq and tik (aim) audio 
notifications.  presumably, any configurable audio notifier
(irc, aubiff, etc.) will work as well.


Michael Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 raster@redhat.com wrote:
> > On  9 Jan, R Pickett scribbled:
> > ->  On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Michael Johnson wrote:
> > ->  > It's really sad to have to kill esd to play an mp3 and then restart
> > ->  > it when you're finished as I think the whole point of having a sound
> > ->  > daemon was to not have to do this.
> > ->  Ah, a topic near and dear to my heart.
> > ->  I don't run esd, simple because I mostly run 'un-enlightened' sound-producing
> > ->  programs.  The entire concept that a single daemon is going to grab my sound
> > ->  hardware and only allow access to esd-compliant programs seems very contrary
> > ->  to the goals of OpenSource;  it's a very "my way or the highway" attitude for
> >
> > incorrect. RTFM pay attention.
> >
> > esddsp app_name
> >
> > donest work with everything but works with quiet a few standard audio
> > apps.
> > esdctl off
> > esdctl on
> 
> > well if apps were written well and latency was an issue they coudl
> > happily upload samples to esd then tell esd to play then as needed.
> > esd is not finished - give it a break boy! do you think they developed
> > X11 in a year? esd is the correct principle - it is the sampel
> > rpinciple by whihc X works - you dont seem to complain about this. If
> > you have issues then HELP wiht development. Dont' just sit and complain.
> 
> I don't like being quoted out of context. I realize esddsp works ---the
> original poster asked about mp3s and since I use mpg123 some of the time
> my first thought was to 'mpg123 -s file | esdcat' becuase esddsp doesn't
> work with mpg123. Comments re esdctl were dead on. It was not my
> intention to get anyone bunged up here, but please redirect flames to the
> appropriate source in the future. I really don't get what the hell this
> acidic response is about. Maybe you guys should
> put on gloves and go into the ring....
>  -M

You don't need esddsp to get mpg123 to work, as mpg123 supports esd natively.
Magic trick with esd, mpg123 with esd support will work even if the esd server 
isn't running, as it'll fall back to the local audio device if no server is found.
Do try this at home. =)

A lot of times we get the same questions over, and over, and over...
It makes us a little edgy sometimes.

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