From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 23:20:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A93B16A47C for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343A743D48 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:20:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5NNK6vv020289; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k5NNK62s020280; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:20:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20060623232001.GA20134@thought.org> References: <20060621221720.GA55540@thought.org> <20060621190527.J16398@tripel.monochrome.org> <20060622094604.GC89614@thought.org> <20060622211054.J3990@tripel.monochrome.org> <20060623175021.GB18163@thought.org> <449C371C.9090204@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <449C371C.9090204@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:20:09 -0000 On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:46:52AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Another thing I've been wondering about is xmms-faad2 > > which is mp4 or a High Effiency decoder of "aac"(?) > > streams that only require 24kpbs to yeild fairly high > > fidelity sound. Does anybody know anything about how > > xmms-faad2 works with good ol' xmms?? (I'm completely > > new to most of this--streaming sites. But then just got > > new speakers w/bass boombox!) So any tips will be very > > welcome. > > > > gary > The faad2 item should just be a plugin for xmms. It's kind of > convoluted how they compile stuff with the faad2 lib, but basically-in > Linux at least-it downloads the complete faad2 source, compiles it > first, then compiles the plugin from a different branch from the main > source in the source tree. I don't quite understand. Many weeks ago sky.fm had an AAC stream for its "Mostly Classical" stream and I tried xxmms-faad to play the sky.fm AAC dtream. ZIP. After a fewhours I kicked the cat and hit the wall and gave up. I've looked around for other HE encoding with AAC, no-joy. ... > I was doing a bit of reading too (trying to see if I can just change > the source a bit to get ID3/iTunes tags to be read in xmms), and it > turns out that iTunes uses MP4 format with AAC encoding, as opposed to > AAC which uses MP2 encoding as a base. I know virtually Zero about this other than the theory; unfortunately, here theory is useless. I poked around at web sites and FAQ's:: nothing gave me any *practical*] advise. xmms is beyond Neat, but exactly how does xmms-faad2 PLUGIN??? I grep's the /work/* xmms code for pluggin, nothing. <&c ** 2> [[ Interesting tidbit about Apple, BTW.] > Doesn't really matter all that much I suppose, but I was just > looking through the source trying to figure stuff out and the original > author's nomenclature is just a bit confusing. > -Garrett Good to know I'm not the only one. I realize we/FBSD have a rather small bunch, but there are some brilliant people on-list. Maybe some thoughtful person can clue me in.... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix