From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 12:49:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 CE1D316A4CF for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-204-157-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.204.157.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A693043F75 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:49:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billschoolcraft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B100157A6; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:52:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:52:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@bsd.billschoolcraft.com To: Ray Seals In-Reply-To: <1070653004.42128.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20031205134446.N32149@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> References: <1070653004.42128.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> System-ID: [en] (I; FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0 x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:49:35 -0000 At Fri, 5 Dec 2003 it looks like Ray Seals composed: > xmms will only play one MP3 and then will not play another one. The new > song will display the title but won't play. If I click the play button > it just blinks the display and show 00:00. This is the case with > selected mp3's from a directory or a play list. The only way to play > another mp3 is to exit out of X and restart X. > > I believe this may be a problem with KDE but don't know what additional > information one would need to start diagnosing the problem. > I recall playing my mp3's from command line, I had a directory full of mp3's, I took all the filenames and mput them in a file called "playlist.lst" in the directory then ran the following script I called "go" --------------snip---------------- #!/bin/sh # mpg123 -v -v -Z -@ playlist.lst --------------snip---------------- If I remember correctly I used one of the standard sound control gui's to control the volume. It's been a while. I also used the "curl" program too, did a stupid little script that killed artsd then went on to play the music in the current directory. Now, artsd was a problem for me at the time I was using this script so it was the only thing that worked for me, YMMV. :) --------------snip---------------- #!/bin/sh # echo echo "Killing the damm \"artsd\" program first ....." echo for i in `ps -uwax|grep artsd|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -9 $i; done wait echo "Well, that's done, now lets start up the music for you ....." echo /usr/local/bin/curl -s $1 | /usr/local/bin/mpg123 - --------------snip----------------