mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

[Alan Jackson]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:49 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> Alan Jackson wrote:
> > I'm still not sure what the real solution is - maybe I shold just kill the
> > artsd daemon.  Any knowledge out there?
> 
> kill KDE, use a window manager that doesn't suck.

I found all the answers. So for future reference :

http://multimedia.kde.org/arts-faq.php
and 
http://www.arts-project.org/

is very helpful.

There is a nice side to using artsd. It automagically mixes all it's inputs,
so if everyone is using it, no programs get hung up or crash waiting on the
dsp. For me that is actually rather nice. I had written a buggy hack that
turned off my mp3 player whenever I got announcable e-mail, had a voice
synthesis program read me the subject line and from line, and then turn my
mp3 player back on. This way I can just let'em mix.

Here are my personal notes for posterity - this is getting close to
being an SxS...

artsd will not let go of the /dev/dsp device. This is why play, gramofile,
mpg123, and flite will not work. There are several solutions :

- disable artsd

- % artsshell suspend

- % artsdsp mpg123 myfile.mp3

- % artsplay myfile.wav

Other tools available are :

artsshell suspend
artsshell terminate
artsshell status
artscontrol

In theory, it is supposed to auto-suspend after 5 seconds of idle time, but
I haven't seen this happen.

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