mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Can't you also do artsd appname (i.e artsd realplayer) for the command to 
start the app.  I may have the artsd command name wrong as I'm going from 
memory.

Alan Jackson wrote:

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