On 12/17/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 01:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 12/16/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I presume that your going to > > > make your tunes available in .ogg format as well in the future. I had to > > > play them using Mplayer on FC2, and it was using 100% cpu, but didn't > > > seem to affect the sound quality. Really nice work. Thanks. Nigel. > > > > No such problems with my favorite day to day player Aqualung. Check it > > out if you haven't already. > > > > http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > Hi Mark. This is the second time that you've prompted me to try Aqualung. I > think you must have some vested interest in it (only joking). Thanks for the > link this time. I think I put it off last time, not wishing to Google and get > page after page of skindiving equipment or links to Jethro Tull. Anyway I > DL'd the tar.gz, then read the compile info. Darn! It needs gtk+2.0 , and FC2 > only has gtk+-1.2.10-29.1.1. Same problem here as with Sineshaper and Om. > Back to FC2 I looked around in synaptic and saw the xmms mp3 plugin was > there, tried it and it worked. A bit strange, because the first time I tried > to install this it would not work. Perhaps libmad was missing at the time. So > I can play mp3's without frying the cpu with Mplayer, but it would obviously > be better if more up to date files like gtk+ 2.0 were available for Fedora. > Perhaps I'll try Aqualung on Debian, as there are Deb packages available for > it. Not sure which way to go getting it installed on Gentoo (your favorite). I run it on all my home Gentoo machines. (3 as of today.) I also run it on a Planet box running FC2, but that may be an older version. I could check that. I haven't had many problems with Gentoo. The only thing there has been using an occasional ~x86 library to make the Aqualung developers happy. > > BTW. Hows it going with the VSTi's with Savihost and Wine? I've just DL'd > MrRay73, a Rhodes piano that I saw a link to on the list, and that works ok > with Savihost, but still terrible latency problems from the Evolution MK-225C > usb midi keyboard. A bit like playing a pipe organ. Press the key, and then > sit back and wait for the sound. As of late I'm pretty much out of the music area. We're in the middle of a bunch of house remodeling things - new windows, floors, redoing a laundry room and turning it into a computer game room. I haven't touched savihost in quite awhile unfortunately. It did have some latency issues, that's for sure. The main problem there (I think) is that the Wine Jack driver is pretty much kaput. It seems that no one wants to maintain it and it doesn't work with the new versions of Jack. Bummer! I tried to drum up some interest in supporting it on the Jack developers list but couldn't get a response. Disappointing as we're all Jack users and having great Jack support in Wine would be wonderful in so many ways. I'm sure it will happen some day...just not sure which one. ;-) I have not tried the new xfst stuff as it wouldn't build on my AMD64 machine and it seemed that no xfst developer had an AMD64 machine to debug the issues. Is that any different now? > > All the best. Nigel. > And to you! Cheers, Mark
