On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 11:55PM +0100, nigel henry spake thus: > Hi James. Thanks for putting up the .oggs. The machine I collect email on is > FC1. I've got MPlayer on that ,but when i'm listening to Internet radio I > can't use anything else. The other machine has 5 hard drive caddies. The only > only one that plays MP3's is Debian 3.0r2 upgraded to testing (sarge) with a > player called GQmpeg, and that works ok. Just a bit of a nuisance having to > shuffle the caddies to find the right one to play the MP3's. .oggs are > easier, anything on Linux plays them. I'm trying to get going with a tracker > (soundtracker). I've been using Making Waves, a step sequencer on Windows, > and have loads of royalty free .wav samples to use with it. The only problem > with the tracker is getting instant previews of the .wav sounds. You have to > load em first and then listen. Doh. If you know of a way to preview .wavs > without having to open a player for each one or load them into the tracker, > I'm all ears. Nigel. > I don't use soundtracker, so I can't be much help there, but cheesetracker lets you play sounds in the open dialog box as if they were loaded. Maybe you should have a look at it? James > > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 8:38 pm, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 16 May, 2005 at 08:39PM +0100, nigel henry spake thus: > > > Hi James. Would you consider making the tracks available in .ogg for us > > > poor linux folks. Nigel. > > > > Haha. I'm also a linux user, if you hadn't guessed. I use "inferior" > > MP3's for the poor *Windows* folks. > > > > > I'm on Slackware 10.0 at the mo and havn't anything to play MP3's > > > > As someone has already suggested, have you tried mplayer? XMMS? > > > > But, since I now have quite a bit of spare space on my server, I've > > uploaded an ogg for every mp3. Just swap the mp3 part to ogg and you > > should be fine. > > > > Okay, make that uploading. I thought the conversion would be done by > > the time I sent this, but it's still going. They'll be there in a > > moment. > > > > > On Monday 16 May 2005 14:42, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > A track I put together over the weekend. The levels aren't quite > > > > right and it sounds a little muddy, but I got fed up with it and > > > > decided to leave it as it is. > > > > > > > > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/05/more-music.html > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
