I found the controls you mentioned and they all seem to work pretty good except the B key. When I press B it goes back to the beginning of the current track but will not go back to the previous file; I had hoped for that. Perhaps a bug. The rewind and fast forward work great. On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Thomas Stivers wrote: > You can gett some of the functionality you want from mpg123. Using the > --control command line option lets you use f to go forward, b to go back, > "," to rewind, "." to fastforward, q to quit, s to stop, and p to pause. > It also has a --shuffle and --random option. If you read the mpg123 man > page you can see that it does a lot. For all your other stuff you will > need to check out alsa. I am still trying to get alsa working here, so I > can't help you too much with it. Good luck. > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > I just set up a linux box and got the basic sound support working with my > > SB AWE32 sound card. At least I can play wav and mp3 files with play and > > mpg123. My question is how can I get some of the functionality I have > > with programs like winamp where one can skip around within a file and skip > > back and forth between files being played? I do realize these are > > command-line programs but I had hoped for a bit more control while the > > program is running. I haven't looked at amp or freeamp yet; perhaps they > > offer this? Also, what are some good mixer programs out there? > > Surprisingly, I did not see the snd-utilities with slackware 8.0 and none > > of the programs offered with basic slackware seemed to include a > > mixer/volume control for the sound card. I have seen such things in the > > past. Maybe I need to go out and find some separate utilities and install > > them? > > > > Thanks for any ideas. I'm running linux from Slackware 8.0 with 2.4.9 > > kernel. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
