more on attaching audio/mpeg files

[Jim Wantz]

Hi Chuck,
Its way cool that 4.21 solved the problem.  Now that I think of it I have
successfully transmitted and received mp3 files to/from a friend using a
WINDOWS system.  Yes, I am using 4.21.

     Jim


On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Janina -
> 
> I think you missed my shriek of success... upgrading my Pine from 4.10 to
> 4.21 solved the problem for me. The files are now coming back to me
> identified as  they should be.
> I will include my .mailcap file below. It began its life as a copy of
> Kirk's "mailcapstuff.zip" on the speakup goodies directory, but I have
> modified it some. In particular I created a script called 'getstream'
> which accepts a .pls or a .m3u file, extracts from it the first URL found
> there, and passes that URL along to Matt Campbell's 'trplayer'
> program. The script uses 'sed' to do the dirty work and makes trplayer
> work a lot more like freeamp, which I never could get working on this
> system...
> 
> Any way, here is my .mailcap file:
> --------------
> audio/x-wav; aplay %s
> audio/basic; aplay %s
> audio/x-pn-realaudio; trplayer %s
> audio/mpeg; mpg123 %s 
> audio/mpegurl; getstream %s
> audio/x-mpegurl; getstream %s
> audio/scpls; getstream %s
> audio/x-scpls; getstream %s
> -----------------
> Hope that helps.
> Chuck.
> 
>  On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Charles:
> > 
> > Thanks for the details about mailcap. Would you mind sharing yours--or at
> > least the relevant sections? I'm wondering about the appropriate syntax.
> > 
> > As I said yesterday, I have mailed myself both a .wav and a .mp3 file via
> > a couple of my email accounts. Mine have arrived back properly
> > identified--when I select view in Pine 4.21, they file type is correctly
> > identified.
> > 
> > So, I'm at a loss of what to suggest for you and why yours aren't coming
> > back properly tagged.
> 
> 
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