Multi Media Programs

[Steve Holmes]

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.
> >
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