Zinf command line

ccrawford at acb.org ccrawford at acb.org
Tue Sep 24 16:40:05 EDT 2002


	Well, perhaps I will find a copy of freeamp and see if I can do 
it that way.

-- charlie.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> Ok, I'll give my feedback on zinf. I don't know about any others, but this
> is my experience with zinf and debian.to run zinf with command line just
> do 'zinf -ui zinfcmd' or 'zinf -ui ncurses'
> 
> The thing is this. if you can even get it going, there is no sound.
> apparrently zinf doesn't read the config file, and resets the default
> volume to 0 so that  it plays, but you don't hear anything. I'm not sure
> how to fix this or change it. I'm tempted to compile zinf from source if
> that's even possible, and see if I can get it to do  anything for me. at
> this point, I call zinf useable, but only if you use a gui.
> 
> 
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> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 ccrawford at acb.org wrote:
> 
> > Still get the same error message about no plugin at....
> >
> > -- charlie On Tue, 24 Sep
> > 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >
> > > Well we have two choices as I see it.
> > > zinf -ui zcmd file1 file2 ...
> > > or
> > > zinf -ui ncurses file1 file2 ...
> > >
> > > The ncurses choice allows you to see tag information such as artist,
> > > title, genre, track number, year, etc.  The zinfcmd option is a
> > > stripped down command environment kinda like trplayer but lacks the
> > > info display but allows for movement through the track at ten seconds
> > > intervals where ncurses does not have this option for some reason.
> > >
> > > BTW, does anyone know how to play CD's with zinf?  I asked here and on
> > > another list but have no answers yet.  Is it really not possible
> > > dispite the website's claims?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:02:30PM -0400, ccrawford at acb.org wrote:
> > > > 	I have been trying to get zinf to run and I keep getting this
> > > > message about how there is no ui in the plugins library to match.  When I
> > > > run the help it does not tell me anything constructive except the command
> > > > line sample.  What is the ui file and which one should be used under what
> > > > circumstances?  This is really annoying since documentation is the bible
> > > > of Linux and we get none.
> > > >
> > > > -- charlie Crawford.
> > > >
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