zinf doesn't play!

zinf doesn't play!

[Buddy Brannan]

Hi y'all,

Wonder if anyone's using zinf-2.2.4?

Mine isn't playing. That's a real shame, because it has some nice new
navigation key additions in the command line interface! I just
installed it (Debian unstable), and type
zinf <filename>
where the filename is either an MP3 stream or a local MP3, ogg, or
whatever, and the file neither plays nor does it show as playing (as
if it's not even loading the file). But it squawks if it can't find
the file. Very odd behavior, that. Anyone know if something needs to
be changed in .zinf/preferences from earlier versions like 2.2.0 (I
think was the one I was using previously)? I already changed the UI to
cmdline.ui so it isn't that...

Thanks!
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3    | But I will lay my burden 
Email: davros@ycardz.com   | in the cradle of your grace,
ICQ: 36621210              | And the shining beaches of your love,
http://www.ycardz.com      | and the sea of your embrace.--Dave Carter

Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Kirk Reiser]

Hey Buddy:  I think you've missed on this one we had this discussion a
couple of times.  There's a setting in your .zinf/preferences file
called softmix which you need to set to false and everything should be
cool.  I use it a lot and it does a nice job, so does alsaplayer,
mplayer and Jamie and Mick have another one they're working called
xmms-console which is very nice.  I don't think it's ready for prime
time though.

  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Buddy Brannan]

Nope--I had that set to false. I remember that discussion. 

Back to the drawing board...
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3    | But I will lay my burden 
Email: davros@ycardz.com   | in the cradle of your grace,
ICQ: 36621210              | And the shining beaches of your love,
http://www.ycardz.com      | and the sea of your embrace.--Dave Carter

Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Kirk Reiser]

Well, that's the one I'm using and it works just fine nothing needed
to be changed other than what we've spoken of.

  me

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 01/21/04 11:32 PM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Hi y'all,
> 
> Wonder if anyone's using zinf-2.2.4?
> 
> Mine isn't playing. That's a real shame, because it has some nice new
> navigation key additions in the command line interface! I just
> installed it (Debian unstable), and type
> zinf <filename>
> where the filename is either an MP3 stream or a local MP3, ogg, or
> whatever, and the file neither plays nor does it show as playing (as
> if it's not even loading the file). But it squawks if it can't find
> the file. Very odd behavior, that. Anyone know if something needs to
> be changed in .zinf/preferences from earlier versions like 2.2.0 (I
> think was the one I was using previously)? I already changed the UI to
> cmdline.ui so it isn't that...

You need to set SoftMixer to false and PlayImmediately to true. This
isn't specifically related to your problem, but you may want to set
AllowMultipleInstances to true if you have several zinfs in several
terminals and you don't want them all loaded to the first one you start.

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Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Deedra Waters]

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Make sure that 'PlayImmediately: true' is set, also, make sure that  'SoftMixer: false' is also set 
Let me know if this helps.

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:32:02 -0500
> From: Buddy Brannan <davros@ycardz.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: zinf doesn't play!
> 
> Hi y'all,
> 
> Wonder if anyone's using zinf-2.2.4?
> 
> Mine isn't playing. That's a real shame, because it has some nice new
> navigation key additions in the command line interface! I just
> installed it (Debian unstable), and type
> zinf <filename>
> where the filename is either an MP3 stream or a local MP3, ogg, or
> whatever, and the file neither plays nor does it show as playing (as
> if it's not even loading the file). But it squawks if it can't find
> the file. Very odd behavior, that. Anyone know if something needs to
> be changed in .zinf/preferences from earlier versions like 2.2.0 (I
> think was the one I was using previously)? I already changed the UI to
> cmdline.ui so it isn't that...
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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Re: zinf doesn't play!

[Deedra Waters]

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I'd be interested to see what comes of xmms-console. From everything I've heard, xmms itself is supposed to be pretty good, though I wonder if the console version of it will be good.


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:26 -0500
> From: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: zinf doesn't play!
> 
> Hey Buddy:  I think you've missed on this one we had this discussion a
> couple of times.  There's a setting in your .zinf/preferences file
> called softmix which you need to set to false and everything should be
> cool.  I use it a lot and it does a nice job, so does alsaplayer,
> mplayer and Jamie and Mick have another one they're working called
> xmms-console which is very nice.  I don't think it's ready for prime
> time though.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> 

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