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Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 12:57
by markofkane
Thanks, but I started over. I'll have to think twice before I try to update Seamonkey to the latest version,, because it breaks Gxine, (I mean version 1.1.10)
Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 13:53
by markofkane
I just tried the new Pmusic 0.1.2-TR
It did play the songs, and I was able to make a playlist. However, after making the playlist (it took a long time and lots of CPU and memory) it would play, but none of the buttons or options worked. I tried to save the playlist, but it did not. (It did not even work on reboot)
So I looked into where Pmusic was installed, found the playlist there, copied it, and opened the playlist in Gxine. Gxine works, but thanks to Pmusic for creating my playlist for me. I had 3000+ songs, and they were in a lot of different folders and would have taken me forever to add them all manually.
But, at least I got my playlist. (I'll try any more update to Pmusic, but I'm backing up my playlist)
Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 14:06
by zigbert
markofkane
If you made a playlist with 3000 songs, gtkdialog would be like a slow snail. Everytime you push a button that require an update of the playlist, gtkdialog will keep on "forever". (and maybe freeze). I never thought of this kind of use of Pmusic. If Gxine works for you, that absolutely great, but it would be nice to hear if Pmusic works after disable the playlist in the preferences dialog.
Sigmund
Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 14:14
by markofkane
I opened it, and it won't even let me clear the playlist. I suppose I could delete it in the pmusic folder.
(That's what I wanted all along, was a program that imported all songs like Windows Media Player or Winamp does)
Edit, I got it to clear, and it plays one song just fine!!
I got it to play 2 songs. What's the limit?
Thanks!!
Posted: Mon 14 Jul 2008, 04:28
by peppyy
Tested on 3.01 full HD install with a thousand extra libs.
Runs well but high cpu usage +/- 8% just idle
.
Plays streaming files.
plays long files fine. 1 hour tested.
When Loading playlists from other programs, (.pls) which have 2 extra lines
one called playlist
one called Number of entries = (n)
any song selected and pressing play causes a loop.
pressing stop several time quickly stops the loop but no play.
imported m3u playlists seem to work fine
Seems to have a problem with the directory listings. When the playlist is in the same directory with no path it works.
Several crashes on stop, (Gui only)
Progress indicator hangs and jumps on some mp3s
Skip forward causes ffmpeg to max the processor.
also several clicks occasionally starts a second playback at another spot.
Suggestions:
Drag and drop to playlist.
Color themes other than red.
Drag to position in file.
Looks very promising from a XMMS fan.
The main reason I have been using XMMS was for it's minimal cpu usage and it's fast indexing.
I hope this is helpful.
~Pep
Posted: Mon 14 Jul 2008, 07:03
by zigbert
peppyy
Thanks for great feedback
1. pls files are not tested
2. If m3u with directories fails for you, please test more and report back. It works for me.
3. Your notes on progress bar and cpu-usage are mentioned in the main post.
4. drag'n drop and a slider is something we both wish, but gtkdialog is limited. To change the red, just use other *.png in /usr/local/pmusic.
Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 13:26
by zigbert
peppyy
I'm looking right now at the pls-support. I thought that gxine used pls, but that format looked as something else. My playlist file looks like this:
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<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<SETTINGS REPEAT="false" RANDOM="false"/>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE default="y">TNT - Nothern lights</TITLE>
<REF HREF="file:///root/TNT%20-%20Nothern%20lights.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE default="y">Whitesnake - Here I go again</TITLE>
<REF HREF="file:///root/Whitesnake%20-%20Here%20I%20go%20again.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>
Googling the pls format gave me this syntax:
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[playlist]
File1=C:\My Music\Pink Floyd\1979---The_Wall_CD1\1.In_The_Flesh.mp3
Title1=Pink Floyd - In The Flesh
Length1=199
File2=C:\My Music\Pink Floyd\1979---The_Wall_CD1\10.One_Of_My_Turns.mp3
Title2=Pink Floyd - One Of My Turns
Length2=217
NumberOfEntries=2
Version=2
Do you know anything about this?
What program do you use to make pls-file?
What playlist format are common? I have only used m3u.
Sigmund
Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 15:40
by zigbert
markofkane wrote:Edit, I got it to clear, and it plays one song just fine!!
I got it to play 2 songs. What's the limit?
Thanks!!
How many songs Pmusic handles well in the playlist depends on your machinery. My laptop with 1.7 Ghz cpu works ok with 300 songs in the playlist. I see your point (This is how the latest winamp works, since it doesn't index your music), and I'll put it into the wish-list. The todo-list is for issues I know how to fix, and the wish-list is for those I don't have any solution for right now
. But since we humans seems to learn all the time, that can change any minute
Sigmund
Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 16:29
by zigbert
Version 1.3
See main post
Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 21:58
by markofkane
cool, thanks!!
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 00:03
by plinej
Very nice, 0.1.3 is working great on my system.
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 00:21
by plinej
By the way, I can play flac files using ffmpeg & aplay like this:
ffmpeg -i mule080309d1_01_John_The_Revelator.flac -f au - | aplay
I'm using the standard Puppy 4 ffmpeg. Are you not able to?
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 05:43
by zigbert
This is what I got when trying to play a flac. It should be said that I only got ONE album with flac files, so I haven't tested widely. I just accepted that it wouldn't work.
Are there several versions of the flac format?
Do you have any knowledge on this area?
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# ffmpeg -i ./08\ -\ No.\ 30\ in\ E\ major\,\ Op.\ 109\ II.\ Prestissimo.flac -f au - | aplay
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/man --disable-debug --arch=i386 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-liba52 --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-small --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pp
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.44.0
libavformat version: 51.14.0
built on Oct 23 2007 22:05:00, gcc: 4.2.2
./08 - No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 II. Prestissimo.flac: Unknown format
aplay: playback:2018: read error
#
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 09:26
by tempestuous
zigbert, I did this -
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ffmpeg -i /mnt/sdb1/test.flac -f au - | aplay
and it worked fine ... although there was a 5 second wait before the track started.
I guess that's the cost of using such a large application as ffmpeg.
Using the flac application (in Puppy4.1alpha) works much better -
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flac -d /mnt/sdb1/test.flac -c | aplay
Playback is instant.
Then I tried Pmusic 0.1.3. At first launch it went into some form of loop and I had to restart X.
The second time it launched OK. When I tried to load the same flac file as before, the load dialogue stayed onscreen and no sound. In the terminal I could see various error messages.
Then ffmpeg or aplay were messed up. The same ffmpeg command that I could run earlier no longer worked, giving this error message
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Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Killed
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 12:44
by plinej
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flac -d /mnt/sdb1/test.flac -c | aplay
That works for me too. I didn't have any delay on my system with ffmpeg though. I also have some flac files that won't play in audacious so I'm guessing maybe it's what is used to encode them. I'm always able to decode them with flac though so tempestuous' soultion should work in all cases.
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 14:02
by plinej
Could you also add the shorten format (.shn)? ffmpeg supports that format and it works from the cli for me.
FLAC support, please
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 14:13
by dogone
Zigbert, I have 54GB of FLAC files awaiting Pmusic. Please pursue FLAC compatibility. Thanks!
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 14:34
by tempestuous
plinej wrote:I didn't have any delay on my system with ffmpeg
My Puppy computer is a Pentium2-350. Modern computers don't reveal such differences.
Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 15:05
by zigbert
Ok guys, I just let Pmusic accept *.shn/*.flac/*.ape. lets see what happens
I do intend to use ffmpeg for all formats, since this gives a VERY simple code. Pmusic use ffmpeg both for songinfo, and playback. Using other libs and cli-players will make it much more complex.
Pmusic may not suit everyone, but hopefully many puppy-users get satisfied, and doesn't need to install a bigger player. After all, Pmusic is a simple bash-script of 37 kb, and will never compete with the 'big guys' such as amarok.
Sigmund
Posted: Thu 17 Jul 2008, 01:07
by plinej
Good, looking forward to 0.1.4