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Pizzasgood · Last edited by Pizzasgood on Sat 06 Sep 2008, 19:01; edited 3 times in total

audacious-1.3.2.pet
audacious_plugins-1.3.5.pet

You'll also want most of these dependencies:
libesd-0.2.36.pet
libidn-1.5.pet
libmcs-0.7.1.pet
libmowgli-0.6.1.pet
SDL-1.2.13.pet

The SDL probably isn't needed unless you want the visualizations. You don't need the libesd package - that's just an alternative to Alsa.

<UNRESOLVED DEPS: libwavpack and libartsc>
It will still work, other than maybe some of the special plugins or options. I think Arts is just another alternative to Alsa. Not sure what libwavpack does. I can play .wav files fine without it.

Audacious is a media player which was forked from Beep, which was based on XMMS. There is another package of this on the forum (I think from Dougal), but that one's amidi-plug plugin was broken and I couldn't fix it nor could I replace it successfully, so I found an rpm which did work, and made a .pet out of it. I also added some skins from XMMS and preconfigured the amidi-plug plugin to work with the timidity packaged I uploaded here.

The plugins package contains a big pile of plugins. I refuse to type them all out, sorry. The most important (IMHO) is Amidi-plug, which lets it run MIDI files through Alsa. That alone isn't enough to get you midi audio, but if you install the Timidity package I linked above (or fluidsynth and co.) you can set up a softsynth server that makes an Alsa port for MIDI (if you have a sound card that supports MIDI, you can manually load a sound font onto that and configure Amidi-plug to use it instead - this would be much easier on the CPU. Search the forum for directions). Once that's working you can play MIDI files through Audacity like they're normal audio files. Also included are 'PSF Module Decoder' and 'Game Console Music Decoder', which between them covers PSF, MINIPSF, AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, and VGZ.

disciple · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 01:10 Post subject:

You might want to share this as well:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 01:28 Post subject:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 22:56 Post subject:

Oh, I forgot about those. Sorry. When I made this package I was working on the next Pizzapup (not working hard, just frivolous superficial stuff for now, until 4.1 comes out. Then I'll start in on the core stuff. Otherwise I'd have to replicate too much work). For that, I had stuck them in separate packages. Then I forgot when I made this package, so I only used the Audacious part.

Thanks. I'll edit the first post to make sure people scroll down and grab that too.

harryc · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 11

Lots of dependancies missing on Pup 4.0 for the plugins package.
.pls doesn't work either, .e.g. shoutcast. Bummer Sad

Can anyone recommend a low resource player for 4.0 that plays shoutcast?
Gxine is a pig and crashes on this distro.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 06 Sep 2008, 18:27 Post subject:

I didn't realize it depended on those too.

Normally I install things on a clean install in order to avoid situations like this. I was lazy this time though Embarassed

Give me a minute here and I'll throw them together.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 06 Sep 2008, 18:58 Post subject:

Okay, I added a bunch of the dependencies in the first post. That should cover everything except the libwavpack and libartsc dependencies, which I don't think matter. I'm missing those on my end and it works fine. I'm not sure exactly what libwavpack is needed for. Most people won't be needing the libartsc library, since you normally use Alsa as the output.

Has anybody else noticed that if you close it while a pile of files are in the playlist window, it doesn't save it properly? It adds a bunch of stuff to the end of each filename.

To me, this package is really a temporary solution. I eventually intend to compile the latest version from scratch, but that's pretty low on my to-do list and I wanted something now to handle midi without having to use a separate app from my normal media files. When I tried compiling it before I'd get it compiled fine, but whenever I tried running it I'd get segfaults. So I grabbed this one.

I recommend using Dougal's copy unless you need MIDI.

harryc · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 11

Pizzasgood , thank-you.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 06 Sep 2008, 21:11 Post subject:

verycd8 · Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Posts: 34

Audacious
From the unusual, there is no new version?

Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 12 Dec 2008, 13:30 Post subject:

I've been working on it on and off when I had nothing better to do. So far I've gotten 1.5.1 to compile, and it mostly works too. I've had to do a workaround to let you click on files to play them though. And streaming audio is broken. I'm going to play with it some more later today to see if I can finish it up, because I want to have it ready so I can stick it on my sister's computer while I'm visiting for Christmas (fly up there tomorrow morning).

disciple · Posted: Fri 12 Dec 2008, 17:09 Post subject:

I've compiled a 1.5.1 that seems to work perfectly except it crashes when you use the gui to change a skin - and I can't remember, but a couple of the rarer input plugins may not be enabled, and only the fluidsynth and alsa backends to Amidi-Plug are enabled.

I can package it if anyone really wants it, but I'm afraid I have to recommend XMMS instead, as even playing MP3 on my 900Mhz Celeron, audacious has a problem like the fluidsynth Amidi-Plug backend does with xmms - i.e. every few minutes there's a glitch in the playback because a buffer is empty or something for some reason. I don't understand it, as it doesn't use very high CPU, and in the xmms case it will play MIDI using fluidsynth through the alsa backend perfectly.... anyway, rant over Sad

Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 12 Dec 2008, 20:52 Post subject:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 12 Dec 2008, 22:10 Post subject:

Well, since I already had everything uploaded when I read this, and I won't have time to update anything again until tomorrow evening at the earliest (am traveling all morning), I decided to go ahead and post it. You can try it and see if you notice the same glitch you mentioned. If you have any ideas for improving it, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I'm going to tar up all the build directories I created so I can bring them with me in my laptop to facilitate that. (I'm going to be out of state for a month starting tomorrow.)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=257232#257232

disciple · Posted: Sat 13 Dec 2008, 01:08 Post subject:

Sorry, I think I was confused. I originally had that segfault bug but I think it was fixed by a patch for some other bug, not specifically for it. Maybe this one