emms is a wrapper -- and emacspeak-emms speech-enables it.
Both emms and C-e ; have their place; emms is nice if you want to
find a particular set of tracks without having to remember where
in the filesystem it is.
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Steve> Hey, what more can you tell us about emms? Is it a
Steve> wrapper to launch mplayer or is it a complete player
Steve> unto itself? Mplayer is so powerful natively because
Steve> it can play nearly any media you throw at it.
Steve>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Tim Cross
>> [mailto:tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, August 26,
>> 2007 4:49 AM To: Kalyan Mukherjea Cc: Emacspeak
>> MailingList Subject: Re:Playing music and a tailpiece
>>
>>
>> Kalyan,
>>
>> just a couple of tips.
>>
>> firstly, rebooting should always be the absolutely last
>> resort. A reboot is like using a bazooka to hunt rabbits.
>>
>> Second, when you use C-e ; you are put into a special
>> mplayer interactive buffer, wehre you can do things like
>> change volume, skip forward, skip back, speedup, slow
>> down, load another media resource and many other
>> things. Perhaps, the most important character for you is
>> q. This will quit the mode and stop mplayer.
>>
>> I do find there is a lot of spoken text initially -
>> diagnostic output from mplayer. I suspect I can stop this
>> by passing a 'quiet switch to mplayer, but I've not
>> bothered to look into it. To be honest, I use emms rather
>> than the emacspeak media stuff. This is for no other
>> reason than I started using emms first and because I
>> prefer to try an use other packages to do things like this
>> rather than putting absolutely everything into emacspeak -
>> thats just a personal preference. It also means that on
>> occasion, when emacspeak is causing me problems, I can
>> switch to something else, like speech-dispatcher with
>> minimal loss of functionality.
>>
>> The noise you are hearing when you first start playing a
>> bit of media is possibly the result of interaction between
>> emacspeak speech, the media content and how your ALSA
>> soundcard is configured. I still find the ALSA stuff less
>> than intuitive - only a few weeks ago, I figured out the
>> reason my multi-channel soundcard wasn't working correctly
>> was because only the last of the three channels it
>> provided actually supported multiple sound sources - once
>> I configured my .asoundrc file to use the 3rd channel
>> rather than the first, everything has worked fine.
>>
>> Finally, I wonder why you are running X if your totally
>> blind? In such a situation, you really using resources for
>> no gain. performance would probably improve if you aren't
>> running an X server. Try playing around in the console and
>> if yo find it works well, consider not running X (there
>> are several ways of doing this - probably the easiest is
>> booting into a non-X runlevel. Not sure which runlevel
>> that would be with fedora these days.
>>
>> Oh, and I also think Raman has done a lot of work on the
>> media stuff since version 25. An upgrade may improve
>> things for you.
>>
>> Tim Kalyan Mukherjea writes:
>> >
>> > I had sent the following in response to the discussion
>> between Steve > and Raman > as a "Reply to all" from a VM
>> buffer containing Raman's letter. It > bounced back from
>> Raman's ISP saying that my letter was spam! This is > just
>> to notify Raman since I could not go to the recommended
>> site to > correct their impression about my letter.
>> >
>> > My original letter follows > and the bounceing message
>> after my letter and a row of *'s.
>> >
>> > Hi List, > T. V. Raman writes:
>> >
>> > > I suggest you investigate things before assuming
>> things. C-e; on > > a dired-line plays the file under
>> point.
>> >
>> > I have never been able to use the `C-e ;' or `C-e :'
>> keychords > successfully! > I have realplay and mplayer
>> installed. But doing either of these > keychords does not
>> have the desired effect.
>> >
>> > I play mp3 files by opening a terminal (M-x term) >
>> cd-ing to the directory where I keep my music files
>> (~/music/) > then typing mplayer foo.mp3 > then C-e d q
>> and then press RET.
>> >
>> > The mp3 files play and all the key commands of mplayer
>> can be used.
>> >
>> > If I do not do `C-e d q' before pressing RET there is a
>> lot of > gurgling noises for a few seconds and then
>> silence. The `term' buffer > is filled with mplayer
>> announcements about how it was compiled etc.
>> >
>> > I tried `C-e ;' on a dired buffer showing the mp3 files
>> in ~/music/ > and as soon as I typed the keychord `C-e ;'
>> there was a very loud > rangling (cross between rattling
>> and ringing) noise and then the > music started
>> playing. The quality is much better than on the terminal >
>> but the rangling does not stop. Emacspeak stops responding
>> and if I > quit X using Alt+Ctrl+Backspace thenthe music
>> stops and I can hear the > mplayer announcements going
>> on. Rebooting is the only way to stop > this.
>> >
>> > What is going on?
>> >
>> > My system is running FC 3 with Emacs -21 and
>> Emacspeak-25.0 revision > 4289 4293.
>> >
>> > Any help will be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers. > Kalyan
>> > ******************************************************************
>> >
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>> raman@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: steve@xxxxxxxxxxx, >
>> emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Playing Music from
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>> >
>> > Hi List, > T. V. Raman writes:
>> >
>> > > I suggest you investigate things before assuming
>> things. C-e; on > > a dired-line plays the file under
>> point.
>> >
>> > I have never been able to use the `C-e ;' or `C-e :'
>> keychords > successfully! > I have realplay and mplayer
>> installed. But doing either of these > keychords does not
>> have the desired effect.
>> >
>> > ----- Message truncated -----
>> >
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>> --
>> Tim Cross tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> There are two types of people in IT - those who do not
>> manage what they understand and those who do not
>> understand what they manage.
>>
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