Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: mp3s (xmms and mpg123)
From: Will Benton (willb_AT_cs.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 21:38:08 EET
Paul Winkler wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:53:53AM -0600, Will Benton wrote:
>
> > It sounds to me like Paul might have xmms set up to use the "Disk writer
> > plugin" as output, which creates a .wav file very quickly. That's the
> > usual culprit when xmms "plays" files silently and speedily.
>
> Whoops. You're correct. No idea how that happened. Still don't know
> why mpg123 won't play it... never had that problem before.
I've found that xmms is "more compatible" with slightly oddball mp3s
than mpg123, FWIW. The version of mpg123 that comes with RH 7.1 in
particular has some difficulty with VBR-encoded mp3s (which is what I
use for classical and opera so they sound marginally more in tune than
typical mp3s). Some mp3s won't play at all in mpg123, and still others
sound "scratchy" -- all of these seem to work in xmms. (Which is odd
because IIRC xmms' mp3 capabilities are based on mpg123.)
I think xmms defaults to the disk writer output plugin if it doesn't
have a config file or if it can't read it for some reason. (Perhaps
because "disk writer" is first alphabetically?) That really seems like
a poor design choice, as a few hundred megabytes of mp3s can fill a
partition pretty quickly when converted to .wav files...
wb
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