| | ClosureI have finally reached closure on my Quod Libet problem, among others.
Earlier I reported that it would not advance to the next song automatically, and after deleting the .quodlibet folder it was "fixed." A poor fix.
I found out that if I specify the pipeline option in ~/.quodlibet/config to anything but NULL, such as alsasink, alsasink device=hw:0 or Audigy2 (my nick for a sound card), osssink, etc, the problem is reproduced. I was stuck with the option of creating a custom script that would switch between onboard and Audigy2, but that required a restart of QL.
As I was exploring options for different audio players, I noticed the wonderful gstreamer-properties command, which would change the pipeline effective upon the next song. It only recently appeared as it was within the gnome-media package for Arch Linux. A solution, as well as a nifty bmpx in case I desire a dedicated player for my second audio app. bmpx also has a nice preference to set its output device that does not effect the QL pipeline even though both run from gstreamer. bmpx is a bit on the heavy side and requires HAL, but I have yet to find a lightweight utf-8 player that is compatible with my chinese and japanese songs' tags.
Continuing on audio, I finished up my streaming music server based on icecast and mpd. mpd's audio_output is configured to localhost:port, with a mountpoint of mpd.ogg, with proper user and pw that is synched to icecast config. It works nicely save for the 15% load on my CPU when mpd is running.
I was content with my computer setup, then I became unhappy with it. Several corrections later, I am once again content, if not with an inflated ego.
I would like to say that the fixes were trivial, but in actuality, I was probably unhappy with my setup for two months (wow, it's been two months four days since I've been with my A900's). I did not put my full effort into things until two weeks ago, and in that first burst of concentration I set up icecast. Then last night I resolved to fix the dual audio card problem. It was finished around 0930 today.
Moral: If you put your mind to it, you'll get it done. With computers at least. And if you're competent. Yeah...
It seems that I have only resolved two problems, so the beginning line should be, "my QL problem and another one." I finally configured my mouse buttons! no more mouse gestures addons for ffox!
Under
xorg config, I had to change the protocol from "IMPS/" to
"ExplorerPS/2", 8 buttons, ZAxisMapping to "4 5" and ButtonMapping to
"1 2 3 8 9." Tested it under xev, then under ffox, then happiness.
Had to enable "autoscrolling" to get "middle click and mouse mvt to
scroll" working.
So much to do before my sophomore year concludes...
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| | Posted 3/25/2008 1:34 PM
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