More Pytone
I'm not sure having pytone running through xmms is such a good idea.
Firstly, there seems to be some coordination problems between what Pytone says it is playing, and the sound coming out of the speakers. I don't know that this is strictly a problem with xmms/pytone, and not just pytone itself, but I suspect that it may be the cause.
The other thing is that today, whilst listening to music on my dad's windows box, I came the the conclusion again that computer speakers are just too small for music. So I thought... wouldn't it be cool if I could work at this computer, but have the music playing out of my Linux box. And then thought... wait, I can do that!
I got the linux box running sshd, and then logged in from the windows box using Putty. Unfortunately, to get pytone running it needed X (due to xmms), which required me running an Xserver on the Windows box (I found a program called XLitePro which served the purpose well). Overall, it was more work than it was worth. A better solution would've been to run the Xserver on the linux box, with xmms working on that, but I couldn't figure out how to get that going quickly.
Of course, with pytones internal player, or mpg321, I wouldn't have needed X (and won't need it for any other things I ssh to do), and the whole process would be quicker and easier. It might also fix the coordination problems.
[EDIT]
I've now gotten pytone to work without xmms, using its internal mad based player. The problem before was that I didn't have the pymad library installed - simply downloading and installing this solved the problem.
In doing this I've fixed the problems of pytone saying its playing one thing when actually something else is playing, and can also run it purely in a terminal (no X required). I can also utilise the cool crossfading effect (although on the default length of 6 seconds to crossfade between songs it just sounded like a mess)
Firstly, there seems to be some coordination problems between what Pytone says it is playing, and the sound coming out of the speakers. I don't know that this is strictly a problem with xmms/pytone, and not just pytone itself, but I suspect that it may be the cause.
The other thing is that today, whilst listening to music on my dad's windows box, I came the the conclusion again that computer speakers are just too small for music. So I thought... wouldn't it be cool if I could work at this computer, but have the music playing out of my Linux box. And then thought... wait, I can do that!
I got the linux box running sshd, and then logged in from the windows box using Putty. Unfortunately, to get pytone running it needed X (due to xmms), which required me running an Xserver on the Windows box (I found a program called XLitePro which served the purpose well). Overall, it was more work than it was worth. A better solution would've been to run the Xserver on the linux box, with xmms working on that, but I couldn't figure out how to get that going quickly.
Of course, with pytones internal player, or mpg321, I wouldn't have needed X (and won't need it for any other things I ssh to do), and the whole process would be quicker and easier. It might also fix the coordination problems.
[EDIT]
I've now gotten pytone to work without xmms, using its internal mad based player. The problem before was that I didn't have the pymad library installed - simply downloading and installing this solved the problem.
In doing this I've fixed the problems of pytone saying its playing one thing when actually something else is playing, and can also run it purely in a terminal (no X required). I can also utilise the cool crossfading effect (although on the default length of 6 seconds to crossfade between songs it just sounded like a mess)
posted by shfbbm at 12:03 PM
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