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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas???
From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:53:35 +0200
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>> man 7 juke # juke(7)
>> man 7 playlistfs # playlistfs(7)
>> 
>> I have not yet looked deeply enough into those, but as far as I recall,
>> you create a decoder for each file-type as an external program.
> 
> right.
> 
>> I have no idea how things like fast-forward/backward work, for instance
> 
> they don't, as far as I know.
> 

Too bad, imho. Can one pass notes to APE-programs? Sure you can, but is there noted() etc?

>> (pause, etc). 
> 
> stop/continue reading from the decoder, I think.

Ah, so they read stdout and pass that to /dev/audio then. hm.
> 
>> And I have no idea how I easily create playlists.
>> It's shell magic for mplayer, and GUIs using mplayer
>> may also provide ways - as I read the manpages,
>> I am supposed to write maps myself. :-(
> 
> it is possible to generate (template) maps.
> either when you get the music from cd (readcd does this)
> or using the tags that are present in (e.g.) mp3 files.

As I recall you need a map to actually start up playlistfs/juke*, so how does one start? Can you give an example? :)