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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas???
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:32:04 +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.

> (pause, etc). 

stop/continue reading from the decoder, I think.

> 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.


> Supposed those things are easily done, 'porting mplayer'
> becomes 'port the codecs, create a decoder for each of those'.
> At least for the audio-part. But imho it works for video, too.
> 
> 
> Speaking of those manpages, what is audio(7)? I don't have that manpage.

since audio(7) is not there, intro(7) makes me guess that will be about
'proprietary data that is not distributed outside Bell Laboratories'.


Axel.