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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:12:17 -0400
From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
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Subject: [9fans] Audio and other questions
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I've been playing around a bit with playing music nicely under
Plan 9, but I've run into a few problems.
First, while trying to play music over drawterm from home, the
audio output is very choppy and slow--I'm pretty sure this has
to do with the fact that streaming PCM data over a cable
connection is not a good idea. If I set up a cpu server here at home
that boots from that remote filesystem, I should be able to drawterm
to that and play music from there to avoid the streaming problems,
right?

madplay works fine for playing stuff when I'm on the LAN with
my CPU server, but I'd rather use 'juke' for the playlist and
music sorting capabilities. However, the map files are tedious, to
say the least, so I'd like to use Axel Belinfante's perl scripts to
generate the maps... but the perl installation seems to expect
a kfs filesystem. Can someone tell me how to install it on fossil?

Lastly, is anyone working on sound drivers for a Thinkpad T22? I'm
using one as a terminal, and besides the lack of audio capabilities
everything works great. I'm under the impression that the T22 is
one of the more compatible and widely used laptops, so I thought
maybe somebody would be trying to make a driver for it.

Thanks


John