Re: [9fans] playing music (was RSA)

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

> maybe also sape's playlist server could be used
> (although there are some differences in the
>  operations allowed on the playlist, I think)
> such that essentially (some version of) acme Juke
> would just be an alternative to sape's juke gui?

doing that is possible, but it would be a different program.

the one neat thing about ajuke (and acd before it) is that
the acme buffer *is* the playlist.  when it's time to 
move to the next song, ajuke just looks at the window
text to figure out what was playing and what to play
next.

so editing the playlist is very familiar -- it's no different
from editing text files.

> On the sun I have named pipe's /tmp/dev/audio and /tmp/dev/volume
> and two small programs, one to read audio bytes from /tmp/dev/audio
> and shuttle them to the real sun audio device, and another one

i did that for a while, but on my linux only one app can
have the sound card open at a time, so it got annoying
killing it off and restarting it.  this way ajuke can take
care of closing the audio device when it is paused or stopped.

either way the code has to be written.  

russ