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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:17:27AM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Hi Sindi,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:58:14 +0000
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > In DOS I can play midis without wave table or patches, that sound like a 
> > kazoo.
> 
>    There are a few like that - and some of them can only play one track.
> If you want a DOS MIDI player, try FreeCDP. It is freeware, written by
> Florian Xaver.   Go to:

ALL of the SB cards that I have used will play midi files.  A couple of 
them with RAM on them sound better, but only when used with one particular 
free DOS player - PBM - and in one case PMB would only work from a Windows 
DOS box.  I will look at FreeCDP.  Apparently linux has no such players 
that you know about anyway.  PMB is Italian as are the instructions.

 > > http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225895/drdos/drplayer.htm
> 
>    There are a heap of DOS players of all sorts there.
> 
> >  Is there something similar for linux?
> 
>    Not that I am aware of.  And I wouldn't recommend anything that 
> plays MIDIs like that - I speak as a musician.

PMB sounded just fine.  It loaded wave tables I think.
Not like an orchestra, but maybe an electronic keyboard (cheaper model).
 
> 
> > Most of the online radio stations call for Windows Media Player now and 
> > you say mplayer is the linux equivalent and it also plays movies. 
> 
>     Xine also plays Windos Media (.wmv, .asf)
> 
> > I would 
> > like to see a version that plays only internet radio files.  
> 
>    Don't think there is such an animal.


I wish I knew how to write one.  Someone tried to put together a DOS 
Realaudio player but only for offline use on .ram files.  

> > >    I get RealPlayer to be called from Links graphical when running 
> > > under X.   
> > 
> > Please explain exactly how you set this up in Setup - associations and 
> > file extensions, I presume.  Thanks.  It took me two hours of 
> > experimenting to get it working with Opera.  audio/x-pn something or 
> > other?  ram,rm,rmm,rpm as file extensions?

Content-type  audio/x-pn-realaudio  
Leave checked only open in X-window.
Save changes.

>    It was working, but I seem to have adjusted it to death.  :(
> I will have a play later, and get back to you.

I got it working myself after hearing that it was possible.  See my later 
posting on this subject.  I was able to get Realaudio to work by itself in 
X (Xvesa) when fed the URL, and it might also work with links 
non-graphical (links -0.93) run in X.  

It only took me two years and a lot of help to get this going.  Now if 
only I could get the SB cards to also play .wav sounds, and figure out why 
Realaudio is looking for keysyms.  (I fixed the problem of the missing 
library libXp.  It was apparently looking in /usr/X11 instead of 
/usr/X11R6 so I made a symlink from the latter to the former).  The 
computer where it works is my partner's, where I installed the full 10MB 
of X, and I am missing something essential on mine.



 > > Regards,
>          Ron
> 
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