Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness

Craig Schlenter (craig@is.co.za)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:36:25 +0200

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 06:01:22AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Gerhard Mack wrote:
>
> >Interesting, it seems to have worked ok for this mornings alarmclock of 5
> >metallica mp3s started with crontab. (yes this is what it takes to wake me
> >up in the morning) Everything sounded fine.
>
> If you're needing 5 metallica MP3's to wake you up, perhaps it
> skipped during the first 1-4 and you slept through it.
>
> I just played the entire Ride the lightening album in MP3, and it
> skips too. I tried mpg123 and a couple other programs. Still
> skips.

The only thing that works properly for me is either x11amp or amp-0.7.6.

amp-0.7.6 was compiled to do realtime stuff and has to run as root.

All the other players I've tried skip to some degree. When playing a mp3
from cd I have the odd skip as the cd spins up, amp reads some stuff,
the cd spins down, amp wants to read more and skips while the cd spins
up and so on ... irritating.

I wrote a little read-mp3-into 5 Meg buffer thing and then pipe into amp
/proc/self/fd/0 (or is it 1?) which worked quite nicely for that. The
code for that seems to be gone now as I trashed my one drive but it
shouldn't be hard to write something like that again.

Cheers,

--Craig

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