December 2004
Beginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
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Chapter 9, Create Time-Shifted FM Radio
Audio Playback
In this phase, you’ll configure your computer to log in automatically, and
verify that your audio player of choice can play your recorded files. Choose
an audio player that meets these requirements:
• Fits your budget. (Ideally, it’s free.)
• Can play your chosen audio format.
• Can be controlled from a script.
• Can play back files that are being actively recorded.
• Optionally, provides a graphical interface for easy control when you’re
sitting at a computer.
I chose XMMS because it
almost meets all of these requirements. XMMS is
an extremely popular player and is included with most Linux distributions,
so it’s well supported. It’s also very extensible, and you can find many dif-
ferent plug-ins and skins. This makes it easy to customize.
The one requirement XMMS didn’t fully meet is the ability to play back
files that are being actively recorded. XMMS can do this, but it has some
significant limitations. XMMS seems to only check the length of an audio
file when it first opens it. As a result, XMMS cannot rewind or fast-forward
live radio recordings. It will play back and pause, but it ignores all requests
to rewind or fast-forward within the newly recorded portion of an audio file.
This is a significant drawback; however, every other player I experimented
with refused to play the newly recorded portion ...
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