>> man 7 juke # juke(7) >> man 7 playlistfs # playlistfs(7) >> >> I have not yet looked deeply enough into those, but as far as I recall, >> you create a decoder for each file-type as an external program. > > right. > >> I have no idea how things like fast-forward/backward work, for instance > > they don't, as far as I know. >
Too bad, imho. Can one pass notes to APE-programs? Sure you can, but is there noted() etc? >> (pause, etc). > > stop/continue reading from the decoder, I think. Ah, so they read stdout and pass that to /dev/audio then. hm. > >> And I have no idea how I easily create playlists. >> It's shell magic for mplayer, and GUIs using mplayer >> may also provide ways - as I read the manpages, >> I am supposed to write maps myself. :-( > > it is possible to generate (template) maps. > either when you get the music from cd (readcd does this) > or using the tags that are present in (e.g.) mp3 files. As I recall you need a map to actually start up playlistfs/juke*, so how does one start? Can you give an example? :)
