> Songbird can with the fluendo plugin, I believe. > > Thanks for your progress report, as well, its good to > know that folks > are happy with it -- VirtualBox under MacOS was one > of the things that > I've not personally been able to test, though I know > other people tested > it with good results. > > - Garrett
Thanks. Boomer itself is an incredible piece of work! And I see that 4Front apparently has at least preliminary Sun Ray support working. I gather that will need some re-working to fit in with Boomer, but that it means that the new version of that is also probably well in hand. I am a little bothered by some of the "non-goals", esp. hardware MIDI; I think the ability to talk to (say) MIDI capability of a sound-card, or a USB-to-MIDI adaptor to external MIDI devices, would still be quite useful, eventually. And I'm surprised that there was little immediate interest in phone-grade (a-law or u-law) audio, although I see that works fine playing some old 8-bit u-law .au files, so I suppose that sort of thing is mostly done nowadays in user space (whether converting to what a hardware audio device supports, or subsequently sending it over the network). But I don't mean to detract at all from a much needed and much appreciated accomplishment. Songbird works (if allowed to install whatever plugins it wants), but not well; it's very sensitive to other system activity (within the vm, or on the host system). Doing nothing else, it's fine, but even light activity may cause it to glitch. But I doubt that's a driver problem (give or take something tunable), because realplayer is rock-solid playing MP3s. Rhythmbox, even after letting it install the Fluendo MP3 plugin, wouldn't work - said something about not having Xv support. But that's not an audio problem either. Thanks again for the great work, looking forward to (whatever) future developments! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
