Hmm, Perhaps I was not specific enough in my previous descriptions of the perceived breakdown in the desired functionality, which is .... streaming files ending in *.m4a
Here's How I replicate the situation. 0) Ensure the audio server is running and available 1) Run Audio Player (Winamp v5.08) 2) Add URL to Playlist, http://audio.example.org:8088/recurse.m3u 3) Step #2 Populates my Playlist Window with the contents of my entire GNUmp3d Server (Lots of Audio Files, Mostly GNU / FSF / RMS / EM Speeches ;) 4) At this point I can play any one of the hundreds of audio files 5) It appears that most files ending in *.mp3 are streamed and begin playing very quickly after a connection is made back to the audio server 6) Unfortunately it appears that most files ending in *.m4a are not streamed but first must open a secondary window titled "M4A HTTP Download", which begins to download the entire contents of the file to the local computer (each time :( ) ... It also says something like " Retrieving file ..( xx% done) .. xx bytes completed / xx bytes total, read @ xxx.xx kb / sec" 7) Then after the m4a audio file is downloaded it begins playing, if you stop and start the playing of the file the entire audio file must then again be downloaded. With hundreds of audio files (yes, mostly music :) it becomes fairly tier some to endure the download again and again while listening to my audio. Ok, now with that out of the way I can move forward :) I'm willing and honestly a bit eager to doing a little contributing development work to improve the package in this regard/general, once I identify a bit more clearly just where the breakdown lies. I had thought that it was a breakdown in the server software as it supports both streaming and download of audio files in different context (audio player vs web application). I could very well be looking in the wrong direction, I'm open to this possibility as I don't know enough about how Winamp 5 would interact with the server at 'that' level :| //kracker Tony Bacala : Transformers : Lets Roll ( Old School Remix) Sage Francis - Sick of Waging War - Narcissist - Remix Interested In free software? Listen to free software advocates, you know ... for fun :) FSF/GNU Recordings : Audio Mirror http://ezcommunity.net/article/view/190/1/43/ http://ezcommunity.net/download/gnu_audio/ _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users
