On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> I have a problem with the play list display in xmms. I used Options -> > Preferences -> Fonts and saw a huge list of names I've never seen before. > The fontface names I know I have on the system (e.g., Bitstream Charter) are > annotated as being 2-byte fonts that might not display correctly. But, when > I select a fontface without that notice, I see gibberish displayed in the > play list. > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > I used xmms before, but it was removed from Slackware-12.0 and -12.1 > (replaced by audacious), then restored in -12.2. When I try to invoke > audacious I get a seg fault. I feel your pain. I have about a dozen music players installed on my Intrepid laptop, and finding one that displays filenames and tags correctly is a challenge. A lot of them are front ends for xmms, so you might try some of the alternatives. There are also dozens of plugins for xmms, mostly to enable it to play different kinds of files. And the latest version is xmms2. Here is a link with a listing of most of the options and packages: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xmms There is also Amarok, which has some fellow travelers as well (e.g., Banshee). And there is also the venerable Rhythmbox, which has been the standard in Ubuntu for some time. And I also have Realplayer, which is the free but not OS add-on to the FOSS helixplayer. The problem is not just filenames, it is also the tags. For example, at the moment I am listening to something from the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in Rhythmbox, and the ü is displayed correctly. But earlier I was listening to something by Lutosławski and the ł was not displayed correctly. Strangely, Rhythmbox displayed the ł correctly in the filename, but not when it was part of an mp3 tag. And if I try the same file in Amarok it displays some of the tags correctly, but not the filenames. I think it is just that the various developers are not completely savvy on Unicode and have not fully implemented it in every part of the program. But having said that, your problem may be something else. If the entire filename is gibberish, including characters found on a red white and blue keyboard in the land of the free and the home of the closely watched, then something else is going on. I just have problems with the foreigners who insist that the Roman alphabet isn't good enough for their language. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
