On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:11 +1000, Bill wrote:

> 1) how can I rip .cda tracks to ogg vorbis under linux, and

KDE has this nifty thing called "KIO" -- it's a system that makes audio
cds, mailboxes, ftp servers etc look like normal folders. The easiest
way to rip CDs under KDE is to punch in 'audiocd:/' into the location
bar in Konqueror. There's an 'Ogg Vorbis' directory in there and you can
just drag the files out of there and it will encode them on the fly as
it writes them to your disk.

(as an aside, does anyone know how to ask kio (or gnome-vfs for that
matter), what plugins they have available? is there a 'kio:/' or
something that lists them all for me?)

> 2) what is causing Juk to crash?

I can think of two possibilities, but it's hard to say without more
information. Either juk is blocking waiting for your sound card to
become free, or, your ogg files are broken in some exotic way. Either
way it probably shouldn't burn clock cycles like that; it might be worth
filing a bug with its authors.

Of course, it could be something completely different. I suppose it's
also possible that juk is trying to start artsd and failing over and
over again (artsd is a program that lets you send multiple sound streams
to your sound card. It is supposed to be started up when you log in to
KDE).

Does the same thing happen in XMMS? You might need to configure XMMS to
talk to 'artsd' if you're running it under KDE. I find XMMS to be the
most stable of the music players out there, so see if it works there
first.

HTH,

James.

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