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| === Alsactl === | === Alsactl === | ||
| - | Alsactl controls alsa and can store settings or restore sound for example, to retain preferences for each start. When configuring sound with soundconf, volumes are automatically adjusted. You can use alsamixer as root to change the values and then launch alsactl to store the configuration: | + | Alsactl controls alsa and can store settings or restore sound for example, to retain preferences for each start. When configuring sound with soundconf, volumes are automatically adjusted. You can use alsamixer as root to change the values and then launch alsactl to store the configuration. |
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| + | First, start alsactl: | ||
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| + | <code> # alsactl init </code> | ||
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| + | Then use alsamixer to set up sound levels according to your preferences (you can find them at //Applications// menu --> //Multimedia//). Lastly, use alsactl again to store your preferences: | ||
| <code> # alsactl store </code> | <code> # alsactl store </code> | ||
| - | To restore the configuration, you can use the alsactl restore command or to restore your preferences at each system startup you can edit /etc/init.d/local.sh with your favorite text editor or simply 'echo' the changes: | + | To restore the configuration you can use the alsactl restore command or to restore your preferences at each system startup you can edit /etc/init.d/local.sh with your favorite text editor or simply 'echo' the changes: |
| <code> # echo 'alsactl restore' > /etc/init.d/local.sh </code> | <code> # echo 'alsactl restore' > /etc/init.d/local.sh </code> | ||
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| ===== Asunder - Audio CD Ripper ===== | ===== Asunder - Audio CD Ripper ===== | ||
| - | Asunder retrieves and encodes audio tracks from a CD. The toolkit is simple and easy to use, encoding songs into wav, ogg or mp3 (via lame package). It can search CDDB, create playlists and edit file names. You will find Asunder in the Multimedia category on the menu. | + | Asunder retrieves and encodes audio tracks from a CD. The toolkit is simple and easy to use, encoding songs into wav, ogg or mp3 (via lame package). It can search CDDB, create playlists and edit file names. You will find Asunder in the //Multimedia// category on the menu. |
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| + | ===== mhWaveEdit - Audio editor and recorder ===== | ||
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| + | mhWaveEdit is a graphical application for playing, recording and editing sound files. Supported formats: wav (default), and a few others. A variety of other formats can also be imported through Mplayer. To start from | ||
| + | the menu, select //Multimedia -> mhWaveEdit//. | ||
| ===== MPD - Music Player Daemon ===== | ===== MPD - Music Player Daemon ===== | ||
| - | MPD is a great little music player that uses the server/client architecture, this means it can be even run remotely without a X server operating. To install MPD on SliTaz: //tazpkg get-install mpd//. MPD on SliTaz drops root priviledges, so to start the server, just run: | + | MPD is a great little music player that uses the server/client architecture, this means it can be even run remotely without a X server operating. To install MPD on SliTaz: <code> # tazpkg get-install mpd</code> MPD on SliTaz drops root priviledges, so to start the server, just run: |
| <code> $ mpd </code> | <code> $ mpd </code> | ||
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| <code> $ mpd --kill </code> | <code> $ mpd --kill </code> | ||
| - | Simply drag your music files into the ~/music folder (or create a link) and then run mpd --create-db as root to update the database and you're ready to use one of the many clients. The mpd --version command lets you have a full list of available formats and outputs. | + | Simply drag your music files into the //~/music// folder (or create a link) and then run //mpd --create-db// as root to update the database and you're ready to use one of the many clients. The //mpd --version// command lets you have a full list of available formats and outputs. |
| - | === MPC - Music Player Client === | + | ===== MPC - Music Player Client ===== |
| - | MPC is a popular client for MPD, to load all the files into MPC from the MPD database and start to play them, simply install: //tazpkg get-install mpc// and run: | + | MPC is a popular client for MPD, to load all the files into MPC from the MPD database and start to play them, simply install and run: |
| - | <code> $ mpc add / | + | <code> # tazpkg get-install mpc |
| + | $ mpc add / | ||
| $ mpc play </code> | $ mpc play </code> | ||
| - | The command <nowiki> mpc --help </nowiki> gives you a full list of all the available options that allow you to edit the playlist, enable crossfade, adjust the volume and shuffle tracks, etc. | + | The command //mpc --help// gives you a full list of all the available options that allow you to edit the playlist, enable crossfade, adjust the volume and shuffle tracks, etc. |
| ===== mpg123 ===== | ===== mpg123 ===== | ||
| - | Mpg123 is a command line audio player and file converter. This means that you can listen to music or convert files from a terminal. To display help, use the --help option. To play a mp3 file, just launch mpg123 followed by the name of the audio file: | + | mpg123 is a command line audio player and file converter, this means that you can listen to music or convert files from a terminal. To install: |
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| + | <code># tazpkg get-install mpg123</code> | ||
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| + | To display help, use the //--help// option. To play a mp3 file, just launch mpg123 followed by the name of the audio file: | ||
| <code> $ mpg123 sound.mp3 </code> | <code> $ mpg123 sound.mp3 </code> | ||
| - | Mpg123 can also encode a file into another format, for example you can convert a //wav// file into a mp3 file. Example: | + | mpg123 can also encode a file into another format, for example you can convert a //wav// file into a mp3 file. Example: |
| <code> $ mpg123 -w sound.mp3 sound.wav </code> | <code> $ mpg123 -w sound.mp3 sound.wav </code> | ||
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| ===== Mplayer ===== | ===== Mplayer ===== | ||
| - | Mplayer is a popular movie player for Linux suppporting many formats including, DVD, VCD, mpeg, wmv, realvideo, etc. It can also play various audio codecs such as aac, wma, realaudio, as well as ogg, flac, etc. Mplayer is configurable via a right click menu and customizable using various skins and GUIs that easily enable you to configure your own video drivers, output devices and so on. | + | Mplayer is a popular movie player for Linux suppporting many formats including, DVD, VCD, mpeg, wmv, realvideo, etc. It can also play various audio codecs such as aac, wma, realaudio, as well as ogg, flac, etc. Mplayer is configurable via a right click menu and customizable using various skins and GUIs that easily enable you to configure your own video drivers, output devices and so on. To install mplayer: |
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| + | <code># tazpkg get-install mplayer-svn</code> | ||
| ===== Xine ===== | ===== Xine ===== | ||
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| ===== VLC ===== | ===== VLC ===== | ||
| - | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. | + | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. To install vlc: |
| <code> # tazpkg get-install vlc </code> | <code> # tazpkg get-install vlc </code> | ||
| Official VLC [[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/|website]] | Official VLC [[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/|website]] | ||