XMMS & Sound Questions

[Akito]

1) When XMMS is playing MP3 files, it overlaps them as I switch. Can I make this instant? I don't like hearing both songs for the 1/2 second.

2) aumix doesn't seem to remember my volume settings. This could be because linux crashed the last two times I had to shut it down, not sure.

[psi42]

Originally posted by Akito

2) aumix doesn't seem to remember my volume settings. This could be because linux crashed the last two times I had to shut it down, not sure.

You will need to save your aumix settings to a file (it's just file-->save in aumix if I remember correctly) and then load it with aumix -L upon bootup.

[Akito]

Ok, I already do a file>save, but don't know how to do the boot thing.

[psi42]

Originally posted by Akito
Ok, I already do a file>save, but don't know how to do the boot thing.

Okay, a very quick way to restore volume settings is to save the aumix file to ~/.aumixrc

Then put

aumix -L

in your ~/.bash_profile

And it will be run whenever you log in.



To set it up to run for all users before you even get a login prompt, you will need to put it in your rc.local script.
So say you put the file in
/usr/local/.aumix_settings (just an example, probably not the best place to put it), you would use aumix to load it.

I'm guessing the syntax would be:

aumix -L /usr/local/.aumix_settings

but that might be wrong




Alternatively, you could supply arguments to the aumix command, so you wouldn't need the file. Sorry I don't know the syntax, check the manpage. :) Sorry, aumix is not installed on my box. :(:)