Web hosting resellers - 475Chapter 19Playing Music and VideoFigure 19-5:Play Ogg Vorbis
475Chapter 19Playing Music and VideoFigure 19-5:Play Ogg Vorbis and other audio files from the XMMS playlist. If XMMS is not able to find a configured sound card, it redirects its output to theDisk Writer plug-in. This causes the files you play to be written to hard disk as WAVfiles. You can get many more audio plug-ins from www.xmms.org. The XMMS audio playercan be used in the following way: 1.Obtain music files by ripping songs from a CD or copying them from the Webso that they are in an accessible directory, or by inserting a music CD in yourCD-ROM drive. (XMMS expects the CD to be accessible from /dev/cdrom.) 2.From the red hat menu, select Sound & Video.Audio Player. The X MultimediaSystem player appears. 3.Click the Eject button. The Load files window appears. 4.If you have inserted a CD, the contents of /mnt/cdromappear in the Filespane. Select the files you want to add to your Playlist and click the AddSelected Files or the Add All Files in Directory button to add all songs fromthe current directory. To add audio files from your file system, browse yourfiles and directories and click the same buttons to add the audio files youwant. Select Close. 5.Click the Play List button (the tiny button marked PL) on the console. APlaylist Editor window appears. 6.Double-click the music file, and it starts to play. 7.With a file selected and playing, here are a few actions you can take: Control play Buttons for controlling play are what you would expectto see on a standalone CD player. From left to right, the buttons letyougo to a previous track, play, pause, stop, go to the next track, andeject the CD. The eject button opens a window, enabling you to load thenext file. Adjust sound Use the left slider bar to adjust the volume. Use the rightslider bar to change the right-to-left balance. Display time Click in the elapsed time area to toggle between elapsedtime and time remaining. Note27_