Re: [Gnump3d-users] cannot get flac to work with gnump3d

[gnump3d]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:53:24PM -0400, Stan Mulder wrote:
NS>address@hidden wrote:
NS>
NS>>Hi folks
NS>>
NS>>I hope you don't mind another question about this but I've read
NS>>everything I can find on this list and elsewhere but it's just not
NS>>working for me. I'm running Fedora Core 4 and have installed
NS>>gnump3d-2.9.5. I can stream mp3 and ogg files fine. Unfortunately, my
NS>>whole CD collection (~530 discs) is in flac format so I'd really like
NS>>this work..
NS>>
NS>>I added the following entries to /etc/gnump3d/mime.types
NS>>
NS>>application/x-flac                           flac
NS>>audio/x-flac                                 flac
NS>>
NS>>
NS>>and also to /etc/mime.types just to be sure.
NS>>
NS>>
NS>>However, even though the files are shown in xmms (or winamp) for me,
NS>>they will not play. I can definitely play flac files with either of
NS>>these programs as long as they reside on the local disk and are not
NS>>being streamed.
NS>>
NS>>If I try to download them with lynx, the mime type is clearly shown as
NS>>audio/x-flac for these files but they still don't play!
NS>>
NS>>Any suggestions you have would be appreciated!
NS>>
NS>>Cheers,
NS>>-patrick
NS>> 
NS>>
NS>Seems I read this solution somewhere:
NS>
NS>1. audio/mpeg                   mpga mp2 mp3 flac
NS>
Nop, does not work.

NS>Yes, it's weird. Can't remember why that was suggested.
NS>
NS>And if using xmms:

Using mplayer and beep-media-player. Both work fine with http streaming
and fail with gnump3d :(

NS>
NS>2. get the most recent xmms flac plugin (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
NS>
NS>3. Xmms was not properly handling .flac extensions. Problem file is 
NS>mpg123.c. It's fixed in the xmms cvs version.