audio CD's in SCSI drives -- syntax?

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sun Jul 22 16:27:00 UTC 2007


On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
 > Ian Smith schrieb:
 > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote:
 > >  > On 7/21/07, Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > >  > > Ben Kaduk schrieb:
 > > [..]
 > >  > > The mp3 player paragraph probably could do with a rewrite as well,
 > >  > > although it might be hard to come up with a substitute to XMMS - not
 > >  > > because XMMS is so great and popular still, but mostly because there is
 > >  > > so much more choice now.  mpg123 on the other hand is very outdated and
 > >  > > should probably be substituted with madplay.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I will look at madplay.
 > >
 > > mpg123 works as well as ever :) 
 > >   
 > The current versions (0.6x) would be okay, but unfortunately, the port
 > is stuck with the ancient 0.59 and that does *not* work very well by
 > today's standards (for instance, it doesn't even understand modern id3
 > tags, since they were specified about a year after that release was made :).

Oh.  I only use it for playing odd podcasts and other mp3s from command
line, and don't much care about id3 tags.  Guess I'm outdated too :)

Cheers, Ian



More information about the freebsd-multimedia mailing list