[LAU] OSC-controllable lightweight soundplayer for linux?

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Wed Feb 27 12:54:34 UTC 2013


On Wed, February 27, 2013 10:29 pm, andersvi at notam02.no wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Im looking for ways to control basic audio-playback from within an
> application here.  Need just simple things like 'load file', 'play',
> 'pause'/'unpause', 'stop', perhaps 'seek s.'
>
> I know about the various -daemon and -input modes for alsaplayer and
> mplayer, which is a good plan-B or C - but want to look for OSC-support
> first.
>
> Q: does any of the standard mediaplayers (aplay, mplayer, alsaplayer,
> sox/play, banshee, amarok, totem, rhythmbox,xmms....) support
> OSC-control?
>
> Im looking for something very light-weight, fast ("instant") start-up
> and play.  Ideally it would be a player already packaged in the standard
> distributions.
>
> I can probably use a "daemon-mode" player, but need to have separate
> access to several instances without too much fuzz.
>

ecasound supports osc.



> Thanks for all relevant suggestions.
>
> -anders
>


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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd


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