29 Mar
2009
29 Mar
'09
9:02 a.m.
Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important money just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
29 Mar
29 Mar
11:20 a.m.
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:59:21 +0200, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important money just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Hi,
I tend to apply to my desktop PC and my server what I do to preserve
battery on my laptop. There are lots of possible tuning that you can do to
make things better. Googling around for tutorials on laptop energy saving
should get you started. The basics would be a kernel with dynticks enabled
and cpufreq with a conservative or ondemand default governor. Powertop will
also come in handy : http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
There are also some stuff that can be done on the harware side, like for
instance getting a better power supply unit. Most common PSUs have a 60%
yield, a green one needs to be at least 80%. Those of course are a little
more expensive. I am personally very happy with my Seasonic PSU... See here
: http://www.seasonic.com/
Cheers,
Marc-Olivier Barre.
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12:12 p.m.
On 29 March 2009 at 12:59, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my
pc for listening
to music.
[snip]
So I want to save as much energy as possible without
buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Laptop versions of kernels tend to want to save power to increase
battery life. Distributions may offer different versions of kernels
for use, even within the same distribution release. For instance,
Mandriva has laptop, multi-processor, server, large RAM size,
desktop, and multimedia kernels, plus some permutations of those.
For listening to compressed music with a player, the laptop kernel
should save power and be adequate for the music. Having power saving
hardware, e.g. super efficient power supply and very few add-in
cards, can help a lot too.
G'luck....
--
Kevin
3:48 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important  money  just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
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One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
4:40 p.m.
Justin Smith wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
\r
Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important money just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
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One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
4:53 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Justin Smith wrote:
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, for command
line audio players there are quite a few, including xmms2 which is a
demon that can be controlled from the command line and juke, which is
an audio player with a curses frontend.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola
Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
\r
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Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important  money  just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
5:08 p.m.
On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:53:40 Justin Smith wrote:
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure,
there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, for command
line audio players there are quite a few, including xmms2 which is a
demon that can be controlled from the command line and juke, which is
an audio player with a curses frontend.
Playlist on the commandline is one of the easier things: just add multiple
files as arguments. mplayer is able to cope with that. And the < and > buttons
on your keyboard let you jump back and forth file-wise.
Have fun,
Arnold
5:20 p.m.
Justin Smith wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not CLI but AlsaPlayer is very light and good.
I noticed a drop in my power bill after getting an Antec Neo 500 power
supply, and Core2Duo is much more efficient than my old Athlon 2000. If
I'm not doing anything else with main PC I'll often play music on EeePC
from a 250Mb USB drive which is rsynced regularly from my main PC. Only
about 30W all up, about quarter of the main PC.
Justin Smith wrote:
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, for command
line audio players there are quite a few, including xmms2 which is a
demon that can be controlled from the command line and juke, which is
an audio player with a curses frontend.
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola
Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
\r
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Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important money just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
30 Mar
30 Mar
2:31 a.m.
Justin Smith wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
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Justin Smith wrote:
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola
Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
Hi,
Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
to music. I guess this are just modern times....
But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
important money just disappears...
So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
distro's?
Thanks in advance,
\r
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
7:19 a.m.
david wrote:
Justin Smith wrote:
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
\r
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola
Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
Justin Smith wrote:
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola
Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
> to music. I guess this are just modern times....
>
> But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
> important money just disappears...
>
> So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
> Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
> distro's?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> \r
> _______________________________________________
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> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>
>
>
One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
4:57 p.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
Sorry, I have no idea!
--
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authenticity, honesty, community
Is there a
command line multimedia music player?
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
6:19 p.m.
david wrote:
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
Sorry, I have no idea!
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
\r
> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>
>
If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
6:51 p.m.
2009/3/30, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com>om>:
david wrote:
Look it's easy, just press ">" 12 times...
Dan
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Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Sorry, I have no idea!
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this? >>
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>>
>>
> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>
>
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
7:12 p.m.
Dan S wrote:
2009/3/30, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com>om>:
Sorry I meant 112
david wrote:
Look it's easy, just press ">" 12 times...
Dan
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
>>> Is there a command line multimedia
music player?
>>>
>>>
>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>
>>
> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>
> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
> Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
>
>
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
Sorry, I have no idea!
10:25 p.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Dan S wrote:
If you're not kidding, I actually have an answer for you:
mplayer `grep 112 playlist | cut -d" " -f2`
where your playlist file is numbered with a space between the number and
the file names, and where there are no spaces in the file names. Note
those are back-ticks causing the entire expression they enclose to be
executed before the result is passed to the mplayer executable.
I assume you understand those utilities but if not, grep 112 playlist
looks for a match to that file you wanted to play, and cut -d" " -f2
selects just the file name found in field 2 of the line cut at the space
character.
Now, before you complain that that's a self-defeating amount of typing,
just return to that command in your shell's history and simply change
the number to play my preference, for example - track 111.
If you are kidding, you should be ashamed of yourself... P - )
Frank
2009/3/30, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com>om>:
Sorry I meant 112
david wrote:
Look it's easy, just press ">" 12 times...
Dan
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
<snip>
> And is it possible to switch to, for example
number 12 of the list?
>
Sorry, I have no idea!
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
31 Mar
31 Mar
7:43 a.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
david wrote:
I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
mplayer that could be used?
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Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Sorry, I have no idea!
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this? >>
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>>
>>
> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>
mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
7:58 a.m.
david wrote:
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
alsaplayer used to have this functionality.
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david wrote:
I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
mplayer that could be used?
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
>>> Is there a command line multimedia
music player?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>
>>
> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>
> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
> Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
>
>
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
Sorry, I have no idea!
8:08 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
david wrote:
Hmmm, it started up a GUI when I tried installing it here. I think the
original poster was looking for a CLI player.
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Grammostola Rosea wrote:
alsaplayer used to have this functionality. david wrote:
I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
mplayer that could be used? Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>>
>> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>>
>> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on
>> Linux Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular
>> playlist formats.
>>
> And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
>
Sorry, I have no idea!
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
8:22 a.m.
david wrote:
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
alsaplayer -i text
IIRC it also has support for scripting with python. Several people have
written fairly advanced g/uis for use in car audio systems and other
places where a button controlled interface is useful.
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
david wrote:
Hmmm, it started up a GUI when I tried installing it here. I think the
original poster was looking for a CLI player.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
alsaplayer used to have this functionality.
david wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>
>
>
>>>>> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>>>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>>>
>>> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on
>>> Linux Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular
>>> playlist formats.
>>>
>>>
>> And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
>>
>>
> Sorry, I have no idea!
>
>
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this?
I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
mplayer that could be used?
1 Apr
1 Apr
4:24 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
alsaplayer -i text
IIRC it also has support for scripting with python. Several people have
written fairly advanced g/uis for use in car audio systems and other
places where a button controlled interface is useful.
I see there's also the alsaplayer-daemon, which "provides a
non-interactive (daemon) interface to the player, so that it is only
accessible via a remote control application." Perhaps the original
poster could use something like that, if the text version isn't able to
do what's wanted.
--
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alsaplayer used to have this functionality.
Hmmm, it started up a GUI when I tried installing it here. I think the
original poster was looking for a CLI player. 
31 Mar
31 Mar
12:20 p.m.
david wrote:
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
I think it should be quite easy to write a bash script that reads a file list,
plays them sequentially, and responds to keyboard events for switching between
songs. 20 lines maybe?
--
Olivier
david wrote:
I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
mplayer that could be used?
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
possible to solve this? >>> Is there a command line multimedia
music player?
>>>
>>>
>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>
> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>
> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux
> Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats.
>
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
Sorry, I have no idea!
7:24 p.m.
Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12
of the list?
Use xmms2, as someone mentioned..
alias x="xmms2"
alias xa="xmms2 add"
alias xs="xmms2 stop"
alias xp="xmms2 play"
alias xpa="xmms2 pause"
alias xc="xmms2 clear"
alias xl="xmms2 list"
alias xn="xmms2 next"
alias xpr="xmms2 prev"
alias xj="xmms2 jump"
alias xr="xmms2 remove"
alias xst="xmms2 status"
alias xse="xmms2 seek"
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29 Mar
29 Mar
5:40 p.m.
On 29 March 2009 at 20:36, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a command line multimedia music player?
/usr/bin/play comes with the sox package and will play audio files.
If it's built with MP3 support, it will play those files too.
Cheers....
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