Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:31:52 +0000

zapper wrote:

MLEvD wrote:
Asus 701.
630mhz celeron M, single core.
512mb ram
Max 30mb/s read speed off disk, more like 1mb/s for random small read/write
The gaps feel like the music stops for a very brief time before continuing. It's not right!
Hmm, if that's your laptop, no wonder...
I recommend using something extremely lightweight such as i3-wm or equivalent.
Just my two cents...

Cheers, but the thing is, I can get the mate desktop idling at around 100MB and it looks fine with little effort. My interest in the slower machines is purely about battery life. with six batteries, 4 hrs each headless, that's a whole day. With the desktop it's 3.5 hrs each.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:28:33 +0000

MLEvD wrote:

Asus 701.
630mhz celeron M, single core.
512mb ram
Max 30mb/s read speed off disk, more like 1mb/s for random small read/write
The gaps feel like the music stops for a very brief time before continuing. It's not right!

Hmm, if that's your laptop, no wonder...

I recommend using something extremely lightweight such as i3-wm or equivalent.

Just my two cents...

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:36:22 +0000

More findings:
MOC running on devan without desktop is effectively gapless, but forgets networked audio output setting on reboot.
MOC running on Antix without desktop is gappy, but remembers networked audio output setting. For some reason antix pulsaudio has standard 0 nice while it is nice of -11 on other systems, so presumably renicing pulse in Antix could fix this. Unless, of course, that breaks antix.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:24:27 +0000

Asus 701.
630mhz celeron M, single core.
512mb ram
Max 30mb/s read speed off disk, more like 1mb/s for random small read/write

The gaps feel like the music stops for a very brief time before continuing. It's not right!

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:41:23 +0000

MLEvD wrote:

zapper wrote:
Moc works for me, just use by command mocp
and you get a cli interface.
Do you have a very fast machine? Perhaps your gaps are very small but I assure you, they are there!

Haven't noticed much issues, and mocp works on both my hyperbola gnu/linux install and if it works on that, it will work well on my devuan laptop too. Because the hyperbola one is on a x200, the devuan one is on an x230, and x230 is like twice as fast.

Both have some version of coreboot on them/me disabled.

Tell me, what do those gaps feel like to you? I am curious.

Just to make sure, If you like, I can always test on my thinkpad x230. But first I need to know what I am testing for. ;o

Also, is your comp a 2nd gen intel, 3rd gen intel, arm, etc?

Don't know your specs to know how slow your comp is or how fast it is.

Your call though.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:36:19 +0000

Ok, so my job for today is to grab a spare eee pc, Beowulf3.1 netinst, decline all tasksel.
Install audacious then run audacious -H and I can make playlist from sd card there and then?

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:17:26 +0000

 Surely a cli mode for deadbeef or audacious needs to happen?

Already done and in repo.

       -H, --headless
              Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user interface.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:32:36 +0000

@andyprough I've tried a few players which claimed gapless but didn't do it properly, if a new one hasn't been written recently then there most likely isn't one. Surely a cli mode for deadbeef or audacious needs to happen?

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:30:24 +0000

zapper wrote:

Moc works for me, just use by command mocp
and you get a cli interface.

Do you have a very fast machine? Perhaps your gaps are very small but I assure you, they are there!

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (andyprough) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:02:13 +0000

For cli, mpv has a "--gapless-audio=yes" option by which mpv claims to give gapless play. So the command would be 'mpv --gapless-audio=yes song1 song2 song3...'. Unfortunately, I could not hear any difference - there's still the same gap of about one or two beats between songs as without using the option. Possibly it would work better with a playlist or with some other option.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:58:09 +0000

Moc works for me, just use by command mocp

and you get a cli interface.

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:03:03 +0000

Wow, you're right, Audacious does do gapless rather well nowadays. It's like deadbeef with bloat. iirc it broke when I tried to feed it my music collection.
Does Audacious have a cli mode?

Re: Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:13:47 +0000

I had to look up that term to see what it meant. Audacious does gapless playback. I just tested. It went from Mona to Maiden of the Cander Moon without missing a beat. (Quicksilver Messenger Service). And unlike deadbeef (which I like a lot) audacious is in the repo.

It does playlists, but I never bother with them, so I don't know how good or bad they are.

Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong.

dummy@example.com (MLEvD) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:01:31 +0000

Deadbeef is the only linux music player that does gapless playback properly.

Moc is lightning fast but still gappy. Is there something out there? Cli gapless playback and half-decent playlisting features?