Thread: i got redhat

Hey, I'm currently trying to get a Linux based mp3 player going aswell (I posted the question "mp3/ogg player for Linux?" a few days ago).

It doesn't look like too many people are doing this kind of stuff here (no responses to my question).

We (my brother and I) are having quite a bit of success using xmms (http://www.xmms.org) to play both mp3 and ogg. Its a nice player (a clone of winamp), but it requires an "X session" (the GUI) to be running. We were looking for something that didn't need a GUI, so it would be easier on the machine (150 MHz). But we found an X server that is very small, and takes up only 1-2 megabytes of memory! I forget the name of the X server, but if you want it I can the name.

Xmms is nice because it has plugins for the Irman, LCDs, etc. Some other options for command line players are: mpg123, ogg123, mp3blaster, etc. I've found two decent systems to get your player set up: Mpy3 (http://thelocust.org/projects/mpy3/), and Cajun (http://cajun.sourceforge.net). These probably do most of the work for you - but since I'm using xmms, I cant use them.

I hate to agree with the people that complain about Linux being so hard to use / configure, but if you're new to Linux this might be a big task. I would bet that the current version of redhat would run very slow on a 200 MHz machine - but it may be worth a shot. If I were you (and not interested in playing Ogg vorbis files), I would try Cajun or Mpy3 (also these dont require an X session, so it would be quite fast). These are probably the easiest.

We need to play vorbis files, so we've got to do it the hard way, which means lots of compiling of source code and tweaking to get things working.

Keep in mind I'm new to this as well, so maybe there are better solutions.