Console mp3 player, single process, thunar custom command... [SOLVED]

Couldn't come up with a better topic title. Sorry.
Anyways, I'm having a bit of a problem with console mp3 players.
I want to use Thunar (I use XFCE4) to start mp3 files just by clicking on them. That's simple to fix.
What I'm having a problem with though, is having the player start another song when I click on another.
Mplayer and various others just start another process, which is not what I want.
And some others queue up the songs, which isn't what I want either.
And those that actually can do that, they can't play the song on repeat, so that doesn't work for me either.
I've tried every console player in all repositories I could find, none did what I wanted. So I've thought about two perhaps possible solutions. First is using killall to close the player and start it again. But Thunar's "open with" commands can't handle operators as far as I've seen. Maybe calling a bash script would be possible, but can it use %f from thunar? Though, I know nothing about scripting, so I can't really fix that on my own. The second solution is using XMMS or any other GUI player which I know all those functions work in, but hiding the interface, can that be done?
Summary:
I want to use thunar to start playing mp3 files in the background, easily switching to another song by clicking on another.
Greatly appreciated if someone can find a solution to my problem.
Last edited by Aziere (2007-03-18 09:20:11)

How about a script? I do not know thunar, but it should give your script a list of files you selected. For a player I suggest cmus, which can be controlled externally via cmus-remote. So, write down a script like
if [ cmus_is_not_running ]; then
cmus --do_what_you_want
else
cmus-remote --do_what_you_want
done
I believe there are many other players which can be controlled from external.

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Hmm. I see that the spaces have been chopped out in part of my first post, and it appears that I cannot edit it.
For clarity's sake, these are the Artists' names, in the partial listing for Ordered by Artist example in my previous post:
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While I appreciate and understand the intention of the thread, this is not a suitable place to discuss non-Creative products. This forum was intended for discussion of Creative headphones, headsets and earphones.
Cat

Hello, Can anyone tell me...if I purchase a music album from the iTunes Music Store, can I download these onto an ordinary mp3 Player, or does it have to have the Apple OS system , i.e. the ipod?

Hello,
Can anyone tell me....am I able to download music purchased from iTunes store onto a non-apple mp3 device, OR NOT?
I am relatively new to Apple , so am fairly new to the system!
Thanks!

You can, but you will have to create a new version of the songs that you download from the store (they will be in .m4a format from the store which your MP3 player won't support).
After downloading a song, go into iTunes > Preferences (command-comma) and on the General tab click the 'Import Settings' button and on the next screen change the 'import using' to 'MP3 encoder' (or one of the other options if your MP3 player supports it). To create a MP3 version of your downloaded song(s), select/highlight them in the Music part of your iTunes library, control-click, and on the popup select 'create MP3 version' (the 'MP3' will change depending upon what you've selected as the type on 'import settings' options).
Creating a different version of songs : iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format - Apple Support
You should then be able to copy the music to your MP3 player in the same way as you normally do.

Custom command problems on Mac OS X

I am seeing a problem with custom context commands in our custom connector that is also reproducible with the sample FTP connector shipped with the SDK. I am using Adobe Drive 3.2.0.41 on Mac OS X 10.8.2
For my test I am connecting to a FTP server and attempting to run the "File Properties" command from a file's Adobe Drive menu in Finder. When I first start Drive and connect, the command works and the "File Properties" dialog appears as expected. However, if I disconnect, reconnect, then browse back to the file and attempt the command again, the File Properties dialog does not appear. The Finder window does kind of "grey out" as if another dialog is about to be shown, but it never is. I don't see any kind of error messages in the CS5ServiceManager logs.
If I disconnect, close Drive, kill the AdobeDriveCS5 and CS5ServiceManager processes with Activity Monitor, and then restart Drive and reconnect, the custom commands work again.
Has anyone else experienced these kinds of problems with custom commands on Mac OS after a disconnect/reconnect cycle?
Thanks,
Brian

Our only other environment we could set up was on Mac OS 10.7.5, and we could not reproduce the issue. Based on that it would appear to be something new with Mac OS 10.8.

[solved] Can't mount Samsung YP-U3 mp3 player

Hi all,
I have a Samsung YP-U3 mp3 player, which currently I can't use as it won't mount. I've spend a while trying to figure this out, so any help is appreciated!
EDIT: I don't wish to use Amarok etc. Also I've tried mtpfs, but it doesn't show any of the actual files. I'm trying go-mtpfs, but can't install it. I get the following response from yaourt:
==> Starting build()...
github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs (download)
cd .
git clone https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs /tmp/yaourt-tmp-archimedes/aur-go-mtpfs-git/src/src/github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
# cd .; git clone https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs /tmp/yaourt-tmp-archimedes/aur-go-mtpfs-git/src/src/github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
package github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs: exec: "git": executable file not found in $PATH
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build go-mtpfs-git.
for this PKGBUILD https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/go/g … t/PKGBUILD
Some info:
Media player says "Connected, Fully charged (or charging)" for ten seconds or so, and then lights go out.
It isn't in /run/media/user/.
It doesn't show up with fdisk, but does with lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:507d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd YP-U3 (mtp)
This is the result of mtp-detect:
$ mtp-detect
Error: Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading.
libmtp version: 1.1.5
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=507d) is a Samsung YP-U3.
Found 1 device(s):
Samsung: YP-U3 (04e8:507d) @ bus 1, dev 3
Attempting to connect device(s)
USB low-level info:
Interface has a kernel driver attached.
bcdUSB: 512
bDeviceClass: 0
bDeviceSubClass: 0
bDeviceProtocol: 0
idVendor: 04e8
idProduct: 507d
IN endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes
OUT endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes
Raw device info:
Bus location: 1
Device number: 3
Device entry info:
Vendor: Samsung
Vendor id: 0x04e8
Product: YP-U3
Vendor id: 0x507d
Device flags: 0x00000002
And mtp-connect
sudo mtp-connect
Error: Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading.
libmtp version: 1.1.5
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=507d) is a Samsung YP-U3.
Usage: connect <command1> <command2>
Commands: --delete [filename]
--sendfile [source] [destination]
--sendtrack [source] [destination]
--getfile [source] [destination]
--newfolder [foldername]
Finally, I tried this http://lobzang.free.fr/tip005.html but it didn't seem to work.
Cheers!
Last edited by ianhoolihan (2012-10-28 20:16:23)

Solved.
Firstly, I didn't have git installed. When I did, I could install go-mtpfs, which does a little better than mtpfs by the looks of things.

Flash mp3 player HELP!!!

i am tying to add a flash mp3 player to my blog posts to have samples of the scores on each page using this:
http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/embed-a-free-flash-mp3-player-on-your-blog/
the code i have is this:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="170"
data="http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/MusicPlayerExample/xspfplayer.swf?playlisturl=http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/MusicPlayerExample/playlist.xspf">
<param name="movie"
value="http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/MusicPlayerExample/xspfplayer.swf?playlisturl=http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/MusicPlayerExample/playlist.xspf" />
</object>
i am tying to get it in the blank empty space on the right above the track listing and to the right of the cover as seen here:
http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/CreditsBlog/Entries/2010/4/1_Die_Jagd_nach_der_heiligen_Lanze_-_OriginalScore.html
as you can see i can only get the player to show up on the left anywhere form the top to the bottom.
please help me in getting it in that empty space mentioned above, thank you and take care!
chris
Message was edited by: MacAVUser08

You should paste the object code in a HTML Snippet.
All your songs and playlist should be in the MusicPlayerExample folder.
And then test that all performs as it should.
If you do that you have no problems.
But you pasted the code in the HTML page itself after publishing. If you do you have to check the path to all the files.
You would have found that there is no file here :
http://web.me.com/cbarrywdw03/KlausBadelt/Credits_Blog/Entries/2010/4/swfobject. js
Rule of thumb : Keep custom stuff out of the Site folder iWeb creates.
I pasted your code in a HTML Snippet and 3 demo MP3s played in the flashplayer. So no problem there.

How can sony claim to not have a comparable replacement for an mp3 player???

I purchased an 8GB mp3 player about 1.5 months ago with my sony rewards points and it was on sale for ~$52. The product turned out to be a complete dud so I returned it and was told it would be replaced since it's under warranty. Now customer service calls to say they don't have a comparable product to replace it with and want to send me a check for $52. How can Sony claim to not be able to replace an 8GB mp3 player?? Ridiculous. It's right there on the website. The product is no longer on sale so I can't go buy a replacement with the $52. Why is Sony trying to weasel out of replacing the product??

DieselDucy, please check your inbox.
dug, your case is not being taken care of.
Sincerely,
Yuri

Rsync/unison to/with mp3-player, problem with permissions

Hi,
I'm trying to sync my music database with my mp3-player via rsync or unison, but both complain about the mp3 being a read-only device (It's detected as a FAT32 harddrive, btw.).
The interesting thing is: It is not mounted read-only. I can copy music onto it just fine via e.g. thunar, only the two sync programs complain.
What could be the problem?

The error messages are variations of:
rsync: chgrp "/media/path/to/file/on/mp3" failed: Read-only file system (30)
Seems like it's permissions-related, so maybe I should get rid of the "keep permissions" option implied in rsync -a. I'll try that and the udev rule, thanks.
Another thing: Unison takes AGES to check for changes (and I do mean ages, ~10s per file). Is that normal?
[edit:]
Another error:
rsync: mkstemp "/media/path/to/file/on/mp3/*.ogg.w7qqip" failed: Read-only file system (30)
I haven't played around with the rsync-options yet. I tried the udev rule though, didn't help. One thing is strange: the rule sets gid=100(=users), but all the dirs/files on the device are <mylogin>:root owned. Shouldn't that be <mylogin>:users?
Last edited by lastchancetosee (2010-05-06 21:05:43)

HELP How to download music from Musicstore to play on MP3 Player

I just bought a okley sunglasses with MP3 Player... How can I buy music in a MP3 format on internet... Apparently the only way to buy/download music from internet on a mac it's with the music store but then it won't allow me to convert it into a MP3 file!!!! Do you have any solutions.. please help me i'm desperate... thanks

There is a workaround.
You have to burn purchased music on Audio CD first, then re-import it in the format of your choice.
If you buy complete albums, this method is economic and you have a backup.
For single purchases this won't be much of a help.
M

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