Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via
> apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem.
> It has no volume control.
I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd
player but if you see lack of volume control as a problem there is
always the option of installing a mixer program. To mention several
packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster
can play cd's and comes with nmixer; I use alsamixer. All do rather
more than control the sound volume of a cd.
> Anyway, I did a bit of snooping around and came across this:
>
> http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/derouler/info/workbone/index.html.en
>
> That is the same player, but with the + and - keys set to provide
> volume control.
Just tried this. The + key increases the volume but doesn't take the
output to a very high level. Your experience may be different.
> I downloaded it and uncompressed it, but now, how do I actually
> install it?
>
> The files that are now sitting in my home directory after
> uncompressing the tgz file are:
>
> hardware.c
> workbone
> workbone.h
> struct.h
> workbone.c
>
> So, what does I have to do with these to get a working player? The
> site the tgz file was downloaded from has no instructions on how to
> install this.
Install the file workbone somewhere in your home directory and run it
from there. Or you could use /usr/local/bin.
Brian.
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