Hi,

I am running audacious 1.5.0 and the matching plugins for Slackware 12.1. This does not feature Musepack support. Does anybody know of a plugin to enable this? BTW Audacious site seems dead at the moment?

Edit: Certainly easy enough to do in XMMS which I picked up from slackware -current + xmms-musepack-1.2.1. Hmmmm.... might even be worth a change to xmms?

Andrew

I've been running the debian package of Audacious for ages and it's always had the musepack plugin. It's part of the default install.

Hi David:

I managed to solve this perplexing little problem by re-compiling the audacious-plugin pack in the presence of the musepack headers and this automatically enabled the installation of the musepack plugin in this pack.

Mostly I love Slackware but sometimes I could kick it in the shins for forcing me to think so much :-).

BTW if you are interested in Musepack you may be interested in the Musepack sections of my recently rewritten abcde page, the motivation for me to try to use audacious with mpc:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html

Andrew

i would advise you to try rubyripper instead.
abcde works but is not maintained for years. rubyripper is featureful.
btw i just updated the slackbuild since there is a new version out. only thing changed is version number and md5sum in the .info file

Hi sakho:

Thanks for that, although I note that Rubyripper does not support Musepack? I have also actually just submitted a script to slackbuilds.org for mppenc by which means users of abcde can convert to Musepack, it works beautifully with abcde which I will have to admit seems to be between maintainers at the moment.

Andrew

It seems it doesnt. :/
Most people care about flac. There is an "other" option but havent really bothered with it. You could always make a feature request on the issues tracker on googlecode.

Naw, I have no need for Musepack. I encode almost exclusively to vorbis and flac. I see no real need to mess around with new formats when these two do the job just fine. I do have one downloaded album in .mpc format, but I got tired of the incompatibility issues I kept experiencing with the files (in particular a bizarre problem with accessing them over my nfs share), and converted them to .ogg format for regular use.

Frankly, I wish the computing world would just hurry up and settle on one or two decent open-standard multimedia formats, and quit throwing us all these different attempts to reinvent the wheel. But to each his own, I guess.