[rox-devel] MusicBox test release (flac & wav support)

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

Hi,

Rainy days in So. Cal. make for no golf and new code!

I just put a test release of MB at http://www.hayber.us/rox/musicbox/MusicBox-021-rc1.tgz
This one has flac and wav support and I'd be interested in hearing how it works for people.

Wav support does not support some formats (I just use the wave module in python), but most of the music I have thrown at it play just fine.  It only seems that the sound effects I stole from my Windows box have trouble (e.g. trash.wav, boink.wav, etc.)

Flac support requires libflac and you have to build the module in the flac subdir.  Just type 'make' in that folder.  This python module is only 0.0.1 and the original does not seem to exist anymore.  Debian users _may_ have a package of this module.  If so, just delete or rename the flac folder (I hope).  Seek works not at all with flac due to the inordinate strangeness of this codec/library :)  Later I will add tag/comment support, but only filename guessing is currently working.

While searching for aac support for python I found PyMedia.org and may look into converting all MB audio support to that if it checks out.


Other tweaks:
	Menu key support from Rds, for those with evil keyboards.
	Mixer device configuration option for those with /dev/sound/mixer or suchlike


Feedback appreciated as always.

Ken