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On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:49:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

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> > > I want to click on icons for mp3 and wave files and get sound. If I'm

> > > running jack, I need to start alsaplayer one way, and if I'm not I need

> > > to start alsaplayer another way. Therefore my file associations have to

> > > change, based on whether jack is running or not. Not good.

> >

> > Try creating a shell script, eg /usr/local/bin/run-alsaplayer:

> >

> > ---- cut -----

> > #!

> > alsaplayer -o jack $* || alsaplayer $*

As someone pointed out, this is wrong, it should be "$@", sorry, I didn;t

test it before posting.
> 2) It doesn't fall back to alsa if jack is not running. I tried changing

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> the script to -o alsa, but that didn't work. Trying it from the command

> line it complains about jack not running:

Thats because your alsaplayer is broken w.r.t the ALSA drivers. Mine is

too.
- Steve