Interviews At UK Indymedia Network Meeting

None of sounds works on my computer. Just blank. No mp3 starts, nor ogg, Is there sabotage at the sending end, have I had a virus in an email that prevents reception. Can the sound be transformed to text? Is Notts Windows based? Will I have to change to Microsoft to hear what has been said?

Hi Ilyan, I just downloaded all the files and they played fine for me. Just asked a mate of mine and he said all ok his end too. If you weren't already, you could try using VLC media player, it plays everything ;-)

Hi there Ilyan. I'm the person who made the above files.

I was wondering if you could give a few more details such as what type of computer system you are running on (Linux, presumably - same here), what audio system you are using (ALSA, OSS, Jack, Arts etc?), what player application, and also what audio hardware you are using. Versions of those things too, if possible, so I can look into any bugs.

It's possible (though I think pretty unlikely) that if you have a high-end audio card, it may not like the lower sample rate of these files. I encountered something like that once on Linux, but it was a while ago and wasn't a show-stopper - I just needed a different playback program.

Maybe that your player doesn't like variable bitrate files? Or maybe something doesn't work with mono files? (I vaguely remember something like that too, a while back.)

I'm assuming all other aspects of your system relevant to this are known to be working, and that other MP3 files play OK?

The files above work fine here on Amarok and MP3Blaster (console based) using ALSA on Gentoo Linux, but I'm sure should would work just fine in VLC too. The MP3s should also work fine on almost any hardware MP3 player as far as I know.

Players:
 http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
 http://amarok.kde.org/
 http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/

Notts IMC Windows-based? Hardly! ;-)

I run Ubuntu, regularly updated, on an Athlon with one GB of memory and a SATA hard drive. finding Firefox/Thunderbird very flakey, I switched to Opera which is a bit better. I suspect that I need to reload the Ubuntu, have not done so as there are weird things in permissions that prevent me doing a backup to DVD. Probably my lack of jargon understanding. That will take time. I have not been able to get flash to work.

I can happily play the Bougainville video on a CD, see the pictures and hear the fascinating music, and the one on West Papua. Clicking on an ordinary mp3 on a CD automatically brings it up in Sound together with a fancy swirly screen display. Perhaps the system I have in Ubuntu is overdoing things.

Audio system is just what comes out through my Targa Visionary screen. I have just tried an mp3 and it has come up through Totem 2.20.0 Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.14 and GNOME.
......thomasatvirgin.net