just out of curiosity, what's Nautilus's problem with seeing *.wav's?

[miskatonic]

I can play regular audio CD's with GNOME's CD-player applet, and I can rip it to my drive with GRIP, but what's Nautilus's problem with seeing .WAV files? Just a curiosity.....

[trilarian]

I can see wav's fine. Have you tried different cd's? Some cd's are making a poor attempt at making a copy protection by hiding or masking the wav files.

[miskatonic]

yah, tried all kinds of audio CD's, old ones, new ones, ones with xtra bonus movies or stuff on em....it can see the other stuff, the bonus whatnot (if the CD has it), but it just tells me that 'Nautilus has no application capable of viewing...' yadda yadda yadda....

[zdude255]

You have to configure Nautilus to use the right program for wavs when you open them.

I use mplayer, but use gmplayer if you need a GUI

You could just encode them to ogg.

oggenc *.wav

That'll save HD space too, ogg format is not lossy, so as long as you have a decent CPU they'll play perfectly.

[trilarian]

Originally posted by miskatonic
yah, tried all kinds of audio CD's, old ones, new ones, ones with xtra bonus movies or stuff on em....it can see the other stuff, the bonus whatnot (if the CD has it), but it just tells me that 'Nautilus has no application capable of viewing...' yadda yadda yadda....


Ah...I see the prob. I thought you meant you could not "see" the wav files at all, not just not able to "open" them. As stated above you need to associate a program with wav's. I use xmms(winamp clone). In nautilus right click on the wav file -> open with -> an application. Then put xmms or gmplayer into the 'command' box.