05-03-2020, 03:39 PM | #1 |
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Sox Media Player KUAL extension initial release
This is the initial release of the Sox Media Player KUAL extension. It utilizes the bluetooth audio support available in the PW4 and other newer model kindles to play local and internet media. Inspection of some of the audio support files leads me to expect it to work on models with USB audio as well, but I don't have a model to test this on.
Any media Sox knows about should be playable. Note, AAC is NOT supported! See README.txt for further instructions. Dave PS: download updated 12 May 12:18 Last edited by dhdurgee; 05-12-2020 at 12:18 PM. |
05-04-2020, 01:52 AM | #2 |
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Nice & useful extension
Thank you for your effort. Just curious that will it support .m4b file type? It's not that hard to convert .m4b to mp3, but I wnat to check if it's possible. |
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05-05-2020, 09:33 AM | #4 |
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At this point I am wondering if anyone with a USB audio has tried this yet and if it worked for them. I thought to check where Audible is supposed to work and it appears that more Kindles are supported than I expected. See here:
https://audible.custhelp.com/app/ans...indle-devices/ Since it was Audible support that gave me the missing information to get this extension working it might work on a wider range of devices than I thought. Of course if Audible support varies by device this might not hold. So anyone who has this working on a non-bluetooth device let me know. If there is a wide enough range I might need to ask a moderator to add additional tags to this thread. Dave |
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05-05-2020, 05:23 PM | #7 |
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it looks good, but the attachment is missing the sox and soxi binaries
I got them from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...26&postcount=2 It works on a KT4 5.11 Thanks for this. one suggestion: when stopping it might be better to killall sox instead of killall gst-launch-0.10 as this does not break the pipe. |
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05-05-2020, 05:46 PM | #9 |
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It might be a good idea to put the source in a github repo so people can submit changes
A audio player was always something i wanted to have. |
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You can only have a single "title" tag, unlike the thread tags.
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05-05-2020, 09:18 PM | #13 |
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OK. Then I guess pw4 is the most appropriate.
Dave PS: I just noticed the "tags" icon on the right side of the forum thread listing. So both tags show, just not at the beginning of the listing. Last edited by dhdurgee; 05-06-2020 at 12:20 PM. Reason: add postscript |
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omg this is really impressive! I still can't believe that my kindle PW4 is able to play classical music via bluetooth headphones as background music while I read !!! Really really appreciate your hard work in making this feature possible. Do you incline on developing this extension further to incorporate more features? Regardless, this is already extremely impressive and I cannot thank you enough for it
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