How to play audio tracks?

javierdelfaro · January 8, 2019, 4:24pm

Hi there.

I am interested in playing a song and play bass over it, for practicing with earphones. Can this be done?

Giedrius · January 8, 2019, 10:04pm

Hey, yes, but not via MODEP GUI - you should be able to use a command line utility like mplayer to start playback of a media file, make sure to configure such utility to use the JACK backend, so the audio is mixed together with MODEP audio.

You can either start the utility manually via ssh, or script The Button to start playing the song.

anon86906493 · January 22, 2019, 9:40am

Playing an audio file via terminal (i.e. via SSH is super easy).
If it’s a standard wav file, you usually just type

aplay filename.wav

Giedrius · January 22, 2019, 12:15pm

aplay is definitely a useful utility for audio playback via ALSA, but in order to play an audio file while still using MODEP, some utility compatible with JACK backend must be used.