Can I play a .MP3 with Squeak?

JohnMaloney at earthlink.net JohnMaloney at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 22 17:47:36 UTC 2002


Richard,

Sounds like the plugin is still not being found by the VM. All plugin files
should be put in the same folder as the VM that you are running. You
may need to quit and restart Squeak to make it find the plugin.

I agree, a better error message is needed.

	-- John


At 5:23 PM -0800 11/21/02, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>I wrote that my attempt to play what I was *told* was a .MP3 file
>using the MPEGplayer failed.  One correspondent suggested that
>the problem was having an old MPEG plugin lying around.
>
>No, I didn't have any MPEG plugin at all.
>
>Another correspondent suggested that the problem was that I *didn't*
>have the MPEG plugin, and indeed I don't.  I would have expected that
>if you try to call something from a plugin that is not available,
>you would be told 'you need the XYZZY plugin for this'.
>
>So I searched for MPEG in the Swiki, found the MPEG plugin .sit file,
>downloaded it, unstuffed it, and tried again.  Same problem
>MPEGFile class>>primFileValidMPEG: aPath
>    <primitive: 'primitiveMPEG3CheckSig' module: Mpeg3Plugin'>
>failed.
>
>The mpeg3Plugin file is 379,499 bytes and has a creation date of
>31 May 2002 and a version of 'Squeak MPEG Plugin V1.3 http://www.squeak.org'.
>
>As for SqueakAmp, it flatly refused to believe that
><root disk>:Desktop folder:
>was a valid folder name.  (It is.)  Is there any reason why SqueakAmp
>doesn't let you navigate up and down the folder structure in the usual way?
>Typing entire file names is not the Macintosh Way.






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