[ubuntu-uk] Couple of questions...

[Stephen Garton]

Hi Kirrus

Kirrus wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> 2) Wine and Launchers 
> I've installed a program called BibleWorks 4.0, using Wine. It seems to be working, but I can't create a shortcut to it. Here's the problem: 
> It's accessible at: 
> /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe 
> If I open the terminal, go to the "BibleWorks 4.0" directory and then type "wine bworks95.exe" everything runs perfectly. If, however, I type "wine /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BibleWorks\ 4.0/bworks95.exe" - there's a problem. 
> I think it does begin to launch BibleWorks, but the first thing BibleWorks does is open a small window claiming not to be able to find the registration files, and then refusing to go further. 
> The upshot of this is that I don't know how to create a shortcut/launcher to let me launch it without having to go through the whole palava of open-terminal/cd-to-directory/launch-by-hand. 
> Again not a big deal, but if there's something obvious I'm missing... 
> (Kirrus - I thought, could make a shell script to do the cd etc.. but there's got to be a better solution...) 
> 

Have you tried:

wine "/home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe"

i.e. the path and executable within quotations?

> 3) mp3 players. 
> When I used to use Windows, Media Player had this function where you could change the rate at which you could play back mp3 - eg x1 (ie normal speed), x2 (ie double speed), x1.5, x1.8, etc, etc. I used to use this quite often to listen to mp3s of talks and sermons - I find I can often cope with listening at a spead of about x1.5 or x1.8. 
> I'd like to regain this feature. I guess I could try installing Media Player under Wine. But I feel like there must be an Open Source solution - and (philosophically!) I'd be more comfortable going the Open Source route. 
> I've done some Googling, and searching of Synaptic Package Manager, but to no available. 
> Again, not a big deal, but if you have any tips, they would be greatly received... 
> (Kirrus - I've recommended he use Audacity for the short-term, though its not the best for this.) 
> 

mplayer can do this, certainly:

mplayer file.mp3 -speed 1.5

HTH
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Steve Garton
www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk