Thread: Granule - flashcard program for maemo
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2007-03-30 , 13:35
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Originally Posted by trbloomer View Post
Granule is very cool and looks like it might be just what I´m looking for. I have a question though, can it play wav files on the 770? I use another program on windows that has wave files associated with its language flash cards that are a huge help learning correct pronunciation.

I´ve read the instructions in the manual and realize it can be done on other linux systems but I´m pretty new to linux in general and totaly new to the 770 and am unsure if the sox is part of its install or if it can be installed on the 770.
Yes, you can play audio files on n770 as well. For that, you need to install gst-launch utility which is a part of gstreamer-tools. Enable "red pill" mode in the Application Manager, install gstreamer-tools and that should give you .mp3 playback support.

Then, convert your WAV files to MP3s and put them on n770.

Start Granule, go to the Preferences->sounds and set the sound settings to:

Sound Player: gst-launch
Sound Cmd Args: filesrc location=%.mp3 ! dspmp3sink

Make sure the 'Default Sound Path' is a valid path.

The sound player might be either gst-launch or gst-launch-0.10.

It is not as clean as it could have been with direct gstreamer support by the program, but it works for me. The only thing is you need to pace yourself playing sounds - if they are lengthy clips, make sure you don't start the next one while the previous is still playing. That will hose the gstreamer pipe and leave zombies behind (which the only way to get rid of is with reboot). So, pause before you play the next sound.

hope this helps.