UADE Frontend

[Nova]

i would like to give uade a try. the website states, audacious (player) can be used as a frontend, but so far i could not get them working together. looking at the plugins settings, uade is missing.

which setting should i look for?


ps: converting exotic mods is my aim, is audacious the recommended frontend (besides xmms) in this matter?

[jbl007]

Hi,
uade hasn't been updated since 2009, while audacious is under active development and plugin API has changed several times. So i doubt that we can get a working plugin for a recent version.
If you only want to convert music, the command line version is the much better choice. You can output .wav files directly:

uade123 music.mod -f music.wav

[Nova]

hi there,

Originally Posted by jbl007

Hi, uade hasn't been updated since 2009, while audacious is under active development and plugin API has changed several times. So i doubt that we can get a working plugin for a recent version.

yes, it seems the latest version of uade is quite dated, but did you ever succeed with uade acting as a plugin? i could not find any hints on this matter, how is this supposed to work after all (when installed from the arch aur)?

Originally Posted by jbl007

If you only want to convert music, the command line version is the much better choice. You can output .wav files directly:

uade123 music.mod -f music.wav

commandline is fine, but as it is quite some mods waiting for conversion, so i would prefer a frontend. deadbeef player is also mentioned to work as a frontend, which would be ideal, as i am already using it. then again, i could not manage to get it recognize uade, too?

has anyone recently found an uade & frontend solution that works (or has an even better native linux suggestion to it)?

[emufan]

did you try to build uade on your own, on your linux box?

next to the standard version here is a quadmode version, based on 2.13.

extract source, ./configure and make. is described on the website.

[jbl007]

Originally Posted by Nova

did you ever succeed with uade acting as a plugin? i could not find any hints on this matter, how is this supposed to work after all (when installed from the arch aur)?

Yes, I used it and it worked. I think, I installed from AUR but I don't remember for sure. The plugin worked like any other input plugin. If you build it, you get a library (*.so) which can be copied to plugins dir /usr/lib/audacious/Input/

commandline is fine, but as it is quite some mods waiting for conversion, so i would prefer a frontend.

You need a little script or one-liner that converts your files in a loop.

deadbeef player is also mentioned to work as a frontend

Haven't found it on the official homepage.

Another solution, compile and install an old version from 2009 of audacious. Sources should still be available. But this could be a pain because of missing/outdated dependencies.

[Nova]

Originally Posted by jbl007

Yes, I used it and it worked. I think, I installed from AUR but I don't remember for sure. The plugin worked like any other input plugin. If you build it, you get a library (*.so) which can be copied to plugins dir /usr/lib/audacious/Input/

ok, many thanks for this hint, need to give it a try

yes, a script would be helpful. (but) perhaps uade123 offers batch conversion out of the box?

here is the deadbeef frontend info that i found. i think it was also mentioned in a forum, but i dont recall the site anymore...


@emufan: no, it is avaiable in the arch user repo, so i went straight forward. thanks for the link.

[Tundrah]

Hi,

FYI I've updated my UADE plugin to support latest Audacious (and UADE), testers welcome

https://github.com/mvtiaine/audacious-uade

Currently you have to build / install it from source.

[Tundrah]

Fixed Linux build and actually tested on Linux as well.