MusicIP Mixer Help - Linux

The MusicIP Mixer runs as a Java-based gui on linux. See below for requirements and limitations.

This distribution was tested on Mandrake 9.2, 10, Redhat 7.x, Redhat 9, Debian 3.0, Suse 9.0 (Glibc 2.2 or higher). If you have problems with these, or any other versions of linux, please let us know.

Requirements

x86 CPU
Java 1.4.0_01 or higher
Internet Access

Make sure your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the directory where Java is installed. Beta versions of Java may cause stability problems.

The MusicIP Mixer currently supports .mp3, .ogg, .flac and .wav files on linux. For more detailed info, visit the revision history page. You may also want to visit the Windows or Mac OS X pages.

If you are using 64 bit linux, you should be able to use the 32 bit binaries, as long as you have the ia32-libs package installed.

Installation

Download and extract the distribution. To run the program, use the MusicMagicMixer command. User information will be stored in the .MusicIP directory under each user's home directory.

Configuration

The MusicIP Mixer is configured to use the following external applications by default:

• Music Player realplay
• File Manager mozilla
• Browser mozilla
• Mail Client mozilla

You can change these from the File/Customize Options menu, under the Applications tab.

If you need to pass a flag to the Java virtual machine, you can prefix the flag with "-J" and pass it to the MusicMagicMixer executable.

Sometimes (e.g. Linux RedHat 7) MusicIP Mixer fails with the following error:
Current locale is not supported
or
Unable to load Strings!

This error happens because some locales are not supported by the Java virtual machine. The easiest way to correct this problem is to set the LANG environment variable to the supported locale: "en" If you are using sh or bash, execute:
export LANG=en

For csh and tcsh execute:
setenv LANG en

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