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        Sound 'hicks' (short interruptions) whenever another task uses I/O.
      </FONT><BR>

      This notably occurs on linux boxen with Creative's Soundblaster
      (what's in a name) Live's. A blunt, but well working, solution is to
      run mp3blaster with high priority (nice level -5 or lower). Only root
      may set a nice-level below 0, so you should either use 'renice' as
      root to set the level, or run mp3blaster as root (at your own risk).

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        How do you get the colours and borders right in an xterm?
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      Run xterm with -fg white -bg black, set your TERM environment variable
      to color_xterm (FreeBSD: xterm-color) and there you go!

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        Mp3blaster compiles, but when I try to play an MP3, it gives a 
        segmentation fault.
       </FONT><BR>

      This happens on old linux systems with gcc-2.7.*.
      Try to recompile with compile flag -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
      (CPPFLAGS="-D__NO_MATH_INLINES" ./configure).

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        Mp3blaster compiles, but it gives a segmentation fault at startup or
        shutdown.
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      Do not link the stdc++ libraries (CXX=gcc ./configure usually
      accomplishes this; if it's a recompile don't forget to delete
      config.cache!).

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        When I play mp3's, the blue playwindow's layout is messed
        up.
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      You probably have ncurses-3 installed on your system. Upgrade 
      ncurses to a recent stable version.

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        I don't want mp3blaster to take up a console or xterm while
        playing.
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      Install <a
      href="http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/"><i>screen</i></a>. Next, run
      screen, run mp3blaster, start a playlist and detach the screen. Now
      you'll have your console all to yourself again!

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