zzzFM fun with PACPL

[Member AVLinux]

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If this hint has already been posted elsewhere or is already part of a proper antiX install please feel free to delete..

PACPL is a perl-based Audio converter that is super light and comes with a built-in Custom Action service menus for KDE, Gnome and XFCE… but the nice thing is the zenity script that these service menus point to is also available in the pacpl Package (pacpl 6.1.2-2 from Debian Bullseye in this case) and we can just use it directly in zzzFM. For this to work you’ll need zzzFM, zenity and pacpl installed and you’ll need to create a File Handler in zzzFM like in the attached screenie. Once finished you have a nice Audio Converter for dozens of formats right in your file manager.

*Note, sorry for double screenshot, can’t seem to delete it in forum ‘Edit’ mode..

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[Member PPC]

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Hi!

I installed the package pacpl (version 6.1.0-1) from the repository -and it seems it did not include any zenity script – I downloaded the source code and found the PACPL-Convert script – since yad is more powerful and included in antiX out of the box, I tried editing the script and replacing “zenity” with “yad” it should work, since both programs are partly compatible… Feel free to try it (and you no longer need zenity to use PACPL via zzzfm, if that works)

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Hi PPC,

I’m on Debian Bullseye here (I guess I should have clarified that) and using pacpl 6.1.2-2 and it installs with all the assets in /usr/share/pacpl/bin by default. I understand about YAD vs. Zenity and write my own utilities with YAD but I was just trying to keep things simple without interfering with what the original (Bullseye) packages provide.

Are you using antiX based on Buster? They must have changed the Debian packaging of pacpl after 6.1.0 to include the zenity scripts..?

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