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Originally Posted by fbdev
a suggestion; i think another user hinted at this; is to use kaffeine with kinamp (or the kindle's audio player) so that audio will continue to play while the screensaver is active.
without kaffeine the system will enter standby mode (after about 70 seconds) and audio will stop.
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It took me a while to notice that ^ because I was doing all my testing with the K3 connected to my PC via usbnet and [despite what you've posted elsewhere] my kindle doesn't go into standby when plugged in like that. ALSO, the built-in mp3 player doesn't ever stop playing after my kindle screensaver comes on; it doesn't stop until reaching the end of it's playlist. (This is not the case if I enable the password lock.)
I've setup kaffeine via launchpad with some sh magic... and I'm no stranger to keeping things simple and sticking to UNIX philosophy (i.e. small apps that do one thing well), but in this case I think there's an argument for keeping the standby functionality hard-coded into kinamp, a la v0 or the stock mp3 player. I can work around it by using a script that starts both kaffeine and kinamp though... I'm curious to hear what your ideas in that decision were. I don't have horribly strong feelings one way or the other.
I DO think it would be awesome to add some capability to kaffeine (right after you finished making it simpler *grin*). Namely, the ability to take an optional argument: time. Currently I do this with a launcher script that toggles kaffeine, sleeps for X minutes and then turns it off. I'm fine with that, but this feature seems like a pretty logical next step, depending on how complicated it makes the binary (it is after all pretty easy to implement with a script).
Thanks for reading fbdev!