An update on the home jukebox process: Bob Miller wrote:
> It turns out that you can't really use VBR with icecast (I think). I > did not know that. So either I'll re-rip with CBR or I'll figure out > a way to re-encode on the fly. I was wrong. The shout client is very old and very busted. When I switched over to broadcasting from the jukebox, VBR files started working fine. I found a few bugs in globecom jukebox. I submitted three bug reports (they use SourceForge). I've basically spent most of the day debugging this thing. The encouraging thing is that the project developers have closed most of the other bugs that have been submitted. I also discovered the magic command, "eject -a on". It puts the CD drive into auto-eject mode. Now, as soon as cdparanoia closes the CD-ROM device, the drawer pops open. Coolness! Sean Reifschneider wrote: > Once I ripped a CD, I'd put a little yellow, round, sticker on it that I > got from the local office store. Like the size of a 3-ring binder hole > punch, on the inner ring of the CD. Yeah, I was thinking about that. For now, ripped CDs are sitting on the floor of my office. I have finished 3 CDs. > There were a few problems with this though. First of all, FreeCDDB data > was pretty questionable. Is it ZZ_Top, Zz_Top, or ZZ-Top? Well, yeah... My suggestion is that you only listen to erudite music that appeals to detail oriented, anal-retentive people. (-: It's not ZZ_Top; it's Yo_Yo_Ma. (-: > Another thing I'd probably do is try to normalize the peak level in the wav > files using sox before encoding. Globecom Jukebox does that. Stores a volume parameter in the DB. Uses it to adjust the mixer when playing back. (I don't know whether it adjusts the volume when the output device is icecast -- I suspect not.) Also comes with a standalone program that scans a whole directory and measures the volume of each mp3 and stores the results in the DB. > I usually play by using "mpg123", which can > directly handle reading from an HTTP server, so it's no trouble... Do you have something that selects the next song or album randomly? That's the part I crave -- don't want to think about music, just want it to be there. I've actually done all this before. About 1997, I ripped and encoded 130 jazz CDs on an SGI O2, built a flat-file DB, wrote my own GUI player front end in Perl/Tk. Now the rest of the world has discovered mp3s, and there are much better tools available. So I'm doing it again. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
