On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:30:59PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: >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.
What I'd like is some sort of cheap device that would go ethernet to dual RCA or mini stereo... So far, the cheapest I've found is to use my previous laptops, when they work... I have 2 Pentium 100 class machines that won't play the 192kbps files. So, one of them I use to run the LED sign, the other is a spare... The one currently at the stereo is Evelyn's old laptop which started freaking out, but is stable enough to do MP3 playing. >I found a few bugs in globecom jukebox. I submitted three bug reports >(they use SourceForge). I've basically spent most of the day It looks like it's ok, I'll have to see about using it... >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! Ahh, I didn't realize that... >Yeah, I was thinking about that. For now, ripped CDs are sitting >on the floor of my office. I have finished 3 CDs. It really helped after about 100 discs, that's for sure... And now I've got 4 drives capable of doing 40x ripping, so it should be pretty easy to go through. Oh, on that note... Circuit City last week had the TDK VeloCD 24x burner, 40x audio ripping drives for $129 with $70 in rebates. $60 for that sort of drive is pretty hard to pass up. I figure with 4 drives it'll be a piece of cake. >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. (-: Yeah, there is that... I figured I'd do two more things this time. One is to check the data and submit updates to stuff that's just totally busted. The other is to go through and verify all music before I consider it completely ripped. At the least, I'd like to check the beginning and end of each song. I have an annoying number that are incomplete. >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. Currently I'm just using the mpg123 random selection. I first started off with 3 of the Sony 200-disc changers and a hardware control unit running off software I wrote. When the music on one changer finished, I'd pause it, unpause one of the others, and then make the first one seek to a new location and pause there... It worked pretty well, but had a few fatal flaws. First, I didn't have an index of which CDs were where, so while I could submit requests for it to play the song on player X, disc Y, track Z, I didn't have a database telling me that Elvis Costello's Dirty Old Bird was on X/Y/Z... The other problem was that the CD changers would sometimes jam up and required that I pull all the discs to get to the mech and clear it up. Anyway, what I found then was that I liked sparse random. Strictly random would sometimes play the same song back to back (a suprising number of times, considering that it had around 5k songs to select from). Or at least it would repeat some songs within a few hours... So, what I did was kept a list of all the available tracks, and randomly selected from them, removing a song from the list after it had played. It took about 2 weeks of running 24x7 to go through the whole list. That worked quite well. I figure a weighting system like globecom has would probably be nice as well. The other thing I really liked that I had was I set it up so that an incoming phone call would pause the jukebox. I really should set that up again. Sean -- "I can sum it up in one word: Indescribable!" -- Gonzo Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
