I have some p120 laptops w/24 megs ram, and they play mp3s just fine
unfortuantely All the laptop hard drives I have are really small ( less than
400 megs) and the mp3s are on cd, not the hard disk
So... Ive only got windows98 running on them right now. I tried to put slack
and mandrake,. but neither installs would install from the cdrom (it does
find the cd during boot, but the install wont find the cd. If I can manage,
Ill have to try a net boot... but thats a hassle and I have to try to make a
system under 300 megs, and I want it to be atleast as nice and usable as the
windows98... which is going to be a lot of work.... I can live with KDE, but
would prefer gnome, and Enlightenment would be the best... but they only have
24 megs ram.... maybe Ill do a LFS thing
They also have IR built into them... Ive gotten them to transfer files back
and forth under windows... but its kinda lame... Id like to do TCP/IP with
the IR if that is possible.
Installing windows98 was pretty easy, Id like to put linux on one, but Im
having some difficulties. I have an adapter to put the laptop hard disks in a
PC, but the pc's arnt detecting the hard disks right... I have a dock
station, so I can use floppy, cdrom, and network all at the same time. I have
current slack and mandrake (well.. I still need disk 3...) I have slow
internet access (28.8) so debian net install isnt really an option.
So... about mp3's.... Ive never really ripped many mp3's but I did setup a
mp3 server for my house a few years ago... I used apache, it worked great.
xmms and winamp have random features, and I used the html playlist features
in winamp... that way I could do many different playlists, leave them on the
server, and load them from anywhere (ie I could load up "work music" and rock
out... then in the evening I could load up "sleep music" to fall asleap to...
back then I found it much easier to download stuff rather than rip it
myself... infact theres a lot more than just music out there... I would
download a bunch of comedy stuff and laugh for hours... I even got stuff for
the kid (stories, such as the hobbit, hitchhikers guide, ...)
I didnt really have any trouble with the mp3 server, I just made the
directories browsable, so we could look at what was there. I also had command
line clients for napster so I could telnet/ssh and add stuff to the
collection, as well as share what I wanted to. It workd very well, Id
recommend it to anyone.
Jamie
On Saturday 12 January 2002 22:22, you wrote:
> 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
