>> My CD changer isn't realy a CD-Changer, but rather a CD-Jukebox with
680
>> Slots and 4 drives, controlled by a SUN Solaris box, and I can
connect
>> to it via NFS or SMB. So basically I just mount a huge drive filled
>> with mp3's... The SUN Solaris box is running a Jukebox software,
that
>> is able to cache loaded files, but ofcause not all the files, so you
>> might run into a file that needs to be fetched from the cd-slot into
the
>> drive, and this takes about 5-10 secs, before I have any data...
>Do you actually need to tell the changer to pull in a specific disk, or
>does the changer do that automatically when you access a specfic branch
>of the filesystem? If the changer does it automatically there should be
>no need to make any changes to obs, and just mount everything over NFS.
The SUN Box controls the Jukebox robotics, and I'm just presented with a
filesystem. If I try to copy a file that is not in the SUN Box's cache,
I will have to wait until it has fetched the CD, and loaded the file
into cache. This can take some time, and therefore it would be nice if
OBS could treat the NFS mount as a CD-Changer, and load the files onto
the local harddisk of the OBS server, and play them from there, that way
I don't get any gabs in my music stream, what switching from tune to
tune...
>> What I would like, was for the OBS to treat my NFS mounted drive just
as
>> a CD-Changer, but there is no need to send any change-cd commands...
>Just make sure you have a root Volume file for the CD changer and
things
>should be fine. You probably also want to make sure that the MP3 files
>have good clean ID3 tags before you burn them to the CDs that you stack
>into the CD changer. That will make life easier.
I have ID3 tags on everything, if I had not, it would be impossible to
manage 500 CD's with MP3 ;-)
Regards,
Heino Walther
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