On 11/30/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, I'm in the process of a OSS project to build a standalone > mp3/AAC/mp4/ogg/CD-Audio player, and its coming along nicely (well, it > plays music - just need to sort out the LCD display + keypad, and I have > not had much time to work on it lately). > > But that isn't done yet, so I can't recommend you use it just yet ;-) > > Currently (until the project is finished) what I did was to build an > embedded system using the ESounD Daemon. > > Basically its an old 75Mhz laptop, with 8 mb ram, a pcmcia wifi card > (atheros chipset) and a 16 bit soundcard. The custom distro initialises > the sound and wifi card, connects to my wireless network > and sets up a sound server. I can connect to it from any PC on the > network and stream it music. This way me (and the rest of my family) can > use their own computers (and the players they know) and stream music to > the server, which is permanently connected to the HI-FI.
huh, this is very interesting. I would love to get the .img file -- not exactly sure what a .img file is, but I have used files with this extension to start up qemu so I assumethis is some kind of disk image... At the least itwould be something to referto as Im building this up. The laptop I m looking at is considerably more powerful & the system I was thinking of is somewhat less ambitious -- the streaming probably isnt so important, though it would be lots of fun to implement. But Id like very much to seewhat youve done! > > Oh, and the distro fits on a 16mb CF card (it can fit in less, i'm > saying about 4 meg, but I dont have a smaller CF card). > > If you want I can send you the .img file for my sound server (but just > to tell you, some work will be required for configuration, probably > changing the ESSID/IP Addr of the network, and possibly a kernel > recompile for your wifi-card). shouldnt be so hard, from the sound of it. > > If on the other hand, you want to use a standard distro, have a look at > the ESD webpage > (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html). It hasn't been updated in a > while, but the program has so far worked flawlessly. Just install that > on your base distro and configure it - you will need a client-side > plugin for it though, Most linux audio software supports it (i know > there is a plugin for xmms) and i believe (but cannot confirm) that > there exists a winamp plugin for it as well. > I think I wiill veyr likely use esd, thanks! > Hope this reply was of any use :-) > very interesting in any case! matt
