From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Dec 23 12:27:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE5937B405 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.qc.uunet.ca (mail1.qc.uunet.ca [198.168.54.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454FE43EF1 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anarcat@espresso-com.com) Received: from xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com ([216.94.147.57]) by mail1.qc.uunet.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gBNKRYZ15506; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:27:34 -0500 Received: from anarcat by xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18QZAl-0001C5-00; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:27:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:27:35 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: "Douglas K. Rand" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home MP3 juke-box Message-ID: <20021223202735.GC3308@xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Douglas K. Rand" , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <87el88347p.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87el88347p.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just setup a mp3 box for the dining room here so I could give you a few hints. First off, you don't need that much processing power. The box I setup is a very crappy pentium 166. I had to throw in extra RAM in order to run X properly (64M), but apart from that, the box was ok. I had a spare AWE SoundBlaster lying around which is perfect for the task. Just to give you a rough idea, I think it could be possible to stream audio to 2 cards using such a box since XMMS uses around 40% of the CPU decoding one stream. You have some plugins for XMMS that enable it to use infrared remote controls but I'm not sure the level of support those have on fbsd. See xmms.org for more details. For the CD ripping part, I suggest using Grip + ATAPICAM (if you're using IDE CDROMs), it can be configured to automatically rip cds on insertion. As for the web interface, I think you'll have to code some stuff up yourself since I don't know what software is available there. But you could setup some kind of .pls (or .m3u) playlist generator that would feed this to xmms. But why use the web when you can avoid it?! :) There's been some discussions over -stable about some tiny fanless PCs that you might be interested in too. Cheers, A. On Mon Dec 23, 2002 at 01:50:02PM -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > I'm building a Xmas present for a friend who is about done building a > new house. (OK, so I'm not gonna have it done by Xmas. :)) > > I'm thinking about a FreeBSD box with a few audio cards (to drive > different audio "zones") that would play either (or both) MP3 and Ogg > Vorbis files. It should be controllable from a remote of some kind, > such as X10, or something else. A web interface to make and customize > play lists would be nice too. > > And it should also able to rip and encode CDs. If that is as easy as > inserting a CD, great. Or having to do that via the web interface, or > even the console would be acceptable. > > I'm looking for advice on the different parts for this, both hardware > and software. What audio cards should I consider? How much CPU do I > need? And what software to tie all this together with? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message