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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:31:50 -0700
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
Cc:        Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Car Mp3 Player
Message-ID:  <369AB416.642B24BC@plutotech.com>
References:  <4.1.19990111182426.00a9ac60@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990111211327.00a29ee0@genesis.ispace.com>

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> Right, I'm just curious if anyone's tried to do this with FreeBSD.

Not in my car, no.

But in my home, yes.  The machine room (well, machine closet is more
accurate), has a rack with my main fileserver in it, which recently got
a sound card installed into it.  I've been using "tosha" (in the ports
collection) to "rip" the data off audio CDs and saving them to disk. 
I'm using "sox" to convert the raw PCM data into .wav format.  And I'm
using the 8hz MP3 encoder (see http://www.8hz.com) to encode them.  8hz
provides a FreeBSD binary of their encoder free of charge.

Finally, the machine closet also contains my amplifier and equalizer,
which takes the outputs from the soundcard.  I use mpg123 (also in the
ports collection) to play the MP3 files (located in
/usr/local/share/mpeg, of course) to play them out, using Luigi's sound
driver.

Wiring into the various rooms' speakers provides the sound!  And it's
100% FreeBSD.  :-)

--Sean

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