On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, ronan wrote:
>> I agree, it does. Can't transcode _up_ in bitrate and get any benefit. But
>> why archive the FLAC? I've got the CD. If I _did_ archive it, it would
>> probably be on a {C,DV}D-R, whose inks have sucky longevity compared to a
>> no-ink factory-pressed CD.
> To me, the act of ripping 300 CDs is a PITA. I would rather buy an extra hard
> drive, and/or find some off-site storage to store that FLACs, than have to go
> through the effort of re-ripping (unless your 200 CD carousel has a robot arm
> that can load the discs into your CDROM drive?)
>> Any ideas on an interface that doesn't look like something that crawled out
>> of a computer lab? Maybe trawl hackaday.com for ideas?
>>
> Maybe Banshee, or one of the other 'heavy' music players? Would you put a
> monitor on this box, or use a TV?
No TV in there, but doesn't have to be a monitor, I don't think. A 2- or
4-line display, like they used to use on homebrew car MP3 players, would do
the trick. Of course, that's fiddlier than xmms on a monitor. xmms is
tiny, all things considered; in this case, big is good.
> I think MythTV has a module that could do this, but I don't know how well
> it can search/sort such a large collection. BTW, if you run MythTV on your
> "server", you might be able to get away with one of those little no-drive
> wireless media players. These boxes hook-up to your TV,
Only a TV? I can swing one of those miniature monitors for watching movies
in the back of a car (7"?).
> and they browse your server via DNLP. They can be had for as little
> as $70; probably cheaper than hand rolling a Via box. Several manufacturers
> make these: Buffalo, D-Link, Hauppauge, etc. IIRC, the Playstation3 also
> comes with the software to be a DNLP browser.
Later:
> OOps, that should have been DLNA (*Digital Living Network Alliance*), not
> DNLP.
What is DNLA, some kind of stripped-down file sharing protocol? Is a server
available for Linux? I'd rather not make the CD player depend on the
uppedness of my machine and the wireless router...
I was looking at solid state drives. Yeah, they're expensive, crazily so.
So if I want local storage, I'll probably go with a bunch of thumb drives, a
USB hub, and software RAID 5 (? N drives + parity). Looks like smaller
drives are cheaper overall, but I haven't included the cost of the hub(s).
Yeah it's slow, but it's fast enough for this. Don't know how to boot yet.
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