Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:36:15 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com> Cc: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Car Mp3 Player Message-ID: <4.1.19990112013323.00aece00@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <369AB416.642B24BC@plutotech.com> References: <4.1.19990111182426.00a9ac60@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990111211327.00a29ee0@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 07:31 PM 1/11/99 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: >> 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. :-) It's people like you which is why we have caffiene as a cash business :-) I used to use a laptop in the car to play mp3s.. Kinda a pain to screw with though.. I did fill out the form at empeg.com though. very bizarre and interesting. Although with discoveries of mp3 decoding chips, you'd think they'd come up with some cheap firmware and supercede the need for the OS. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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