[Empeg-general] (Almost) Penguin Heaven

[David T-G]

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Hi, guys --

=2E..and then jimhogan@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org said...
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% Well, I had started to rip/encode mp3s from my CD collection in advance o=
f the unit's arrival using RealJukeBox Plus, which seemed to work well, but=
 seemed to be lacking from a strategic standpoint.   What I desired was a n=
etworked mp3 store that would feed a few players/modes, a la:
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% MP3 STORE ----------------> Desktop
%       |
%        ----------->Empeg (for home/boat)
%       |
%       ---> Laptop (for travel/airplane)
%               |
%                ---> Nomad (short trips)

I love this idea.  It really Makes Sense (TM).


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% Perhaps I missed some possible workarounds, but the tack I took was to bu=
y a cheap 30GB IDE drive, and add it to an existing Linux box that I update=
d with a bunch of stuff (Helix and other general things).   I then installe=
d cdparanoia, lame, along with grip -- a rip/encode front end. Lastly, I in=
stalled MySQL and Digital DJ, a grip playlist add-on.  This machine is set =
up as a Samba server for my Windows desktop and (work) laptop.

Most excellent.


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% Other TO-DOs: get another 30GB drive and an Arco Duplidisk and mirror tha=
t music!

Good idea :-)


=2E..and then Dan Wallach said...
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% If your goal is to have the fastest possible MP3 encoding system, get the=
 fastest dual-processor machine you can afford and get a Plextor CD-ROM dri=
ve.  You can tell grip how many CPUs you've got and it runs that many copie=
s of lame in parallel.  Cool stuff.

In fact, gets lots of machines if you can find 'em :-)

You might be interested in checking out

  http://www.sector13.org/kazin/projects/mp3_encoder.html

for just such an application; Mike has put together a host of Linux
machines at his office and he uses spare cycles on all of them for
encoding.  You should see his collection :-)

I haven't posted this to the bboard, though it is going to empeg-general;
feel free to post it there if you wish, especially if you find it useful.


:-D
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