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| 308252 | 2004-12-28 09:49:00 | Over christmas i have being given an older computer. The specs as follows Amd 400mhz processor 128 mb sd ram 8 gig hard drive win modem onboard sound Ati onboard video I was wondering to make good use of the older computer if i could turn it into a mp3 server. Which in turn i can hook up to our home network. Which at the moment has 1 computer running Win xp home another computer running Win Me and the last computer running Win 98. All 3 computers access the internet via a very old computer which is running smoothwall. If it is possible please could someone tell how i go about this and which would be the best distro to use for this job. Thanks in advance for any help. |
Glassman (5101) | ||
| 308253 | 2004-12-28 10:32:00 | Maybe you should check out Dynebolic. It's a multimedia-based distro. Designed for audio/midi/vids etc. You could even setup your own shoutcast server if you wanted. It usually runs as a live cd though and I'm not that sure if it can be installed to hd easily. http://www.dynebolic.org/ |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 308254 | 2004-12-28 10:46:00 | Any distro will do the job :-) Dynebolic is good, being Live. I like Gentoo because its minimalistic.... a Stage 3 install with Genkernel will have you up and running in no time at all! Fedora/Knoppix/Yoper/Ark may be better being more end-user friendly. Fedora however doesnt come with xmms-mp3 playback by default, however what you _really_ want is mpg123 or mpd (mp3 daemon) running and you can control it via ssh (secure shell... or in a nutshell encrypted telnet). Take your pick, almost anything will do..... Id roll with Dynebolic because of its multimedia base though :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 308255 | 2004-12-28 22:55:00 | Over christmas i have being given an older computer. The specs as follows Amd 400mhz processor 128 mb sd ram 8 gig hard drive win modem onboard sound Ati onboard video I was wondering to make good use of the older computer if i could turn it into a mp3 server. Which in turn i can hook up to our home network. Which at the moment has 1 computer running Win xp home another computer running Win Me and the last computer running Win 98. All 3 computers access the internet via a very old computer which is running smoothwall. If it is possible please could someone tell how i go about this and which would be the best distro to use for this job. Thanks in advance for any help. I'm not sure what you are trying to do here... Are you trying to make mp3s available to your other computers from your server, or are you trying to set it up so your other computers can tell your server what to pump into your home audio system? I had a Linux computer with no sound card that made several thousand mp3s available to my windows machine that played them in the office. This was simply a matter of running Samba. It worked better than the windows machine playing its own files, as whenever i did anything else on the windows box the playback of local files would break up. If you are setting it up so the mp3 server supplys sound to the household audio system, with other computers simply manipulating a playlist, or whatever, then i for one would be very keen to know exactly how you do this, and how well it works. :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 308256 | 2004-12-29 00:57:00 | Install Gentoo, then: emerge screen emerge openssh emerge mpg123 From there run: screen mpg123 playlistname Ctrl +A + D Basically from there you can reconnect to the "Screen" session and manipulate it. There are other 'better' command-line players thou. Anything P60Mhz w/8MB Ram upwards would suffice for that! Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 308257 | 2004-12-29 09:09:00 | I'm not sure what you are trying to do here... Are you trying to make mp3s available to your other computers from your server, or are you trying to set it up so your other computers can tell your server what to pump into your home audio system? I had a Linux computer with no sound card that made several thousand mp3s available to my windows machine that played them in the office. This was simply a matter of running Samba. It worked better than the windows machine playing its own files, as whenever i did anything else on the windows box the playback of local files would break up. If you are setting it up so the mp3 server supplys sound to the household audio system, with other computers simply manipulating a playlist, or whatever, then i for one would be very keen to know exactly how you do this, and how well it works. :D Yes you are right i am trying to set up a linux based mp3 server so that we can listen to them on the other computers on my home network. Please could you explain more about how you used Samba in your setup. Thanks for your help. |
Glassman (5101) | ||
| 308258 | 2004-12-29 10:29:00 | Yes you are right i am trying to set up a linux based mp3 server so that we can listen to them on the other computers on my home network. Please could you explain more about how you used Samba in your setup. Thanks for your help. OK, at this point it becomes allmost irrelevant that it is mp3s that are being filed, because the *nix box is not doing anything more than the light dutys of file serving. It could be video clips, mp3s, or shared documents and pictures. It wont matter in the least to the *nix box In my case i had a bit of room on the hard drive, and a dedicated partition for that sort of thing, and within that partition, i had a folder called "music". I simply declared the entire partition a samba share that required no passwords or anything complex, and told my windows box (vanessa) to look into the share on the *nix box (sam) Having mapped sams samba share on the windows box as a drive ("s" if i remember right) winamp played it as if it was a local file. S\music\band_name\whatever.mp3 played like a local file, same with S\vids\whatever Vanessa had a big screen and a sound card. Sam had 120+80 GB of HDD It is obvious why i chose this system for this network. Setting up samba with a modern distribution is rather easy. I note that you dont have a lot of HDD there, and i would be tempted to get another drive from somewhere, and set up your samba share on a dedicated second drive. My mp3 collection at one stage was over 45GB, so the idea of sqeezing a few mp3s on half of an 8GB drive sends shivers down my spine. Perhaps someone with more experiance than i with the various flavours of the nix out there could advise which flavour would be best for this job? :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 308259 | 2004-12-29 10:48:00 | Gentoo or Vector, depending on how simple you want your installation to be :-) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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