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- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10What an excellent and detailed guide. They surely seem to favour Debian Linux over at linuxdevices.com (driven not just by hype). Last time it was Rick Lehrbaum who described his adventures with Debian on a ThinkPad.
- cef2268, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I guess he doesn't use his fireplace much.
- bettermentflux, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Really good write-up for the do-it-yourselfer.
- AC73, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5gotta get that comma out of there ;)
http://www.ampache.org/ - jmgibson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You missed the point. This is about rolling your own. What do you learn by buying someone else's mass produced piece of *****?
- sneakerelph, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4this really isn't desktop usage. On Windows you'd probably just be ***** out of luck if you were trying to do this sort of thing.
- Disfnord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4eco-friendly, until you take into account the power needed to run your network storage server 24/7. Why not just make the storage server your music server as well? Then all you need is something that has an audio line out and an Ethernet or wireless connection (ie laptop, tablet, xbox, etc.)
- mancat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I just bought a few cable converters so that I could plug my iPod into the aux port on my receiver. Cost, besides the iPod? About $10.
- thechr0nic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I have a 596.55 GB mp3 server setup in a LAMP configuration.
I have it on a 100 Mb dedicated server, that I can get to from anywhere on the internet. :)
You might look into ampache http://www.ampache.org/, its pretty decent opensource software.
its a pretty looking php interface, for anyone interested in setting up a music server. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Use a Buffalo NAS and a modded XBOX running XBMC. No better combination.
- urgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What ? No UBUNTU ? What is this debain crap and why is this on digg ? Is this one of those stupid MSfied distros ?
(fanboys, come and get me) - ggidster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Brilliant - thanks for posting. One of those things I've been meaning to get around to doing for about 4 years.....
- martalli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I did something very similar with mpd (www.musicpd.org) and an old 400mhz dell that was sitting around for our phone system's music on hold. I know that asterisk can play music on hold natively...but my partners insisted on a proprietary solution for our phone system. Not quite as slick as the article's setup, but it worked great. All great examples of how linux is the ultimate system for tinkering...and real solutions.
- Anonymous3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That is one expensive (but cool, I just checked elsewhere what that things it can do) remote!
- AnalogAssassin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2As a DIY electronics tinkerer/musician, I like the spirit of the article, but really, all that work to listen to a lossy format?
- gadgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The setup works fine with Wavs or flac or whatever you can find a codec for --Henry
- sterling1989, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Or you could buy a Squeezebox for $300 and just download the open source server software on a live cd.
http://www.slimdevices.com
http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=763 - Wargalas, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I'm going to have to ask you to leave digg.com for that comment. :)
- nirav72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Cool article. However, that monitor sitting in front wouldn't pass the WAF. (Wife Acceptance Factor). I'd get rid of the monitor and just use the Nokia tablet.
- sneakywombat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This is actually way better...it's been on digg in the past:
http://devices.natetrue.com/musicap/
The difference is that it's smaller, and only about $30 instead of $600~. Oh yeah, you can hide it behind stuff a lot easier than you could a PC. :) - Deathshead1941, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5I did the same thing by just using my Sony PSP running pimpstreamer (www.pimpware.org)
who the hell wants to spend $600 to play mp3s? Also, bigdeal look at that getup in front of the guys fireplace, just get an old laptop.....makes no sense. - Ugoff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I need a music server. I already filled up over half of my 500 GB external HDD.
- wirelesshnic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Geexbox works well if you are streaming media. The interface isnt exactly eyecandy but it is getting better....
- keithmcbride, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or maybe he meant to hack the appleTV to do these sorts of things.
look it up. people have installed all sorts of things on the appleTV, including bootable OSX - wattersm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why not just get an Xbox and mod it? It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than $600.
- neodorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's pretty sweet. A little pricey but you are getting that small, silent, relatively powerful setup. For the time being, something like that is a little out of my range, but I do similar things with old desktops as I'm sure plenty on here do also.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Rhapsody???
- saftaplan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No it isn't.
- nirav72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For all the windows people..there is http://www.ajaxamp.com/ . A WinAmp plugin that runs a tiny webserver to allow you to control winamp.
- Spr0k3t, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Very slick. I'm thinking about similar with a carputer. Should be nice once it's done.
- urgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1mpd is great. have it on a pentium 233 laptop with 32Mb of RAM. It's an hell of a alarm clock.
- wattersm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Probably because they wanted to keep the noise from the NAS isolated. You can always buy a cheap PC and throw a couple hard drives in using software RAID or hardware RAID, the cost isn't that much more.
- rotten777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Make sure you check the storage size of this before you go through with it. 4GB isn't much homie!
- compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1excellent article. I've built myself a streaming media server using ubuntu and my old desktop ( couldn't bear to part with her too much work and time into it and it still runs great and has dual boot ubuntu xp pro although xp is only used if wanting to do some changes to the NTFS drive)
- awp0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Funny how this page shows an ad for the Sonos system, which is exactly where I'd send my $600 (well before building a mini-itx box).
- addicted68098, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I want to build one of these, since I buy too much music.
But I also want to buy a vintage CD player, Receiver, and a Turntable, - Disfnord, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2You know they have NTFS drivers for Linux now, right? Working ones, with read and write support?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think the naysayers are forgetting that he did this specifically as a project. Yes, he could have bought a myriad of commercial products, but the fun was obviously in putting the project together, collecting the parts, installing Debian, hacking up some code to fix any issues, and general troubleshooting. Sounds like he had a lot of fun!
- underthelinux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I would love to see this same tutorial with an added section about mythtv and appropriate hardware. Seems to me if i've got this system close to my tv/stereo, a mythbox would be a logical add-on.
- jacquesm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0much better way of doing this: http://mxchg.com/
- archer75, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Plug ipod into stereo. Done. My music server is greater than yours.
- Litespeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I used WAWI for a while although development seems to have stalled now.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Excellent, looking forward to doing something like this in the future.
- cran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I'm so sick of building my own PCs. Bleah.
- Litespeed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0No, you'd just slap Winamp and AjaxAMP on it and you'd be away laughing.
- SteveTheSultan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Sounds like windows media player would work just as well
- jdzz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I wonder how this will stack up to linuxmce.
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- pyrates, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1FTA:
In a nutshell, for Debian 4.0 at least, you first have to install gcc and the complete Linux kernel source code tree and headers corresponding to the version in your system, patch up the Linux tree with various binary files, carefully edit several source code files, and then build new snd_hda_intel and snd_hda_codec modules with the Linux source code tree.
And some people say linux is ready for the desktop. - mightyzug, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2nice article, but you could just get a mac mini to do it cheaper and just as well
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