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    Which Linux for networked mp3 jukebox?

    We've managed to aquire a low spec PC (cele 400 with 128mb ram, 80gb hdd) from my mates work.

    I want to put it in our front room to play music off the local HDD & Network Shares.

    Which Distro would be best? Any issues I may have?

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    Pretty much pick your distro - how will you be accessing the jukebox? Will it be headless, and accessed from a web interface, or will you have a monitor to select your songs?

    EDIT - just as an aside I've been looking around and mp3act looks pretty good as a streaming MP3 server - all it requires is a linux machine with Apache, PHP and MySQL (which a lot of modern distros will package in at install if you ask nicely) and you're up and running. I may even look into building a small box for this myself...
    Last edited by Splash; 07-09-2006 at 09:59 AM.

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    Its going to have a kb/mouse/screen.

    I mianly wondered which distros have a decent mp3 player installed? Or which one is a good one to use?

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    very few will have an mp3 player out of the box, as Thomson actively protect their patents, and charge cashpounds for licenses to their patents.

    for most it's fairly easy to get mp3 support going though, e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

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    Question - would a stand-alone NAS box run anything of this sort?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidM
    Question - would a stand-alone NAS box run anything of this sort?
    depends if it can run linux.

    you'd be fine using (for example) the linksys NSLU2

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    I used to have a Buffalo NAS drive holding all my mp3's. I used a little netgear wireless mp3 player thingy to play it all, aswell as iTunes on my main PC's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    for most it's fairly easy to get mp3 support going though, e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
    Thanks for that link

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidM
    Question - would a stand-alone NAS box run anything of this sort?
    Its not a NAS box, your thinking of it the other way around.

    We want the box to connect to other network shares and play the mp3s from them, or the ones ripped onto its harddrive.

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