Linux with a specal mp3 player question

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:33 pm

I want smallest veson of Linux with a mp3 player with will auto boot on startup and start playing mp3's from a specifyed folder and you can cycle up and down through the songs with 2 keys or the mouse buttons

how would I go about makeing that happen?

differint OS would be ok also

made up guy wrote:this is not realy related to portabliseing

sure about that?

jellywerker · Post by **jellywerker** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:51 pm

hmm, you could make your own... or hack slackware or archlinux, so it has an mp3 player app, then write some scripts and such to make it play automatically, and link the forward and back controlls to up and down or left and right, this is for an old junk pc I assume?

Post by **Triton** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:30 pm

carpc mebe?

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:55 pm

differint OS would be ok also

I did this back in the day with DOS. If the audio card you intend to use is fully DOS compatable and capable (ie ISA based), I'll dig through my bookmarks and see if I can refind the programs to playback MP3s.

Check out this old link (i.e. most links are dead) for both Linux and DOS based players:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/mp3.html#Players

Check out this if you want more than just MP3:
http://movix.sourceforge.net/

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:37 pm

tom61 wrote:I did this back in the day with DOS.

tell me how to do it

keep in mind im dumber than I way seem at times

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:05 pm

Movix would be the best idea. Its small enough to fit in things like a CF card, USB drive, or use it in CD/DVD.

Check it out here

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:10 pm

need to tern computer into mp3 player so I need a mp3 player to auto boot on start up (I dont know how to do that)

then I need it to auto start a playlist or simmaler (dont know how to do that)

and I need it to be controlled with few buttons without needing to look at a screen (dont know how to do that ether)

thanks,

and I would prefur the oney storage devise to the a hdd im not to conserned with memory useage or disk space I should have plenty

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:13 pm

Ok, you should have at the very least looked at the site. The Movix distros (emovix, movix movix2) all come with Mplayer (which supports mp3) and they have nice documentation about how to make a playlist and make the this work. This means you can install it to the hard drive or use a CD/DVD that will auto boot for you.

Just take a look.

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:16 pm

I did take a look but I will take another look but I wont rely get to play with the os till tomarrow

thanks I will look some more

I have never realy used Linux so a lot of it dose not quite make sence to me just yet

jellywerker · Post by **jellywerker** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:57 pm

seems like linux plus scripting would be the way to go.

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:21 pm

there is just one problem with that I dont know nothin bout Linux startup scripts

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:32 am

Everything is written in bash for those things. I'd say until you learn bash dont do anything to them as bash is a ridiculously hard language to learn.

As I said before the emovix isnt that bad. On the left they have link to a documention page. They tell you about the distro, whats in it, how to make one that contains your A/V files.

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:10 pm

I dont know what your talking about and you know it