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thorvall
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 Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: Low spec MP3 box, what to install |
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Hi there.
I'm considering using my old computer as a party mp3 player (mp3 in this context, means a compressed audio format), it has the following specifikations
pentium pro 200mhz
64 mb ram
soundblaster 16 - ISA
cirus logic 5430 - PCI
cdreader
6.4 gb HD (if possible only /home on this on, makes a later hd opgrade easiere and makes most room for sound files.
600 mb HD (hopes to be able to have the root system on this one)
required functionality:
Import cds and convert them to mp3 - can this be don on the fly without transfering the CD- wav file to HD?
playing mp3 via an text mode client, with to possibility to change songs, and showing playlist - should be very easy to learn to use.
auto-login of user:music
optional functionality:
importing and playing at the same time - if possible with that cpu
a graphical userinterface - which windowmanager is the most low-rescource
Is mp3 the best format to encode in, are there others which are either better to compress or has lower cpu ussage?
CDDB access - the computer wil not be connected in normal use, but still a nice feature
So to accomplish this, which software to install:idea:
Regards
Thorvall |
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dayul
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Location: Blackpool, England
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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abcde is a nice ripper/encoder, but as far as i know you have to rip to wav first, has CDDB support too.
if you are considering mp3's why not try ogg?
also, mp3blaster is a nice ncurses app to play mp3's
both apps mentioned are command line/ncurses and are fairly low on resources.
i also use openbox and find it to take up little cpu |
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zieloo
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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WindowMaker as the WM:) or a *box (fluxbox), maybe icewm if needs to be easy?
abcde, hmmm cdmp3 is nice, too.
You will find many text based mp3-players browsing the portage tree.
Btw; Are you sure about ripping cds on such a CPU? This will take, ehmmm, very long...? |
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thorvall
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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MP3 vs ogg.
which is less cpu demanding ,at the same music quality
Or phrased and other way, which gives the best quality at he same level of cpu use? |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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As musicplayer.. mpd (daemon). It has a lot of different frontends (textmode/gui whatever).
http://www.musicpd.org |
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zieloo
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| thorvall wrote: | MP3 vs ogg.
which is less cpu demanding ,at the same music quality
Or phrased and other way, which gives the best quality at he same level of cpu use? |
I'd concentrate not on the Ogg vs mp3 problem but on what sound system you're going to use (OSS probably). It's hard to say which of the two is less cpu-demanding, it depends on the bitrates and the files' quality... I'm using arts and it's using ~6% of the CPU time so, hmmm...
Since mp3s are, uhmm, more popular I'd stick with them. |
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voytas
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i'd stay with OGG since IMO it takes less CPU POWER to encode/decode
a have a 233MHz laptop and it plays music files quite well
the only problem is slow graphics, so when i change virtual consoles it pauses the music 
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