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October 03, 2005
Hacking the midnight oil
For those whom have not heard from me, I've been pretty dam busy hacking the midnight oil.
Dealing with issues on my consulting gig and also trying to work on the http://www.seismicradio.com/
That's taking a bit of work testing out software, hacking it and planning a strategy for integration with the DJ's and the eggdrop IRC radiobot.
So far I've been working with the http://www.slimdevices.com/ slim server and a software emulator slimp3lave/ for the hardware. I had to modify the source and get a few support programs working (mainly Madplay).
(Now to get the plugins working so the DJ's can stop and start the puppy.)
I'm considering the purchase of external players as this has the cool slick VFD display of the current song. It also affords me the abiliy to write alert messages to the screen.
Roku M1000/M2000 Soundbridge
Who knows I may get an M2000 for the living room just for remote screen alerts!!!
The slimserver is nice, however it's ALL in perl and takes a big foot print.
Futhermore it leaves too much interface control in the program.
Ths soundbridge is cool too, it uses an iTunes interface, UPnP/AV or a slimserver.
I'm still considering the globecom jukebox with mpg123 due to it's web interface along with mySQL.
This would allow the seismic DJ's to queue songs in under thier control.
Ahh , still much work to be done.
Posted by Me on October 3, 2005 11:50 PM