I was reading the Guardian as one does occasionally and getting increasingly discouraged by the chorus of gloom about the impending catastrophic overheating of the planet, exploitation of the working class by evil corporations in pursuit of short term profit etc. So I turned to the reader offer pages for relief and came on the X10 device.
Question:: is there a linux distro that does what the X10 does? What it seems to do is, you give it a CD and it then automagically rips it and sticks it into a database. Then it acts as a searchable player/server. Its basically a music server with an integrated ripping function. In short order and only by feeding it your CDs you seem to end up with a proper collection in easily usable format. Here is a review:
http://www.whathifi.com/review/cocktail-audio-x10-500gb
Is there a distro with all this stuff integrated for the purpose? Or a package? Do people do this with their old CD collections and if so what do they use.
Al
[Feeling somewhat more cheerful having diverted my attention to a safe technical topic... Must remember not to go there again!]
On 25/07/13 10:39, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
the X10 device.
Question:: is there a linux distro that does what the X10 does? What it seems to do is, you give it a CD and it then automagically rips it and sticks it into a database. Then it acts as a searchable player/server. Its basically a music server with an integrated ripping function. In short order and only by feeding it your CDs you seem to end up with a proper collection in easily usable format. Here is a review:
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Is there a distro with all this stuff integrated for the purpose? Or a package? Do people do this with their old CD collections and if so what do they use.
Hi, FWIW, I do the following
Rip cds with sound juicer. It fills in the track names & other CD metadata when it can. For those it gets wrong, or doesn't have info for, I update the metadata with Musicbrains Picard I then save the ripped files in a sensible directory tree on a server This server runs firefly (mt-daap, mt-daapd) which serves this files in an old itunes compatible format (DAAP). I then run Rhythmbox on various laptops (with the DAAP plugin enabled), this can then connect to the server's DAAP port and play any of the songs in the firefly database. It can search etc as required.
This works for my purposes. However, I think Rhythmbox can also work as a streamer - so if you have a server, you could run this on your server as a sound server and also as a client on other machines.
Alternatively, you can just share the folders where you store your ripped files, and use Rhymbox to access them directly from any machine.
There are also more integrated systems out there. I'm not sure but isn't Myth TV also capable of streaming music. I gather it's hard to install though, so you might want Mythbuntu. This lists some alternatives to Microsoft Media Centre which might do what you want http://www.linuxalt.com/linux-alternatives-to/windows/microsoft_windows_medi...
There's also XBMC which seems to be give a good presentation of content - I've never actually used it though.
HTH Steve
Many thanks for the reference to XBMC, have downloaded the ubuntu spin and will try it out. There is another candidate, Vortexbox, also available as iso, so am going to try this too. Seems like the way to go, a low power fanless box with a large drive and it should just work.
Al
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