[geeks] home mp3 system suggestions

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:38:56AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> With a little scripting, a linux machine (or presumably *BSD) would do every
> thing in an even more hands off manner, possible with a web interface.  For
> that matter, so could an OS X box.

Exactly.  Thats what I meant - OS X.

> Unfortunately, best quality calls for external ADC/DACs, and those are 
> expensive, but then, he does talk about vinyl, so maybe it would be so 
> bad for him.

He's not as picky as you, Josh - normal mac audio out is fine for him, and
in most cases, he'll just be streaming these over the local LAN and playing
them through a laptop or computer speakers.

> Scripted CD ripping on CD insertion would be easy to pull off with an hour 
> of scripting time.  

Or, he can just put in a cd, click "import", and iTunes does it all for him.
Why reinvent the wheel?

> I don't have any idea why he wants to compile a list to make a wav file, but
> that two should be easy.  Convert the mp3 and flac files to raw audio (mpg123
> and the flac equiv support this), cat them together, then run a utility
> to convert raw audio to .wav files.  But again, Why?

Again, iTunes, "burn audio CD".

bill

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