Maintaining Huge DVD-RW Media Libraries Using Linux?

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 8, 2002 @11:39PM from the life-of-the-party dept.

jdclucidly asks: "I am faced with the problem of storing a huge high quality audio library in a portable format (i.e. I need to be able to be at a party to DJ within an hour's notice). Being the minimalist that I am, I'd also like this solution to also empower me to listen in my own leisure time wherever I go (i.e. car/home). So, it needs to be lower power, low cost, and able to interface with existing stereo equipment where ever I go. With over 6000 CD's in my possession, storing CD audio on 9.6 GB DVD-R in the open FLAC codec with fully searchable META data was the logical conclusion. Problem: The portable DVD-R/W drives exist, but the host hardware isn't portable enough. I have concluded that a laptop is too bulky for car use and too expensive to risk taking to parties. Instead, what I'd like to do is to port FLAC to the ARM architecture on Linux and use the 106 mHz processor on board the Zarus PDA to power my media library. However, there are two problems in this solution: 1) UDF packet writing/reading, which is required for DVD use, is still very much in it's infancy in Linux; 2) I don't know of any PDA that supports the USB 2.0 or Firewire that portable DVD-R/W requires. Does Slashdot have any ideas for accomplishing a portable media library for under USD$1000 or am I getting a little ahead of the technology here?"

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Doing the impossible. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-09 00:28 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'd also like to travel faster than light, go back in time (actually, much the same thing :) and be able to parse DNA in realtime so I can come up with dream creatures. Oh, and I think that any real DJ would be insulted by a person that needs to compress all their music in a lossy format, and play it back digitally off dvd-r. (A real DJ will lug an entire coffin with 2 1200's,, a mixer, a sampler, and maybe a DAT deck, and atleast 3 or 4 crates of vinyl. Anyone with common sense in your situation would buy a laptop that has a hard disk FAR bigger than 9GB. Maybe 3 or 4 32gb's in a removable cradle?) But then, I guess there are some slashdotters out there who have experience with light, time, dna, compression, dvd-writing and audio playback on pda's, so someone HAS to be able to come up with an open-source solution, for ALL of the above, thats under $50, right?