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Do it yourself MP3 Stereo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-pound-on dept.

ckotso writes "There's this guy who has created a hi-fi-like MP3 player using an old PC case, an LCD screen+a few keys attached to the case, a P100 and a small HD booting linux. MP3s are read from a cd-rom, which means 12 hours of continous music at home. I guess it still needs work, but it seems quite good already. Now I know what to do with that old spare midi tower."

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  1. Simpler ways? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    *please send all flames to /dev/null. This device references M$, viewer discretion is advised*

    How about grabbing a DOS based MP3 player, load MSCDEX in the autoexec, write a small program (started by the autoexec) to run your interface (input is from stdin remember? send data to LPT1 for the display. Cinch) and parse the CD to see if it is MP3 or *gasp* CDDA, or even MOD,S3M,it, etc. (if your into old school tunes) and go from there? We could squeeze the whole thing into a 1 meg boot EEPROM, with less boot time, and maybe just a little less memory needed? Linux kicks tail, but DOS could have a bit better use in small non-multitasking appliances like this one.