I've got two NEC 4x4 CD changers, and there's a reasonably easy way to make them auto-switch CDs, despite what everyone else says.:) SCSI host emulation doesn't do what you want, but the kernel automounter (normally used for NFS) can be told to run a command when a filesystem is mounted, and that certain filesystems are mutually exclusive. So mine does an eject -c0 for/cdrom1, eject -c1 for/cdrom2 etc. Works lovely. The automount man pages/docs tell you how to do it.
Personally, I quite like the idea of an mp3 player which I can carry a reasonable amount of media about for. The Rio and similar have far too little RAM to be really useful, and I don't much relish spending 10 minutes filling them up every time I change what I want to listen to. The minidiscs are better that way since you can easily carry a pocketful of them, but the drawback is that they take over an hour to fill up. We really need a decent compromise, and Iomega's Clik! disks might well be the cure.
Fair enough. I was about to make a criticism on the pointlessness of this project; We already *have* ImLib - sure, having alternatives is A Good Thing(TM) but it seems a bit pointless writing two libraries to do exactly the same thing, under exactly the same license. Here's hoping they'll at least use the same base libraries (e.g. libMagick, libgr etc.) so we don't have another 30 libraries to install next time we want to use a K app under Enlightenment.
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I've got two NEC 4x4 CD changers, and there's a reasonably :) /cdrom1, /cdrom2 etc. Works lovely. The automount
easy way to make them auto-switch CDs, despite what everyone else says.
SCSI host emulation doesn't do what you want, but
the kernel automounter (normally used for NFS)
can be told to run a command when a filesystem
is mounted, and that certain filesystems are
mutually exclusive. So mine does an eject -c0 for
eject -c1 for
man pages/docs tell you how to do it.
Personally, I quite like the idea of an mp3 player
which I can carry a reasonable amount of media about for.
The Rio and similar have far too little RAM to be
really useful, and I don't much relish spending 10 minutes
filling them up every time I change what I want to listen to.
The minidiscs are better that way since you can
easily carry a pocketful of them, but the drawback
is that they take over an hour to fill up. We really
need a decent compromise, and Iomega's Clik! disks
might well be the cure.
Fair enough. I was about to make a criticism on
the pointlessness of this project; We already *have* ImLib -
sure, having alternatives is A Good Thing(TM) but it seems a bit
pointless writing two libraries to do exactly the same thing, under
exactly the same license. Here's hoping they'll at least
use the same base libraries (e.g. libMagick, libgr etc.) so we don't
have another 30 libraries to install next time we want to use a K app under Enlightenment.