Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget? 287
akgoatley writes "Recently my technically inept parents bought a new stereo and have expressed a wish to have it connected to a computer for storing large amount of music - a Linux CD jukebox. An example of this would be The Idiot Jukebox, but the solution has to be less complicated than that. I've already written a fairly basic music database in Perl with a web frontend for searching through it from our LAN, and I'm looking for a Linux-based collection of software to run the jukebox. It has to rip CDs when inserted, store them in a directory structure based on the name of the album. Modification of the ID3 tags is not necessary as my database handles that centrally. To complicate matters, it has to be command-line based as I will be SSHing into the jukebox to control it. The solution has to be a simple collection of software that can be easily controlled via SSH. Due to hardware (and budget) constraints the jukebox will be too slow to run X, anyway :( This means programs like Grip will not be usable. What do you Slashdotters out there think? Any good suggestions or pieces of software you would use?"
solution? (Score:3, Funny)
here you go: (Score:5, Funny)
Don't buy the Sqeezebox! (Score:1, Funny)
Suggestions? (Score:5, Funny)
1. Move out of your parents basement. Sure, the rent is cheap, but you will pay for it in free tech support.
2. Get a real job, then you can tell them you are too busy.
Re:Why bother? (Score:2, Funny)
OK, I am probably the nth person writing to say this, so mod me redundant...
Actually you were the nth - 1 person, so you get +5 Insightful instead... ;)