MP3 Heaven

[themidnightgirl]

Tired of the randomness of the locations of MP3's on my main computer, last week I attempted to use my Linux box (my 4 year old PII 400) as an MP3 server. This ran into a barrier when I discovered that I had 10Gb of disk space on that PC and that I had more than 10Gb of MP3's.

I bought a shiny new 40Gb hard drive on Saturday and attempted to fit it, only to find that the BIOS didn't recognise this, despite my best efforts. Last night, after getting home from the pub nice and early so that I could be in work at 8 today, I foolishly realised what the problem was and performed a bios upgrade. Nerve-racking stuff, but it worked OK and it now recognised the hard drive. Formatted correctly, and mounted in the right place with the directory set up as a Samba share and the gnump3d pointing at the right place, I then transferred 2223 MP3's to the new place. Woo me.

Tomorrow, I shall tidy up a bit then sort through the two huge "Misc" directories so the MP3's are in nice directories by artist names. I can do that remotely from my XP machine. Why, I hear you ask, would I wish to do that, rather than use the machine directly? The XP machine has a functional mouse. I rest my case.

End geekitude

Comments

Oooh

[nocturnia.livejournal.com]

Very cool!
Shiny!
Geeky! :-)

Niice

Re: Oooh

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Well...I didn't go in to the "Nicola" subdirectory on Stark so there might be some more to be added. There's probably enough space for some movies as well.

Any idea if you're coming back or not?

Re: Oooh

[nocturnia.livejournal.com]

I've not got any mp3s in the Nicola Directory.
They're all in My Music. (Or were :-) )

And yeah, I'm trying to get my strength back... have flu, it's gone to my chest now so I'm starting to feel a bit better, but can't carry my bag yet :-(

How's my ickle favouritest white and ginger 'itten?
Give her a stroke for me.

Re: Oooh

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Actually, still are.

I need you to make some decisions at some point (e.g. we have eight versions of Misere, and three of them seem to be identical), but that can wait until my great reorg is complete.

More interestingly (perhaps), you'll have a choice of how to play them. The MP3 server software has an ability to stream MP3s across the LAN, which is nice, or you could play them via the share.

Yet more interestingly, you can set up your own saved playlists and access THOSE across the LAN too.

Re: Oooh

[nocturnia.livejournal.com]

heh nice.

Have you seen the newversion of winamp, by the way?
It's pretty shiny.
Though it takes up a lotof memory.

And I'll go through the music and cut some down.

Can you do me a favour and stick the new music directory share into the ftp server for my user and set the ftp server going?
I want to copy the chinesey and classical music over here for my dad to have.

Thanks!