[ale] mp3 player

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

neat little toy.  look for them on ebay.  I'm using them to interface with
my home automation system via a webpage...in very rough, unfinished form at
the moment due to my lack of skills at building a webpage, but I'm working
on it!

-Bob K.

on 3/8/03 4:43 PM, Robert L. Harris at Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Are those still available?  I remember see'ing them a while back but
> couldn't afford it back then.
> 
> 
> Thus spake Robert E. Karaffa, II (rkaraff at emory.edu):
> 
>> I like the Vaio idea, Robert.  For my money, I found 3Com's Audrey to work
>> as a front end player to my mp3 library.  Audrey can nfs mount the server,
>> has a touch screen interface, runs QNX, with a little web browser, has no
>> moving parts...all for less than $100.  Takes a little tweaking to make it
>> go, but, heck, I figure anyone who reads this list has 'tweaking' as their
>> middle name...
>> 
>> 
>> -Bob K.
>> 
>> p.s.  Audreyhacking.com
>> 
>> on 3/8/03 9:04 AM, Robert L. Harris at Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I took a Sony Vaio (p2-400ish) and put blackbox on it (liked the look)
>>> and just xmms running on it.  It nfs mounted my MP3's from my fileserver
>>> wehre I could update the files, play lists, etc.  As soon as I get
>>> another laptop I'll be building another one like this, it was great.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thus spake Stephen Turner (artic_knight at yahoo.com):
>>> 
>>>> hey i seen in a magazine once about takeing a p4 and makeing a mp3 player
>>>> with harddisk, anyone seen any projects makeing a cooler running one with
>>>> a smaller processor? i dunno, i was interested in a more computerish mp3
>>>> player so i know i can update the firmware to use stuff like ogg and what
>>>> ever comes my way ;) not to mention makeing one that uses a 80 gig hard
>>>> disk for the price (in parts) of a 20 gig ipod? sweet! any good sites for
>>>> this?
>>>> 
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>> 
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>> Emory University
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> DISCLAIMER:
>     These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> 
> Diagnosis: witzelsucht
> 
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> IPv4 = robert at mail.rdlg.net    http://www.rdlg.net
> 

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Robert E. Karaffa, II
Technical Director
Emory University
Flow Cytometry Core Facility
954 Gatewood Dr.
Atlanta, Ga 30329
voice: 404/712-4429
e-mail: rkaraff at emory.edu
web:  http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/MED/RESEARCH/FLOWCYT/
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