USB DSL as a MP3 player

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB DSL as a MP3 player
started by: wing_newton

Posted by wing_newton on Mar. 22 2006,03:36

I am thinking of building a bootable DSL USB to act as a MP3 player to play all the MP3 files automatically and continuously.

Basically, I plug my USB to the laptop. Power up the laptop and it will automatically play all the songs from the USB from a separate DOS16 partition.

Please advise. Thanks.

Posted by wing_newton on Mar. 22 2006,06:10

I meant fat16 not dos16.

And, I add the xmms command line to the /opt/bootlocal.sh
to bring up xmms at the start up.

However, I need to strip off all the other applications e.g. X in DSL. Is there a stripped down version available or a version someone has done to give a bare DSL without any application.

Thanks again.

Posted by doobit on Mar. 22 2006,12:40

Xmms has an X based interface.

Posted by runlevel5 on Mar. 22 2006,16:13

you could use the X Virtual Frame Buffer, Xvfb. It doesn't actually run a display, just give a place for x apps to "display" on. They used it on the Radii project < http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8224 >

The problem will be remastering DSL to remove all of the other stuff.

I've seen a lot of requests for stripped DSLs to run servers et.al. I wish I had the time to start a derivative porject with nothing but core OS and package tools to let you build your own. Maybe knoppix would be a better starting point, since packages are less optimized than DSL's, and lets you apt-get remove more easily. dunno if you'd wind up with something as small as DSL, though, even if you removed all of the stuff you didn't need from Knoppix.

Posted by wing_newton on Mar. 23 2006,00:07

I am sure that you folks must know about this one too.

<http://digg.com/hardware/Photo_Frame_using_old_lappy_and_Damn_Small_Linux>

I believe that the author used "rm" manually for his "strip down" purposes. It will be nice if there is a shell script available to do the same.