Is FreeBSD up to this job?

[Jeremy D. Pavleck]

Indeed. I'm thinking the CD changer would just overly complicate
things. Right now, I feel 500GB of RAID 5 SATA storage will probably
provide enough space plus plenty of room to grow. If I don't have a search
feature, odds are I'll end up just deleting/moving the files off and
loading new ones on. About the movies, well - I will probbaly mention it
to my lawyer, but with things like this I tend to just do it and wait for
a C&D letter to appear. Odds are I won't be yelled at for something like
this, and it's somewhat of a grey area as it is. But I'll talk it over and
see what the lawyer has to say. 
I'm pretty fired up about this whole thing, but I fear it's going to be a
long and winding road, what with my meager income and overwhelming
obstacles I have to face. Thanks for the input though, I appreciate it!

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robert Storey wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:33:30 -0600 (MDT)
> "Jeremy Pavleck" <judge at thend.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi gang,
> >  I was looking at purchasing a jukebox recently for a poolhall. When 
> > all is said and done, I found a refurbished 100 cd jukebox which I 
> > thought was really nice, until I heard the price - $4500. This is on 
> > par with a lot of older refurbished models, and the price can double 
> > for newer ones! So, the gears in my head started turning, and I 
> > mentally devised a plan to build my own jukebox that does more then 
> > your "standard" juke for a lot less money. Though I am unfortunately 
> > more of a Windows guy, I am thinking of turning to FBSD for this job. 
> > 
> > My plan is to build a custom "jukebox looking" enclosure like everyone
> > 
> > is used to seeing in bars, poolhalls, etc. In place of the CD changer 
> > I'd like to have a full PC (Thinking XP2800, 1GB RAM, 500Gb SATA RAID)
> > 
> > built inside, connected to a CD changer that I can control. This way I
> > 
> > can offer more then just CDs, but mp3s and videos as well. I'd like to
> > 
> > pick up a nice vid card (Say an ATI Radeon 9xxx Pro series with
> > S-Video out) and setup the S-Video side to stream videos/xmms mp3/cd 
> > visualizations to 6 TVs spread throughout the place. 
> > In place of the normal song selection screen you normally see, I'd
> > like to place a 17 or 19" LCD that only display 4-8 CD covers & song
> > lists at a time. 
> 
> It's a clever idea. I'm certainly no expert, but I should think it would
> be a whole lot cheaper if you could dispense with the physical CD
> changer and just implement the music with mp3. I'm less sure about video
> - there might be legal issues with taking copy-protected DVDs and
> turning them into mpegs. Anyway, the more you do with software and the
> less with hardware, the less this thing will cost.
> 
> regards,
> Robert
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