DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: MP3 DVD car player?



If you are paying $65 US for a compact flash card, then you are getting ripped off.

I can get a 64MB compact flash card for almost free in my location.  For example, there is currently a PQI brand 128MB compact flash card selling for $8.99 after a $10.00 rebate.  Even if I got a premium brand card it is probably still under $30.00

You can also do the OS on the flash card and the mp3s on the DVDROM drive.

With a little bit of scripting, you can quickly copy a few mp3s from the DVD drive into the RAMDISK and then play them skip-free.  Then when the mp3s are done playing, you can delete them and queue up the next batch into the RAMDISK.

This would allow you to use a DVDROM exclusively and avoid skipping.

If you have 128MB of RAM you can load the entire OS into RAM using the "toram" boot parameter and then spin down your DVDROM drive for most of your voyage.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 30 2004,06:47)
If you are paying $65 US for a compact flash card, then you are getting ripped off.

I can get a 64MB compact flash card for almost free in my location.  For example, there is currently a PQI brand 128MB compact flash card selling for $8.99 after a $10.00 rebate.  Even if I got a premium brand card it is probably still under $30.00

You can also do the OS on the flash card and the mp3s on the DVDROM drive.

With a little bit of scripting, you can quickly copy a few mp3s from the DVD drive into the RAMDISK and then play them skip-free.  Then when the mp3s are done playing, you can delete them and queue up the next batch into the RAMDISK.

This would allow you to use a DVDROM exclusively and avoid skipping.

If you have 128MB of RAM you can load the entire OS into RAM using the "toram" boot parameter and then spin down your DVDROM drive for most of your voyage.

cbagger: To quote your previous post QUOTE  You can get a 1GB USB 2.0 thumb drive (that will also work with USB 1.1 at slower rates) for about $55.00-65.00 in the USA. UNQUOTE

And I my previous post I said that stuff over here in Europe is way more expensive than it is in the US.

So if I pay 10 Euro's for a second hand DVD-Rom and about 0.89 to 1.12 Euro's for a (4.7GB) DVD I'm still cheaper than you. :p

I'm not fond of using flash cards/mem sticks to keep the OS on. They aren't made for that use. And a frugal on a 64MB ram P1 ? I think I'll stick with the DVD-solution.
Anyway, I'l keep you all posted on my progress.

Oh, is there a howto on making your own bootcd? I browsed a little and may have passed it.
This post should be helpful:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2484

It explains how you can build a customized *.iso for burning to CD-R or DVD-R disk using the mkmydsl script

You should boot up the normal dsl livecd on a newer computer with a decent amount of RAM in order to perform this task.

You can also do it on an older computer if you have a large swap partition or if you run the script in a directory on a linux hard drive partition (EXT2 preferred).

Good Luck.
i dont about using DSL but my friend uses win95 with winamp2.6 with a LED plugin on a old pentium 100,because he uses a hardrive he has the pc mounted on springs.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 31 2004,08:41)
This post should be helpful:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2484

It explains how you can build a customized *.iso for burning to CD-R or DVD-R disk using the mkmydsl script

You should boot up the normal dsl livecd on a newer computer with a decent amount of RAM in order to perform this task.

You can also do it on an older computer if you have a large swap partition or if you run the script in a directory on a linux hard drive partition (EXT2 preferred).

Good Luck.

Thanks a bunch!!

Can't decide what to do first: mess around with making a custom cd or grab my soldering iron to prepare the LCD and IR remote first and get that working first.
(I read somewhere XMMS is LIrc-abled and can handle LCD scrren, is that correct?)


Guess it will be the CD. Thank god for CD/DVD-RW's

If I have read correctly and in analogy to the Master/Optional directory I could add a MP3 directory to hold my MP3's.

Then get XMMS to start up automagically and read a playlist and start playing it.

Interesting and challenging!!!
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