[ILUG] Build your own MP3 player?

[Justin Mason]

"John P. Looney" said:

>  Not really. Why not go the whole hog;
>     A box with decent 3D that you could play TuxRacer on
>     A box with decent audio so you could play CDs of MP3/OGGs
>     A box with reasonably CPU so you could watch a DIVX encoded movie on a
>         DVD RAM/CDROM
>     A box that's got an RJ45 socket & modem, so it's your dial up router
>     A box that's solid state so you don't notice if it's left on all the
>         time
>     A box with a voice modem that can accept voicemails/faxes
>     A box with a TV tuner so it's a digital video recorder (spin up the
>         hard disk when recording/playing, then turn it off again)

It's a PC!   (well apart from the solid-state bit.)

For living-room use, what about buying a Nuon-based DVD player?
(http://www.nuon.tv/whatis.html) Then write an MP3-player app for that?

I know a few folks who used their Playstation to play CDs for about 3
years before they felt the need to spring for a proper CD player,
and Nuon looks nicely hackable...

--j.