From: ciaran dunne (ciaran_dunne at domain hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 08 May 1999 - 23:39:22 IST
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/mp3blaster.html
The above site may be of interest. And allow you to work on a version more
suited to your needs.
>From: Dave Airlie <david.airlie at domain ul.ie>
>To: Stephen Shirley <diamond at domain csn.ul.ie>
>CC: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug at domain linux.ie>
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] FYP idea
>Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 16:46:08 +0100 (IST)
>
> >
> > MP3's are a very popular way to store and exchange
> > music. I have approx 2.5gbs of mp3's on my hard disk
> > at home. When you're playing a game, such as quake,
> > you can get it to play tracks off an audio cd. What
> > I want to do, is write an application that takes the
> > output of an mp3 decoder program, and present it to
> > the system as another cd-rom drive. It would accept
> > the commands to play, pause, next/previous tracks etc.,
> > and pass these back to the mp3 decoder. Basicly, it
> > would pretend to be an audio cd to the point where a
> > normal cd-player program would see and use it just
> > like a normal cd-rom drive. I intend to implement
> > this under Linux. I have used Linux or 3 years now,
> > and it is a lot easier to get information and support
> > than if I did this in windows.
>
>It's certainly possible, you'd need to add a new device that would accept
>the CD audio ioctls, and then spawns of an mp3 player to play whatever
>number you happen to choose ...
>
>So as a quick idea, you'll need a daemon running in user-space, that is
>waiting for a message from the kernel, maybe the netlink stuff might work
>here, then you need to add a new device to the kernel which registers the
>proper ioctls for audio cd drives, and using the information gotten
>transmit the ioctl information to the daemon which spawns an mp3 player,
>
>To take it a step further, you could also do the ioctls that check the
>track times as it plays and the standard cdplayers would display the time
>in the track, total time etc... its a very possible project all right,
>exactly how easy it is I'm not sure, it sounds like probably do-able to
>the level of playing a track in a weekend with no sleep and lots of jolt,
>
>Dave.
>
> >
> >
>
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