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Burning MP3s onto CD
by Andy Stewart 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

HI gang, OK, so let's say that I get one of those players that plays audio CDs or CDs with a bunch of MP3 files on them. (I don't mean converting the MP3s to audio first). My question is this: what format is used for the MP3 CD? Is it just a standard ISO9660 CD with the MP3 files and playlists(?) layed out with a particular directory scheme? Or is it something else? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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RE: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD
by Keller, Tim 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Andy, The Way I lay my CD's out is root Artist Album mp3's I personally use mkisofs and the loopback mount them as a sanity check. As for the format, I use ISO9660/Joliet with "allow stuff that breaks ISO" aka mkisofs -U -J -o some.iso a_subdirectory_layed_out_like_above/ It'll then bitch about this not conforming but everything works fine. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:07 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD HI gang, OK, so let's say that I get one of those players that plays audio CDs or CDs with a bunch of MP3 files on them. (I don't mean converting the MP3s to audio first). My question is this: what format is used for the MP3 CD? Is it just a standard ISO9660 CD with the MP3 files and playlists(?) layed out with a particular directory scheme? Or is it something else? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [Wlug] perl wus
by ccb＠acm.org 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

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RE: [Wlug] VNC performance
by dibb_jim＠emc.com 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Right click on windows desktop, choose settings->background, then under wallpaper select (None). That disables windows wallpaper. Maybe there's something else. Hope it helps. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:36 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] VNC performance Hi All, I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC performance at a wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, as well as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the client on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it seems to involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access denied message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out here? I really know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth 8' doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. Thanks, --Brad _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [Wlug] VNC performance
by Evans, Robert 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Try using a registry editor on Windows: (Typically in these places on Windows 2000) C:\WINNT\regedit.exe C:\WINNT\system32\regedt32.exe Robert N. Evans Software Engineer S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S 111 Powdermill Road, Maynard, MA 01754-3409 U.S.A. * Tel. 978-461-7680 / * Fax. 978-461-3610 robert.evans(a)stratus.com Amateur Radio Call: N1BE -----Original Message----- From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:36 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] VNC performance Hi All, I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC performance at a wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, as well as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the client on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it seems to involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access denied message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out here? I really know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth 8' doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. Thanks, --Brad _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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VNC performance
by Brad Noyes 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hi All, I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC performance at a wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, as well as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the client on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it seems to involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access denied message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out here? I really know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth 8' doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. Thanks, --Brad

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RE: [Wlug] MP3 Player recommendations
by Keller, Tim 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

My $.02 I personally own a Sonic blue Rio Volt and really like it. I've never heard of the iriver, but oh well. Things I really like about the Rio Volt 1. 10 hours of music per CD (with 128bit mp3's). 2. doesn't use some weirdo proprietary storage device that they'll stop manufacturing 6 months from now. 3. Can play regular CD's. This weighed heavily into getting a CD based device. I'm not going to carry an mp3 player and a CD player. Invariably, I go some where and someone's got a CD they want to listen to... 4. supports different bit depths on mp3's. My advisor got a cheaper CD based mp3 player and it just assumes that everything's 128bit. His 96bit hotel California mp3 sounds like "Alvin and the chipmunks do the eagles greatest hits" 5. has a recessed switch to disable the controls on the unit. You don't know how many sets of batteries I killed in my Sony Discman because I'd put it in my backpack and the buttons would get pressed and it would play Ride the lightning over and over. 6. The controls are good but a bit esoteric. I've got a CD with the complete works of Pink Floyd on it, organized as "albums as subdirectories" so its got ~156 songs. Until you understand the controls (or read the instructions) finding a single song is a bit mind bending. 7. It has a 40 second cache so the battery life is pretty long. Things I don't like about the Rio Volt: 1. The volume sucks on it. The ear bud headphones are just a complete waste, unless your dumbo. You'll want a pair of headphones with their own gain volume. 2. The battery cover opens easily, not really a big deal, but annoying. 3. Can't recharge batteries in the device. My old discman does this, why couldn't these guys? 4. Those stupid dancing people and that spinning CD icon (which looks a lot like the fan icon on the front of a Sun E1000 fibre array). I would have ditched the people and made the text display larger so you could put more info on it. (in the same vein I would have dumped the stupid fan icon and put "FAN BROKE" but that's just me...:) I'll bring my mp3 player with me to the next wlug meeting so anybody who wants to check it out are welcome. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Sands Fish [mailto:fishsands@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 7:46 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] MP3 Player recommendations A little more depth on the Sonicblue Rio Volt SP250: This is the model I was going to (and still might) purchase, kuz you can't be a cool dork w/out a portable mp3 player. ;) When I dug a little deeper into this model, I came across it's European counter-part, the iRiver. It is, of course, a little more expensive. Essentially, it's from the same company who OEM's the RioVolt line, but the trick is, they water down their products for the American market. There are a few things that the iRiver has that the RioVolt doesn't. 1.) LCD on the remote control. I don't know how much this interests people, but it's a nice little feature. Also, I believe those stupid dancing people that everyone so widely hated do not appear on the iRiver. 2.) I've been told by people experienced in both players that there are much more frequent firmware revisions for the iRiver. Oh, and this is a good place to mention that this is the feature that made me wanna buy it. As patches/fixes/upgrades are made for the player, you can d/l firmware upgrades, burn them to a cd, and run them in the player. One thing that really interested me is that, on the iRiver site http://www.iriver.com/english/imp250.htm they mention the potential implementation of the OGG Vorbis format, which I'm a big fan of, (no royalties threatened like MP3.) This is something I haven't seen mentioned for the American version, but who knows. One other thing I should mention. You'll need a power converter for this model. :) If anyone does end up with this player, please post your impressions on the list. I haven't completely made up my mind yet whether I want to pay more. Sincerely, Cheapskate Sands Fish <x>< --- "Charles R . Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:00:26PM -0500, Andy > Stewart wrote: > andystewart> Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking > about asking Santa for a portable > andystewart> MP3 player. Of course, it needs to > work with Linux. > > You to, eh? > > andystewart> Judging from the looks of the CDs which > I've ripped into MP3 files, 32 MB > andystewart> of memory looks like it might be a tad > small for a single CD, while 64 MB > andystewart> looks like it might do the trick for > loading up around 2 CDs worth of > andystewart> music. Is this a fair assessment? > Since I use compact flash for my > andystewart> digital camera, any MP3 player that > uses this medium should probably get > andystewart> extra consideration, I would think. > > Personally, I think the memory-based MP3 players are > way too expensive for how > many songs they can hold. I'd rather have a > CD-ROM-based player, since a CD > can hold about 10 hours of music. Also, you don't > have to worry about > Linux compatibility, since it will take any standard > ISO9660 CD-ROM which you > can burn from Linux just fine. The other type of > players, based on hard drives, > are also too expensive for my taste, and who needs > to store 100's of hours of > music on a portable device? The CD-MP3 players are > the "just right" > price/performance right now. > > The latest CD-MP3 players have come a long way since > the Genica 1st generation > units. By far the best ones I have found are these > two, since they have > excellent navigation capabilities, which you'll need > to navigate the hundreds > of songs on a CD: > > Sonicblue Rio Volt SP250 > TDK Mojo > > Check out their reviews on http://music.cnet.com/ . > They both got Editor's Choice. > > -- > Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / > http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ > PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 > Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 > A0F9 49BB 5886 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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MP3 Player recommendations
by Andy Stewart 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

HI gang, Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking about asking Santa for a portable MP3 player. Of course, it needs to work with Linux. Judging from the looks of the CDs which I've ripped into MP3 files, 32 MB of memory looks like it might be a tad small for a single CD, while 64 MB looks like it might do the trick for loading up around 2 CDs worth of music. Is this a fair assessment? Since I use compact flash for my digital camera, any MP3 player that uses this medium should probably get extra consideration, I would think. Any thoughts or recommendations will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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RE: [Wlug] Forcing scsi probe on the fly...
by Keller, Tim 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

This worked perfectly! Thanks, Tim! -----Original Message----- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:felicity@kluge.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:14 PM To: Worcester Linux User's Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Forcing scsi probe on the fly... On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:50:01PM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote: > Does anybody know with Redhat 7.1 (using 2.4.2-2) if theirs a way to force > the scsi chain to rescan its bus (without an unload/reload) of the module? > > so far, I haven't found something like HPUX's ioscan. Unless something's changed, Linux doesn't have the capability to do that yet (the last time I checked, there needs to be some extra functionality added to the kernel SCSI code). Whenever I had to add a device live, there's a thing with /proc/scsi/scsi that you can do (this is from the SCSI Programming HOWTO): Dynamically insert and remove SCSI devices If a newer kernel and the /proc file system is running, a non-busy device can be removed and installed 'on the fly'. To remove a SCSI device: echo "scsi remove-single-device a b c d" > /proc/scsi/scsi and similar, to add a SCSI device, do echo "scsi add-single-device a b c d" > /proc/scsi/scsi where a == hostadapter id (first one being 0) b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0) c == ID d == LUN (first one being 0) There's also a script which tries to automate this kind of stuff: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh I've never tried it, but I've seen it mentioned on a few mailing lists that I monitor. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Does anyone not understand what the hell is going on?" - Prof. Bagchi _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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linuxconf/7.1?
by Bill Mills-Curran 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I put together a RedHat 7.1 machine recently and was surprised to find that linuxconf was not part of the default installation. It's clearly improved over older versions of linuxconf, so why isn't it installed? Anyone know why? Thanks, Bill

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