RE: London meet - ORGANISATION

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

To access the Archive - NO

 

As a standalone copy of my system  - Yes with just a few config tweaks such as directory permissions

 

It is built on ASP and Access so IIS or PWS will be just fine and dandy.

 

The real power and flexibility of my Jukebox comes from a tightly controlled database.

 

The only time an MP3 will exist more than once is when there are 2 different versions of a song eg

 

MySong (Radio Edit)

MySong (Boringly Long arty mix)

 

It supports unlimited playlists and is self randomising.

 

My MP3 files sit in directories called

 

Wurlitzer0

Wurlitzer1

Wurlitzer2 etc

 

and the files are named 01506.mp3 or 14312.mp3 etc in the format AAATT.mp3 where AAA is the album number and TT is the track number of the album it was ripped from. If I have already ripped an identicle track from another CD I reference the MP3 file for that.

 

I have looked at using CDDB info and have also looked at the lists within the DHA archive and despite the best efforts to clean up the data I can still see glaringly obvious duplicates just because someone misspelt an artist name or album title.

 

I an looking to see if I can try to use CDDB to minimise some of the typing but basically I only have to enter and artist name once after that it is picked from a list, the same goes for titles by that artist.  You will see in time :-)

 

I also dont have any use for MP3 tags as I display as much info as I want from that database when I play the tracks including chart info etc.

 

I can search by almost anything I want to. (excluding what the artist had for breakfast the day before yesterday!)

 

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 April 2002 12:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] London meet - ORGANISATION

Keith,

Is this something that could be loaded onto the envisaged server? - what
does it require? - IIS, PWS,... That machine will have the ENTIRE UKHA MP3
archive loaded on it! (and will have a half-decent spec...) ;-)

I have powered speakers standing by...

Paul G.



>From: "Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] London meet - ORGANISATION
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:12:37 +0100
>
>If someone can ensure we have a pair of powered speakers it would be good.
>
>I hope to bring a clonky old laptop to demonstate my web based Jukebox. It
>will have a VERY limited choice as it only has a couple of gig of space but
>should prove the concept nicely. Might also be a bit slow as the laptop is
>a
>P166 with only 48M ram but it does work, some of the other machines can be
>used as the clients provided they have MSIE and a current version of
>MediaPlayer installed.
>
>Getting excited now :-)
>
>Keith
>www.diyha.co.uk
>www.kat5.tv
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Broadfoot, Kieran J [mailto:Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 10 April 2002 11:55
>   To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] London meet - ORGANISATION
>
>
>   Right, Im happy to provide the infrastructure for this if someone can
>help
>   me move the stuff from my flat to the pub.  I have a sparc running dhcp
>   services, a wireless point i dont mind reconfiging and the switch which
>i
>   can just set all ports to auto on.  Does that sound any good?  Likewise
>its
>   also running a mock server so if anyone wants music i can bring a ddar
>and
>   speakers.
>
>   Thanks
>         kieran
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] London meet - ORGANISATION
>
>   >>
>   >OK..presume you me and Keith can be there early then Paul.  From memory
>Li
>   >and Phil were there waiting for us last year when we got there too.
>   >Hopefully we can have a small core there to setup then.
>   >
>
>   Yes, with only an hour before the hoardes arrive, we'll have to get our
>   skates on..
>
>   First, I think we should agree what we want to try to set up...
>
>   a) Obviously we will want a 10/100 wired network,
>   b) Do we want to try to set up a WiFi network as well?
>   c) Presumably we will require DHCP services and so on
>   d) We'll require a machine to host Ian's HDD's with the MP3 archive on
>
>   Keiran is also nearby, available, and ready to assist... - K, I think
>your
>   Cisco switch would be our preferred option at the mo...
>
>   I reckon we'll need at least one server setup to do (c) and (d) above, -
>I
>   can take care of that if required, - I can build a W2K server in advance
>   with DHCP scopes configured and so on... and just plug it in on the day.
>
>   For a wireless setup, - who has the "easiest" WAP to provide? - mine's
>not
>   *too* bad (not hidden in the loft or anything), but I'd need to totally
>   reconfigure it, - turn off WEP, turn off MAC filter, change ESSID and so
>   on... - if anyone's got one that's not yet "in live use" that would save
>me
>   this hassle...
>
>
>   > > b) - leaving kit overnight - also no problem - the room is not used
>on
>   > > Saturday daytime, so we would have up 'till 6PM to clear our stuff
>out.
>   >
>   >Excellent.
>   >
>   >M.
>   >
>   >
>
>   Or it could be moved to Kierans.... (I just *know* I've spelled that
>wrong!)
>
>   Paul G.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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