Given that I am an engineer I am somewhat more comfortable moving beyond a simple CD player set up. I also want the greater flexibility that an advanced set up can give me.
Hardware:
The room has a built in PA system with a mixer that I can just plug into.
Laptop.
SoundBlaster 16bit USB external sound card.
Remote control
Software:
The laptop’s OS is currently Ubuntu Hardy Heron
running Music Player Daemon, LIRC, irexec, Apache and Pitchfork
All of my tango collection has been ripped to FLAC. MPD provides gapless playback, playlists and through integration with LIRC and irexec works with the remote control. The front end to MPD is provided by Pitchfork which is web based hence the apache web server (a bit of overkill but it is still the best interface to MPD). Tracks 1-9 of each playlist map onto the remote control numerical buttons. The stop function has been tweaked to stop when the current track ends.
Hooray! comments. You know you have a perfect right NOT to have comments if you don’t want them … but it looked unintentional, and the ‘no comments’ link looks so sad and wrong with no ‘add comment’ link beside it. I hope you leave them on, but if you don’t want them, just say so
No worries. The comments were turned off because I was messing around with stuff and forgot to turn them back on.