I started such a project too :-)

I started such a project too :-)

A couple or three years ago, I started a similar project, but I wanted to use SQL to manage things, so I could tag all music with dates, keywords, etc, and select, say, all Elvis Christmas songs recorded before 1960. I do not like playlists; I want to make my choices on the fly. I have about 2/3 of my 2000 CDs on hard drives, with two backup copies, stored as flac files, and the project works well enough to be minimally useable, but then my computer died (too many disk drives without checking for power supply overload), and I foolishly decided to try a dual opteron system. I have had nothing but headaches over the USB and audio, and whether that is due to SMP, or 64 bit, or gentoo, I don't know. Plus a new job, and I ran out of time ... a friend talked me into putting it on source forge, which I regret, as it is not really ready for prime time. It does work after a fashion, but it needs too much TLC for anyone else, and I hope no one actually tries to use it; that would be too embarassing for words :-)

Meanwhile I have lots of plans ... it is a command line program, works nicely as a daemon, talks over a socket to control programs. I have lots of ideas for a GUI interface over the socket, for ripping, playing, burning ... exporting it with an SQLite dump of the database ... but no time and flaky sound sure don't make for progress. It seems like altho gentoo trends better over time, individual releases periodically break USB and/or audio, so it is a major frustration working on it.

I hope your project has better success.

    while true; do
        while [ "$N" == "$T" ]; do
            N=`printf 't%05d' $(( $RANDOM % $TRACK_COUNT ))`
        done
        grep $N /music/directory.txt | sed -e 's/^.* :://'
        mpg321 -o esd -q /music/$N.mp3
        T=$N
    done