GiantDisc mp3 / ogg vorbis audio jukebox

GiantDisc is an interesting audio jukebox project that is based on Linux. The basic operation of GiantDisk involves combining a dedicated, headless Linux box, a large disk drive filled with compressed audio files, and a Palm Pilot User Interface to make an audio file player that works as a hi-fi component.

GiantDisk consists of a collection of software tools which includes a set of Linux server scripts for playing and managing compressed audio files, and a Palm Pilot remote control applicaton for controlling the sound server. The GiantDisk software is licensed under the GPL. See the Concept Page for a more detailed overview.

The Palm Pilot is normally connected to the host computer via a serial port, the latest beta version adds tcp/ip capabilities which will allow for USB, IRDA, BlueTooth, W-LAN and GSM operation. Help is needed for testing these latest modes of connection.

A nice capability for the wish-list would be the ability to control GiantDisk from a GUI running on a remote Linux machine, or from a remote web browser. The tcp/ip support should make such applications fairly easy to code.

The GiantDisc Feature List includes:

• The ability to search for tracks and albums.
• The ability to hierachically browse tracks and albums.
• A playlist manager.
• Track recording capabilities.
• Support for hierachically organized genres.
• Network support.
• Support for synchronization between multiple GiantDisk servers.
• Support for streaming media.
• And more...

The GiantDisk Showcase shows a number of possible hardware setups, including home and automobile based computers.

See the ChangeLog file for a detailed project history.

Version 1.30 Beta of GiantDisk was just released.

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