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Using lpd to spool MP3s (2003)

22 points by wtbob 11y ago

wtbob 11y ago
I love how standard Unix tools can be repurposed for other uses. Granted, sometimes it's not the most efficient thing possible (like those databases built on sed & awk), but it's still nifty—and in the case of playing music, it really does make a lot of sense.
- est 11y ago
  idk, change mp3 to youtube, the article is instant relevant today.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    I'm tempted to try youtube-dl in place of the audio players and try it out.
    - anon4 11y ago
      mpv can directly play youtube urls, so you can just do e.g. mpv --vo=null https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
0942v8653 11y ago
Just in case the server does die, here's a snapshot someone took a few minutes ago: https://archive.is/TkaU4 https://archive.is/TkaU4
pridkett 11y ago
I wrote this article 12 years ago and it took me until I saw my own name in the comments to realize it was my own article. Now I want to take the advice of the commenters and make it work for YouTube videos our animated gifs - except have them play on a large LED array. This brings back some great memories if trying to explain to my the girlfriend why I didn't want to go look at engagement rings, "Y'know that old computer under my desk with the noisy fan? Right now thousands of nerds are visiting it to read an article about how I used the printer system to play music." Fwiw - the original is still up: http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp3playing/ http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp...
mappu 11y ago
Neat! ...could you use it as an init system?
dang 11y ago
Ok, we've changed the URL from http://pipan.org/mirror/lpd-mp3/ http://pipan.org/mirror/lpd-mp3/ to yours. Was that an unauthorized copy? Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10378327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10378327 and marked it off-topic.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  >LPD for fun and MP3 playing >FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY SOMEONE PLEASE MIRROR THIS! >This little server runs on a junk AMD-K6 200 over a terrestrial wireless broadband link from sprint. Connection suck? Yup, that's my wonderful 15k/s max upload stream. I really slashdot would ask before doing this sort of stuff. >I haven't even installed ALTQ yet to prioritize my connections, so I can't get out. Oh well, have some fun. Post a mirror on slashdot's comment section. I'd hope the K6 is gone by now, but that's probably the original reason for the mirror.
  - dang 11y ago
    Ah, thanks.
- deleted 11y ago
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- pridkett 11y ago
  It's not an unauthorized mirror. The whole deal was that I was serving the content from an old computer off a residential broadband line. Well, it wasn't even broadband - it was this interesting wireless service in Chicago from Sprint that bounced signals off the Sears Tower. Anyway, Slashdot got it and my machine melted, so I put a plea for mirrors at the top of the page (my writing has improved dramatically since I wrote the plea, please don't judge). This was back in the day before automatic mirroring services existed. Also, I was a very poor grad student at the time, so I didn't have a VPS that could have handled the bandwidth. Carry on then. It's all good.
  - wtbob 11y ago
voltagex_ 11y ago
I've just realised, you could use a networked queue and something like `mpd` to make a multi-user music system... but at that stage you might just want to pay for Spotify.
- anon4 11y ago
  If you're interested in that, see groovebasin. It only plays your local music, but it does allow multi-user access to a shared stream.
tedchs 11y ago
Cute idea... Has anybody tried this with CUPS?

22 points by wtbob 11y ago

wtbob 11y ago

I love how standard Unix tools can be repurposed for other uses. Granted, sometimes it's not the most efficient thing possible (like those databases built on sed & awk), but it's still nifty—and in the case of playing music, it really does make a lot of sense.

est 11y ago
idk, change mp3 to youtube, the article is instant relevant today.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I'm tempted to try youtube-dl in place of the audio players and try it out.
  - anon4 11y ago
    mpv can directly play youtube urls, so you can just do e.g. mpv --vo=null https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

0942v8653 11y ago

Just in case the server does die, here's a snapshot someone took a few minutes ago: https://archive.is/TkaU4 https://archive.is/TkaU4

pridkett 11y ago

I wrote this article 12 years ago and it took me until I saw my own name in the comments to realize it was my own article. Now I want to take the advice of the commenters and make it work for YouTube videos our animated gifs - except have them play on a large LED array. This brings back some great memories if trying to explain to my the girlfriend why I didn't want to go look at engagement rings, "Y'know that old computer under my desk with the noisy fan? Right now thousands of nerds are visiting it to read an article about how I used the printer system to play music." Fwiw - the original is still up: http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp3playing/ http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp...

mappu 11y ago

Neat! ...could you use it as an init system?

dang 11y ago

Ok, we've changed the URL from http://pipan.org/mirror/lpd-mp3/ http://pipan.org/mirror/lpd-mp3/ to yours. Was that an unauthorized copy? Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10378327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10378327 and marked it off-topic.

voltagex_ 11y ago
>LPD for fun and MP3 playing >FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY SOMEONE PLEASE MIRROR THIS! >This little server runs on a junk AMD-K6 200 over a terrestrial wireless broadband link from sprint. Connection suck? Yup, that's my wonderful 15k/s max upload stream. I really slashdot would ask before doing this sort of stuff. >I haven't even installed ALTQ yet to prioritize my connections, so I can't get out. Oh well, have some fun. Post a mirror on slashdot's comment section. I'd hope the K6 is gone by now, but that's probably the original reason for the mirror.
- dang 11y ago
  Ah, thanks.
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pridkett 11y ago
It's not an unauthorized mirror. The whole deal was that I was serving the content from an old computer off a residential broadband line. Well, it wasn't even broadband - it was this interesting wireless service in Chicago from Sprint that bounced signals off the Sears Tower. Anyway, Slashdot got it and my machine melted, so I put a plea for mirrors at the top of the page (my writing has improved dramatically since I wrote the plea, please don't judge). This was back in the day before automatic mirroring services existed. Also, I was a very poor grad student at the time, so I didn't have a VPS that could have handled the bandwidth. Carry on then. It's all good.
- wtbob 11y ago

voltagex_ 11y ago

I've just realised, you could use a networked queue and something like `mpd` to make a multi-user music system... but at that stage you might just want to pay for Spotify.

anon4 11y ago
If you're interested in that, see groovebasin. It only plays your local music, but it does allow multi-user access to a shared stream.

tedchs 11y ago

Cute idea... Has anybody tried this with CUPS?