Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] smallest distro

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My program can do automated ripping of dvd's or cd's but I haven't 
released code for it lately. Waiting til I feel motivated. You can make 
a quickprogram of the same type with the command line programs and some 
short Python (Perl, whatever) program to detect when a disc is in and 
then use the regular command line utils to rip it. Geek secret. To 
detect a disc read like /dev/cdrom and if you can read 1 byte a disc is 
in the drive. If no disc is present usually it'll throw an error or 
return a 0 length value.. depending on the lang you use. That operation 
is lightweight enough that it can run it often.. like once per second.. 
without bogging down your program. I just set it as a timed event. If 
you want to read cddb type info it might be a lil trickier.

> What would it take to automate CD-ripping from that so that you could just "load" your CD's onto the hard drive as mp3 or whatever, and play it as a jukebox of sorts?
> 
> I don't know what ripping software can be run commandline, but that + modifications to an Auto-load script should do that, I would think.


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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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