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Mon, 11 Feb 2008

coincident queuage

Over the weekend I finally took the time to code up a little hack to use my AirLinkTek MediaGate MG-35 as the playback mechanism for MP3q. Basically, my solution was to keep the MP3q server running on positron, but to configure the playwrapper.sh script (for those of you who have jacked around with MP3q in the past, you know what I'm talking about) to connect to the MG-35 and start playback.

The default MG-35 firmware has no means by which to do this, but the kind folks over at the mg-35_firmware_mods Yahoo! group have a hacked version that runs a telnet server. Naturally, I'm lazy and don't want to assemble a MIPS uClinux build toolchain, so I just had to make playwrapper.sh smart enough to connect, make sure that positron was mounted, and start playback via telnet. Simple! (A good bit of information about the mp3 player executable on the MG-35 was also gleaned from the mediagate wiki.)

In case any of you want it, you're welcome to the whole MP3q shebang. I'm not really interested in providing tech support for it, so probably if you write to ask questions I'll just berate you for not "getting it." Or maybe just ignore you. Something like that.

As for strange coincidences: my blog is configured such that it always shows the 25 most recent entries on the front page. As a result, each post bumps an old one off the bottom of the list. Strangely, the post that this one is bumping off the post from a bit over a year ago wherein I mentioned that I had found the MG-35 and was intending to make it work with MP3q. A year of good intentions later, it's quite a surprise I'm not already in hell.


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