Nard for embedded music installation

[Daniel McAnulty]

Hello, I'm looking into using Raspberry Pi's to replace some older-generation compact flash mp3 players I used for several sound and music installations, but I'm a bit worried about 'gallery-proofing' and making them difficult to brick by turning off the power repeatedly.  Nard seems like a perfect solution, but a lot to get up to speed with for me since my expertise is in embedded C and high level things like Python, but I'm not a real Linux expert.   

My hope with the Raspberry Pi was to be able to get python doing some list processing on directories of mp3 files, and then calling something like mpg321 to play them out several usb audio adapters.  Does that sound like a reasonable use of Nard?  

As long as it doesn't sound like a totally wrong approach and I can be confident that it will be the right tool in th long run, I'm willing to put some time in to get it to work.  But I'm hoping someone who knows more about it can help me decide ahead of time whether it's the right direction.  

Thanks!  

Dan McAnulty