Nard for embedded music installation

[Wojtek Mitus]

Hello Daniel, i think that Nard suits your needs perfectly, but you need
some Linux knowledge to understand and configure your build environment,
write some startup scripts for your application, etc. There is something
like media player in Nard examples if i remember correctly - maybe that
would be a good start for you. I would use BASS library (
http://www.un4seen.com/) for such a project, and write c application to do
exactly what you need to do (be aware that BASS is free only for non
commercial projects). Here's an example of audio related project based on
Nard - my internet radio player running c application using BASS routines
to stream/mix/play mp3 streams from internet:
https://hackaday.io/project/6672-iris-network-radio-with-alarm-clock .
Cheers,
Wojtek


2016-08-21 5:12 GMT+02:00 Daniel McAnulty <dan at keithmcmillen.com>:

>
> 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
>
>