Nard for embedded music installation

[Daniel McAnulty]

Thanks for the reply Wojtek!  

So if I went with Nard, you would recommend ditching the python idea?  

Thanks for that BASS link, that's new to me, looks like something worth
learning about.  

Does Nard run bash?  I could probably get a lot of mileage out of bash 
scripting calls to mpg321 or something like that, I would think.  

Dan








> On Aug 21, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Wojtek Mitus <woytekm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>>