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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: blackcows on October 30, 2007, 06:05:17 pm
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First post here and I have enjoyed reading all of your posts. I have an older laptop that I would like to use to design a touchscreen jukebox. The following are the specifics:
Pentium III
570 MHZ
384 MB RAM
30 GB Hard Drive
XP Pro
Haven't purchased a touchscreen yet but have looked at quite a few 15 inch ELO screens on eBay and will probably get one of those purchased. I have about 18,000 mp3s and realize the hard drive won't hold these so I would either use an external drive (USB 1.0) which currently backs up my music files or pull the files off my HTPC through an ethernet connection. The laptop would not be used for anything other than the jukebox.
Can I make this work?
Mike
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should work fine as long as you are only playing MP3's. You might also consider using Tiny XP to keep the overhead/footprint down.
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If yuo were planning on using freebox i suggest you set the demo up to see if it will run, the lowest spec i have run it on is a pII 700mhz.
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MP3s are fine, but playing videos will not work nicely .....
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MP3s are fine, but playing videos will not work nicely .....
In what software man? I think the real test is to try playing them in WMP. Both MP3's and Videos. If they play in that then they should be fine in whatever jukebox software you go with. You may fair better with windows 2000 as opposed to XP (Tiny XP might be fine i have not used it).