spongezone
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Making something small with decent battery life that could play FLACs (for example) would be extremely difficult without some uber computer engineering skills. Especially if you want to interface IDE or SATA to it.
I suppose hacking something something like an NSLU2 wouldnt be impossible. You could simply hook up a 2.5" USB hard drive to it, and interface a serial LCD to the serial port. The CPU, 266mhz Xscale, should have plently of power to decode FLACs, but you'd have to be an embedded linux guru to figure out how to get digital audio out of the thing (from one of the USB ports, perhaps). Even so, there would still be the problem of how to run the thing on batteries, and it would still not exactly be small.
Edit: I take it back, apparently its quite easy to interface a USB DAC to the NSLU2. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/SlugAsAudioPlayer
I suppose interfacing something like a PCM2702 to it would be trivial then. The only remaining issue would be battery power. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowT...eryPoweredSlug
I suppose hacking something something like an NSLU2 wouldnt be impossible. You could simply hook up a 2.5" USB hard drive to it, and interface a serial LCD to the serial port. The CPU, 266mhz Xscale, should have plently of power to decode FLACs, but you'd have to be an embedded linux guru to figure out how to get digital audio out of the thing (from one of the USB ports, perhaps). Even so, there would still be the problem of how to run the thing on batteries, and it would still not exactly be small.
Edit: I take it back, apparently its quite easy to interface a USB DAC to the NSLU2. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/SlugAsAudioPlayer
I suppose interfacing something like a PCM2702 to it would be trivial then. The only remaining issue would be battery power. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowT...eryPoweredSlug