- Sep 5, 2002
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I wanted to build an inexpensive jukebox to store and play music, as cheap as possible. I was thinking of having it encode mp3 too but more on that later. What would I need to get it cheap but still have good sound quality. Could you any recomendations?
Case: Something inexpensive but has built in fans and power supply, preferably plain looking
Motherboard: built in video
Processor: whatever is good enough, standard fan
Ram: enough to run the os and a music program like winamp
Sound Card: Was thinking of santa cruz
Hard drive: have a 200gb now ill add more when it fills, if it fills
Moniter: 15in whatever cheap, im hoping i can find a free one from our lab, its amazing what professors throw out
Keyboard and mouse:whatever is cheap
As for software, I was thinking of using a pirated version of windows, but I was thinking of learning Linux. If I go windows I'll use winamp, but what player is good for Linux. I heard some stuff about XMMS. Any other good ones? BTW, how much more would the comp need to be able to encode mp3's? I was thinking of adding a cd burner to it.
Thanks for your help
Case: Something inexpensive but has built in fans and power supply, preferably plain looking
Motherboard: built in video
Processor: whatever is good enough, standard fan
Ram: enough to run the os and a music program like winamp
Sound Card: Was thinking of santa cruz
Hard drive: have a 200gb now ill add more when it fills, if it fills
Moniter: 15in whatever cheap, im hoping i can find a free one from our lab, its amazing what professors throw out
Keyboard and mouse:whatever is cheap
As for software, I was thinking of using a pirated version of windows, but I was thinking of learning Linux. If I go windows I'll use winamp, but what player is good for Linux. I heard some stuff about XMMS. Any other good ones? BTW, how much more would the comp need to be able to encode mp3's? I was thinking of adding a cd burner to it.
Thanks for your help