The basic idea of LiMpOo is to put together some nice piece of sofware. To do this job, vinz chose perl because it is easy to use, very powerful when coming to text manipulation and excellent for integration with other tools.

The hardware used are :

• A PC (old or not),
• A soundcard,
• A serial port connected with an Infra-red Receiver (see lirc web site for detail), or a keyboard (bearkkk),
• A LCD display (MatrixOrbital and Crystalfontz are currecntly supported) or a monitor (bearkkk),
• A minimal hard-disk drive to put a linux system,
• A CD-Rom drive to play MP3 from CD or CD-Audio,
• A network card if you want to be able to control it :)
• Whatever you want ...

• A linux system with audio output,
• A working perl interpreter. Any decent linux distribution should have a recent-enough one,
• Xaudio to decode the mp3, mpg123 planed for version 2.1
• lirc with irexec to receive infra-red order (version 6.1 tested),
• MP3-Info perl module to extract information from your MP3 files (files provided with LiMpOo package),
• TermReadkey perl module for keyboard interface,
• ConfigFile perl module for reading/saving preferences,
• LCDLib for LCD interface, part of this project (files provided with LiMpOo package),
• Xmcd for CD Audio playback, CDDB database and encoding,
• Lame and cdparanoia for encoding.

LiMpOo is online, you can download it NOW !!! sourceforge
Install a Mysql database and let do the INSTALL script.

Note : Version 1.0 does not need Mysql database to run, but install is not well documented.

Jump to the ftp to download all needed package
Except xaudio package, the licence does not permit us to put on the ftp, so you must go to xaudio web pages to download it. It's no more needed to download Xaudio SDK in version 2.0 and compile MPEG-Play.
We will switch from xaudio to mpg123 for licence purpose and to avoid a bug into xaudio. In fact xaudio hang on some mp3 at end. And LiMpOo stay locked whenever somebody press next ! (Planed for version 2.1)

To find all needed package try to search yourself on Freshmeat or download it from our sourceforge ftp.
Read the INSTALL file which describe all key used and more.