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My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) phreak23 Profile I have now bought two Epods, and I got the first one today. Thanks to Shadowedge, for selling me his! I own a record store, and am creating a CD Listening station setup using 3-4 Epods, and a PC server to hold MP3s of the CDs and such. My plan is to allow people to walk up and easily browse through CDs on the screen and listen to them. Using a DB of CD info and MP3s, I should be able to allow people to listen to any CD in the store, as well as ones we are out of. I was planning on using touch screens and bookPCs, but that would have been about $900 a setup. ~$300 per Epods!! My initial plan was to set everything up in HTML and have the Epods just browse the local network with a border-less browser screen, but now, I am wondering if Terminal Server Client software will work for me. Am I wrong in thinking that Terminal Server software would allow me to run, say, an application built on the Windows2000 platform and display video in the 640x480 Epods screen at 8bit, and play the sound? I asked a networking friend, and he said he thought it was only DOS type, 'text' display, but he was not sure. That's the only terminal stuff I've seen before. If I am correct, then I can create my application in something other than HTML, and simplifies the problem I was forseeing of playing MP3s thru the network on Windows CE. If anyone has suggestions, hints or alternative ideas, please let me know. Thanks, Chris chem1@swbell.net 03-01-2001 18:55:08

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) JahWren Sound over the epods is not even FM-quality. I would think that you would be better off using the W2K server running Terminal Services to play the music out of a sound card on the server itself. You could put multiple sounds cards in the server and let each epod default to a different sound card. 03-01-2001 20:35:39

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) phreak23 Sound out of the speaker or out of the headphones? I was under the assumption the headphone output was of good quality but low volume. I am going to hook up a separate headphone amp circuit with volume control outside of the Epods. Can others verify that the sound is that bad? 03-01-2001 22:08:11

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) Billings Yes, as far as I know it is mono and sounds very poor -- worse than an FM radio, in fact the quality is about that of an FM radio over the telephone. 03-01-2001 22:52:06

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) phreak23 Ok, so all is not lost though! Sound quality is crap, so back to JahWren's advice, which was to have the sound come out of the server's sound card. Ok, that'll require 3, if not four sound cards. That's do-able if I am not mistaken, and all of the sudden, Citrix is not absolutely needed, unless I want 16 bit display (which would be nice!) I would go on to say that however I built my application, I would have it choose which soundcard when it is first initialized on the Epods. That way each application running can access different sound cards simultaneously... I am looking at a lot of money it seems right now... To get licenses and ####e! Would NT4 and MetaFrame for NT be a better choice??? 03-01-2001 23:19:50

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) jakob Have you considered using a video/audio sender such as the ones sold by X10? 03-02-2001 10:43:55

RE:My Epods Project (Any help appreciated) (modified 0 times) GregBert I have seen it mentioned a couple of times about playing audio on the TS server, but have yet to hear conclusively that this works. I have tried it with various settings and always get an error that essentially says that the hardware is not accessible. As I mentioned in a previous post, this makes sense because it would be very difficult to handle multiple TS sessions attempting to access the hardware, hence it is disabled. To repeat, I don't want the audio streamed to the Epod, but to actually play it on the TS server host. CAN ANYONE VERIFY THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY GOTTEN THIS TO WORK?? If so, please post the details as to what your configuration is to make this work. Thanks, gk 03-02-2001 12:02:49

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