MP3 Jukebox?
November 17th, 2002 by Will
Anybody know if there’s a way to hack a Tivo box (in particular a DirectTV Tivo box) so that it can serve as an MP3 jukebox? It seems like this is one of the first hacks that people would have put in place, but whenever I go searching for a way to do it, I can’t ever seem to find it. Who’s going to do Caller ID before they do MP3 Jukeboxes — seriously, who?
I was reminded of my desire for this again because I came across Yahaha’s CDR-HD1300, a stereo component with 80GB hard drive built in. I was interested until I realized it costs $800 which is a good $300 too much in my book. Also, it doesn’t seem to support MP3s. I mean please, do they really think I’m going to re-rip all of my CDs at this point? Why in this day and age do you build something like this and not support MP3s? Idiotic, anti-consumer copyright zealots. I also don’t think it can connect to the CDDB, so you get to type out all of the album and track info yourself. Really, really just ridiculously dumb.
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The purpose of the CDR-HD1300 is to copy CD’s to it’s harddrive for jukebox type playback with uncompressed, CD quality sound. MP-3 is compressed, low-quality sound.
And it’s fine to support an uncompressed format, but there’s really no excuse for not supporting MP3 as well. My DVD player can read mp3 files. A hard drive based piece of stereo equipment should be able to read (and probably write) MP3 files as well.