Installation instructions... unpack both the media-bin and media-src packages from the root dir, as root. The media-bin package unpacks into /usr/local/bin and /etc/init.d, and also creates /etc/media.cfg - The media-src package unpacks into /usr/src. - Compile and install the CDDB perl modules (CDDB and CDDB::File) For each one, cd into the source and make clean perl Makefile.PL make make install - Compile and Install the Perl Term-Readline module ( Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 ) - Compile and Install the Perl Term Readkey module ( TermReadKey-2.21 ) - (Optional) Compile and Install cdparanoiaIII-alpha-9.8. A precompiled binary is included in the media-bin package. Edit /etc/media.cfg to set paths to music files and binaries. symlink /etc/init.d/pmon and /etc/init.d/rmon into the appropriate /etc/rc.d/* directories to start the playmonitor and ripmonitor on bootup. How to use it ------------- The daemon process "playtrack" should be started at boot time. It controls the /dev/dsp device, and listens via a shared memory segment for instructions from the user. To talk to playtrack, use mediaserver.pl (should unpack into /usr/local/bin). One day I'll write some docs for it. Putting an audio CD into the drive should cause dotherip.pl to start ripping tracks. A connection to the internet is assumed, and it will try to contact CDDB. You can see what the ripper is currently doing by looking at the files ".current" and ".log" in the base music directory ("base" in /etc/media.cfg).