Well I thought that, since I'm probably the only person on this board, I'd keep the trends going...

So, when do we see the HSX in Europe then?

Cheers,

Paul.

Hi Paul,

Just thought I'd reply so you don't go mad talking to yourself.

Cheers

Paul

Don't hold your breath.

Rob

Yo yo yo dudes - Seems like the car player hardcore automatically got moved to here too.

I have an HSX109 and I live in Europe so nananananana!

In fact the first European showing of it will be occurring at my 25th birthday party tomorrow night.

Happy birthday, Toby!

I was going to attach a photo to this post, but it appears to be broken.

No, yah boo sucks 'cos I live in Europe - you don't even share the currency!

And I demoed mine here on the day of the official release, so na na na na nah!

Mind you though, you've probably got one with a real case, but hey! See-through perspex is cool, doncha know!

Happy Birthday, Toby. Have a pint on me.

Nah, it's the Dr. Who-style perspex model.

Hopefully file uploads should now work again. Please shout if it doesn't

Paul

If the photo was bigger than 100k, that's what happened. Is that what happened, or are uploads broken on the BBS again?

Wow, Paul, simultaneous postings. Too fun.

Quite a lot is broken. I had problems uploading the file, and when I went to delete my post, I got this. I suspect that it's trying to unlink the attachment that's not there.

Warning: Unlink failed (No such file or directory) in /www/htdocs/rioreceiver.comms.net/php/deletepost.php on line 72

Try again.

Nope:

Warning: Unable to create '/home/httpd/html/infopop.com/files/835-113-1382_IMG-small.JPG': No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/rioreceiver.comms.net/php/addpost.php on line 892

Photo is here. This is the alcove in the house that Toby and I share. You can see the HSX-109 in perspex, Toby's empeg, Toby's amp and various assorted African memorabilia.

Sorry Roger,

Can you try again. Looks like the upgrade trashed the settings.

Cheers

Paul

OK. The photo should be attached here.

Yep, that works.

Ater all that its plugged into a Goodmans hifi? ;-)

Cheers

Paul

Frigging big ain't it?

How can I convert my spare empeg into a mini HSX to serve up MP3's to my family of Rioreceivers (twins are on the way so that'll make 5 with the DDAR triplets).

How can I convert my spare empeg into a mini HSX to serve up MP3's to my family of Rioreceivers (twins are on the way so that'll make 5 with the DDAR triplets).

This one is covered in the empeg FAQ.

From the FAQ

Although it is possible to port the server software to Linux and run it on the car player (someone actually demo'd this very thing at one of the user meets), the database code eats up a lot of memory. So having the player be a server and also having it continue to work as a player at the same time probably isn't going to work very well.

But the hardware spec of the HSX is very similar to the empeg

From a post by Rob on the empeg BBS

206Mhz StrongARM
16Mb RAM
1Mb Flash
320x240x4bpp greyscale (OK, bluescale) screen

CPU utilisation is far nearer the max than with the car player, as this product background rips and encodes.

Rob

So why not?

whats that non-regulation black mkII RioCar handle I see - how did you make that?
Sandblast the black paint off the handle?

Rob made a comment recently about the HSX being more 'multi-threaded' enabled than the Empeg.

Can't see why the Empeg can't be used as a server [only] - with the right software and I guess as the stuff is GPL'ed its only time before it happens.

Nor for that matter is there any reason you couldn't make your empeg a RioReceiver I guess.

That way at boot up time you could decide do I want car player mode or RioReceiver Mode or HSX 109 server mode...

Hey, the first reference to empeg FAQ on the new board!

Yup I'm sure Tony is on commission for every time he mentions it.



Paul

Hey Paul, I see you got the digital camera out again

The database on the empeg is kept completely in memory. On the HSX-109, the disk is always spun up, so we don't have to. This gives us more room to play with -- plus we have swap.

Damn, thats way to big to fit in the suitcase the two Recievers came back from USA in

It's a standard Mk II car player handle before painting. There were only a couple around, and I managed to nick them. In fact all my car-players have raw aluminium handles, I think they look better that way, as shown in the following picture.

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?set_albumName=album49&id=aaf&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php > http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?set_albumName=album49&id=aaf&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

To clarify - that is a prototype! Go to sonicblue.com to see what the real thing looks like.

Rob