networked mp3 player with lcd display

[rterren]

I just started reading about this project today while poking around some Arduino posts.  I am a noob and have never tried anything like this before, so please excuse the question if I daft, I did search the forums and came up with nothing.

My question is, could the Raspberry Pi be used as a wired network MP3 player, connecting to say a shoutcast or icecast server, to play an MP3 stream as a Line level output (or adjustable headphone volume), all while displaying some MP3 song data on an attached LCD multi-line display?

I know this is not trivial, I am thinking if the hardware is able to do something like this and if there is a compatible LCD multi-line display available this may be a fun project for me to work towards.  I did it previously with a set top box from Patriot Memory Systems, but there was no way to attach an LCD display, and it cost alot more.

I figure I would use something like madplayer or mplayer and the alsa package.  A "stage 2" bonus would be if there is a physical button that I could tap to cycle from one pre-programmed IP to another so I could switch streams.

Thanks

Ron

[lesliew]

Ron

Here's an idea for a really cheap USB display and some instructions to get it up and running.  Those instructions should work fine for the Pi.



http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,2435

You just need to find a way to capture the song data from whatever music service you decide to use and write it out to the display.

[bredman]

For information on multi-line LCD displays, have a look at

http://www.raspberrypi.org/for.....lcd-screen

[rterren]

Thanks very much now if I could actually get a board I would be all set lol...I was told they are back ordered until August!