Raspberry Pi = Portable MP3 Player with 128GB USB of music ?

[MagicM1ND]

Hello RPi community

I find Raspberry Pi very interesting project from about few months and now I have idea for which I could use this device to make it very usable for me. I want to make my own Portable MP3 Player for my collection of music which is very huge.

I want to buy small TFT LCD screen (or use one which I have for Nokia N93 but never used it), few buttons, case to which I would be able to fit this device, some battery pack and 128 GB USB which would store all of my music collection. I'm an IT person who have knowledge about computers and little bit of C++/C# and is after finishing college.

I have been looking around but can't find anything about making something like this. Any ideas please ? I was wondering if Raspberry is able to use/handle 128GB USB devices for storing and reading data ? I don't mind to have few partitions of different music genres because of File System Limitations.

P.S This is my first project like this in my life.

[DirkS]

Yes, I would say that's possible... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=raspb ... 20&bih=947
Googling for 'raspberry pi mp3 player' should keep you busy for a while...

[MagicM1ND]

I have done this and I came to that I should take everything step by step rather than do everything at the same time. Tho I'm still confused how to write MP3 Player as well as from which I should really start.

[riklaunim]

Would be a lot of learning to make it all working. Did you look at modern mp3 players? There is a lot of them with various features. That would be a vastly quicker way (although without hacking anything).

[MagicM1ND]

Would be a lot of learning to make it all working. Did you look at modern mp3 players? There is a lot of them with various features. That would be a vastly quicker way (although without hacking anything).

What do you mean by hacking and modern mp3 players ? I already have 16x2 screen display, do you maybe know where I can get that board and buttons for my raspberry pi on amazon or at least how they are called ? I also need simple script which would play the songs. I don't want to buy MP3 because I know they don't have enough space for my music collection . I know, I know I can buy that shitty Apple product which have 120GB of memory but I rather do it myself on raspberry than spending hundreds on the thing which I could do by myself.

P.S I was wondering if I can use wxpython to write MP3 Player for my raspberry pi as there is plenty of examples and even tutorials on MP3 Players in python. Also I found this:

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/ ... p3-player/