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Topic: How to turn a laptop into a dedicated foobar jukebox (XP)? (Read 2865 times) previous topic - next topic
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How to turn a laptop into a dedicated foobar jukebox (XP)?

I'm planning to turn an old 11" XP laptop into a dedicated foobar player/jukebox, attached to my tuner. I'd like to minimize the windows install without crippling the audio or network capabilities so foobar can be controlled via wifi and stream across the network. I assume I'm not the first to embark on this endeavor, but cannot seem to find any guides/tutorials or other relevant posts. I remember reading about someone using nLite to make an 'audiophile' micro/tiny edition of XP. If such an installation or configuration is still around that would save me a lot of work, so if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be very welcome indeed. If all else fails I'll just have to start from scratch using nLite an my XP disc and see how it goes.

How to turn a laptop into a dedicated foobar jukebox (XP)?

Reply #1 –
XP has a pretty small footprint, especially of you do not install any junk on it after your clean install of XP and then fb2k. Unless your XP laptop is severely underpowered, I see no reason to use nLite etc. All you need with your standard fb2k install is the foo_upnp component - that way the laptop can be a upnp server or client. You can stream to it from anywhere or simply stick some external USB hard drives on it for local playback. If it is XP Pro, you can even remote desktop to it and control fb2k like that as well.

How to turn a laptop into a dedicated foobar jukebox (XP)?

Reply #2 –
You probably want TinyXP or MicroXP by eXPerience. It has unnecessary services stripped out and several reg tweaks that disable things not necessary unless you are in an enterprise environment. Much lower memory and hard drive footprint.

How to turn a laptop into a dedicated foobar jukebox (XP)?

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the feedback, I'll have a look at the Tiny/Micro configs and see if I can use them on my copy of XP (pro indeed). I prefer to minimize both footprint and install even on XP since it is a very underpowered net/notebook indeed.