Common practice is to install non-standard binaries in /usr/local/bin.
This directory is in the PATH, so you can use the tools right away.
No need to set up a cross compiler.

Pim

Hrmm, Well I guess my next problem is. I saw you speaking on thsi earlier not sure if its the same thing though.


I have my Music stored on an ext3 filesystem on my linux box.

My windows machine accesses the Music via samba share .

I add music to the Linux box from windows via the windows samba share.

Would this be the reason that mp3tofid seems to do a full run everytime I run it? Would I have to do everything from the linux box
in order for mp3tofid to work correctly?

Provided you did the following:
- move your music to the linux ext3 filesystem
- run mp3tofid
- rsync to your player
- add or change this through samba on a windows client
- run mp3tofid again
- run rsync again

then you should see mp3tofid only rescans changed and
new tunes, unless you force it using a commandline switch.

If mp3tofid did not rescan unchanged tunes on the second
run, then the second rsync should be fast too.

Pim

PIM thanks for all your help. i am currently putting together a guide to help those who were like me and dont know where to start.

I have rsync and mp3tofid working great thanks to you.

However my next question is. Is it possible to have a script on your local mp3 machine that runs mp3tofid and then sends a command that executes the rsync script on your empeg.

This way you wont have to run mp3tofid on your local mp3 machine. Then log into your empeg and run the rsync script.

It would be nice to have one script to run on your local mp3 machine.

I know that you would need rsh on the empeg and the local mp3 machine. Im not exactly sure where to get rsh for the empeg from.
Or what kind of script i would run. Do you have any experience setting this up or could give me assistance on doing so.


If thats not possible is it possible to run a cronjob on the empeg.
So i can have it periodically rsync.

Yes, there's both rsh and in.rshd in this tarball.
A daemon might be more difficult set up though.

You might also consider putting your script in a hijack menu.

Pim

So how do I install the debian package without messing up my empeg install?

Crossposted. See reply in troubleshooting thread. Thanks.