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February 8th, 2008, 09:51 AM
I have a set of lights with nice filters (red, green, yellow), and I would like to use these as discolights. Has any of you heard of a plugin for any music player (mp3) that sends a signal to the parallel port?
I already have plans to build a circuit to "upgrade" the signal to 220 V using a transistor and a relay and of course external power (http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/18826638#relais - article in Dutch, but with a picture). The transistor is perhaps not necessary, but more than one website advises to use it to increase the life expectancy of the parallel port. I might go for plan B (not in any picture), using a solid state relay... They don't make the annoying -click-click- sound, so I can use the lights also when there's no massive party going on with the speakers at max. volume. :D
All I need right now is a plugin that understands the music. :)
I think that with more or less lights to control, the plugin might have to be different... I have 3 lights.
I used to have such a plugin for winamp (a friend of mine wrote it), but I am not sure if it works using Wine and Winamp under Ubuntu 7.10... if I can't find a Linux-audioplayer plugin, I'll try this next. I still need to build the circuit, so there is time.
I already have plans to build a circuit to "upgrade" the signal to 220 V using a transistor and a relay and of course external power (http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/18826638#relais - article in Dutch, but with a picture). The transistor is perhaps not necessary, but more than one website advises to use it to increase the life expectancy of the parallel port. I might go for plan B (not in any picture), using a solid state relay... They don't make the annoying -click-click- sound, so I can use the lights also when there's no massive party going on with the speakers at max. volume. :D
All I need right now is a plugin that understands the music. :)
I think that with more or less lights to control, the plugin might have to be different... I have 3 lights.
I used to have such a plugin for winamp (a friend of mine wrote it), but I am not sure if it works using Wine and Winamp under Ubuntu 7.10... if I can't find a Linux-audioplayer plugin, I'll try this next. I still need to build the circuit, so there is time.