Bug#267912: O: distmp3 -- A Perl client and daemon for distributed audio encoding
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the distmp3 package.
The package description is:
The distmp3 package contains a client, distmp3, and a daemon, distmp3host,
which can be installed on many machines to provide fast distributed encoding
of music (typically from a CD-ripper or batch script) using an encoder of
your choice - usually MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or flac.
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abcde is one such CD ripper wrapper which has builtin support for distmp3 and
can use it very efficiently, especially in the case where the machine with the
best CD-ROM drive is unable to encode the extracted audio at a satisfactory
speed.
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The current tradeoff is that the client may not pass command-line arguments to
the encoder being run on the machines running the distmp3hosts.
Distmp3 is a package in top condition; there are a few wishlist bugs,
one fairly hairy, and one unreproducible one. I no longer have an
interest in maintaining it ever since I got my new workstation which
obsoleted the need for me to use distmp3. I also need to go to school
soon and I need to lighten my package load.
Maintaining this package will require a rudimentary command of Perl.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
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