ping Brian: one button audiobook player

[Owain]

I can't find the thread where Brian was discussing distributing his talking newspaper.

Someone has developed a one-button audiobook player using the Raspberry Pi computer.

When you plug in a USB thumb drive with a special name/label, the Raspberry will stop playing, mount the thumb drive, deletes the old audio book, copies the new one, rebuilds the playlist and =96 after unplugging the thumb drive =96 starts the new audiobook in pause mode.

At the moment it just loads books off the USB drive, but probably a networkable version could be developed.

[Brian Gaff]

Sounds interesting. A heck of a lot of computing for a simple device though I guess integration is pretty cheap these days. Brian