From here backwards.

We have the beginnings of a logo:

And our SCANPI works smoothly and looks all old school in its home. With dish obviously.

The SCANPI home sits on a foundation of the 'big disc'. The big disc has all the music (and pictures, but we don't talk about them yet) collated, collected and randomly accumulated. It has a 'modern' browse interface by way of the SCANPI website (3 pages of PHP), and a 'modern and mobile' browse interface by way of the SCANPIMOB JQuery Mobile website (3 pages of PHP with the JQuery mobile thing).

The thing SCANPI does that we have never seen before (prior to doing it ourselves) is allow old people like me interact with the physical media. I pick up the CD I want to play from the 'shelves' (colour coded obviously), I turn it over and point it at the nearest camera phone, and I then pick the tracks I want to queue up.

In the background is a thing we've called the 'shellplayer'. No references to scampi at all then. The shellplayer is a small pile of shell scripts which play, skip, queue, album, band, track, exit, and reindex. Each function of the shellplayer has it's own letter to make it all simple enough for my gran to interact with.

To understand how it works will take another pile of text to be moulded and ingested by you at a later date. SCANPI, SCANPIMOB and shellplayer don't do everything perfectly yet, and this blog is going to describe 2 simple things;

1. How you get to where we are.
2. The things that are good and bad with here.

If you've got comments already, then stick em in below, or tell me directly.