http://www.clashfindergeneral.co.uk/s/leeds10/

You should then be able to update the package list and install the amazon package using dpkg -i amazonmp3.deb or using the gdebi GUI program.

Just downloaded the new Chemical Brothers album for £3 - good old Amazon (even if they do evade VAT by being based in Luxemburg)

No problem, just run the server, tell it where your music is. It’ll index it all then provide album/artist searches via your xbox music interface.

job’s a good ‘un!

My existing wifi dongle doesn’t work with the box, and official ones cost about 40 quid so thought I’d try a bit of linux iptables to get the xbox live connection working

(internet)   ---phone line-->  bthomehub  --wifi-->   laptop   ---wired--->   xbox

This told me how to get the ports forwarded on my laptop:

http://www.portalstorm.net/guides/xboxlive.php

iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -s 192.168.2.0/24 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 88 -i wlan0 -j DNAT --to 192.168.2.x
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 3074 -i wlan0 -j DNAT --to 192.168.2.x
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 3074 -i wlan0 -j DNAT --to 192.168.2.x
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.2.x --sport 88 -j MASQUERADE --to-ports 88
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.2.x --sport 3074 -j MASQUERADE --to-ports 3074
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.2.x --sport 3074 -j MASQUERADE --to-ports 3074

then I need to set my bt home hub up for forwarding the ports from the internet onto my laptop

I don’t have the password for my router (my housemate has the account) so I’ve had to use uPnP to get it working.

installed http://packages.debian.org/gupnp-tools

then I can “invoke” uPnP methods on the router to tell it to open new ports for me.

ports 88 and 3074 UDP, and port 3074 TCP

Need to be able to script the upnp step, or find out the password for the router, to make this a more complete solution.

Alternatively, if I could just bridge the wired and wireless connections using linux then my xbox would pick up a DHCP address from the router and do uPnP directly.

This article has a useful perl script which does just that

The bit that does the actual work is quite simple:

<snip>

125     ## go through the file one line at a time
126     while (my $line = <STDIN>) {

<snip>

140             ## set a flag when we encounter the table we want
141             if ($line =~ /^-- Table structure for table `$conf{'tableName'}`/) {
142                 $flag = 1;
143                 printmsg("Turning flag on", 1);
144             }
145             ## turn flag off as soon as we encounter next table definition
146             elsif ($line =~ /^-- Table structure for table/) {
147                 $flag = 0;
148                 printmsg("Turning flag off", 1);
149             }
150
151             ## if flag is set, then print to STDOUT, otherwise just move on
152             if ($flag) {
153                 print $line;
154             }

<snip>

156     }

rsync --modify-window=2 -avz Documents/ /media/LACIE/Documents/

The –modify-window is because the fat32 filesystem on my USB disk has lower precision when it comes to time so rsync thinks all the files have been modified.  This flag sets a window of 2 seconds.