[Guide] Add Songs to an ITG Machine.

[mute]

Quick question: how long exactly would the entire process take (or at least how long would it take for a newbie like me)?

Depends greatly on how much custom content you're adding. Realistically, I could take a completely un-hacked machine and throw on a custom theme and ~1000 custom songs in about 20 minutes, and that's including the time it takes SLAX to boot and to transfer all the custom content.

Well I already have tons of songs on it (it's been hacked before), though I'm still probably gonna add a lot of better song packs, the ITG3 theme, and a lot of marathons.
How many songs can a dedi usually hold? Like around 2500?

To be perfectly honest, this guide is extremely convoluted and some of it is even outdated. I've been considering making a video tutorial. I already have a text-based tutorial typed up that I just never bothered to post.

Ooh I'd love to see your method if it's more up to date.

Alright, I posted my guide.

As for how many songs a machine can hold, again that can vary greatly. Song length, song bitrate, and graphics are all factors. The hda5 partition is 10 GB. I have ~6 GB of custom stuff on my machine currently, which works out to 1300 songs. So I'd say you could easily get 2000 songs on there.

Side note: Ew, ITG3 theme. Why do people still use that?

[Case]

Okay, a couple of things:

• Some machines (like mine) don't have that "Roxor" screen at which you can press F11 to get into the boot menu. In that case, you need to hit the Delete key at the BIOS booting screen (the one with the Energy Star logo). From there, you can change the BIOS settings so that the machine's first boot priority is "USB-HDD" instead of "Hard Drive." Reboot and the machine will boot from your SLAX drive.

• One extremely easy way to circumvent the BIOS password is to simply remove the security dongle for 15-30 seconds prior to turning the machine on. Put the dongle back in, flip the power switch, and you'll have no password prompt when hitting F11 at the Roxor screen.

• Your method of using <2 GB .zip files and the old command-line text SLAX is extremely outdated. The newer versions of SLAX (current version is 6.1.2, iirc) have a much more user-friendly GUI. From there, it's a simple copy/paste process of one's "custom" folder from an external drive. This also eliminates the problem of having any one file over 2 GB in size, which would severely limit the amount of custom content you could add. (The HDA5 partition is 10 GB, so you can fit way more than 2 GB worth of extra stuff on it.) For this method, I highly recommend using 2 separate drives for the hacking process: one for SLAX in the front USB slot, and a second drive containing all the custom content plugged into the back USB slot (which is USB 2.0 and thus way faster for transferring your custom content.)

You can do more then 2gbs, just in the command line, you can only do 2gbs at once, so you could do it several times, it wouldn't matter.

The guide isn't done, the reason the text commands are given in favor of the GUI is the inability to use a mouse if you only have access to just the 2 front ports.

All of this works, this is what I did to do my machine 3 weeks ago.

[mute]

All of this works, this is what I did to do my machine 3 weeks ago.

I'm not saying this doesn't work, it's just not written very coherently. It's semi difficult for me to follow (and I've hacked machines), so a newbie would likely not be able to follow it. Using SLAX 6.1.2 with its GUI would be far more intuitive for most people. You can still use a mouse too if you want; either use a USB hub to get enough ports, or an old school (non-USB) mouse plugged directly into the computer. It's completely unnecessary though since the only commands you're using are ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy/paste, and alt+L/R arrows to navigate the finder window.

[Case]

Replacement USB if Anyone needs one.

(Looks the exact same except its USB 2.0)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817111705

I'll add this to the guide when I have sometime to work on it again.


Mute- It's not done, it says incomplete. The entire beginning is not apart of the guide yet because I think the method you used is antiquated, so I am trying to find a simpler method.

[TYLR]

[spoiler]Side note: Ew, ITG3 theme. Why do people still use that?

For some bizarre reason, it's the only theme that seems to work on our machine.

[Xythar]

Is there something wrong with the ITG3 theme that I'm unaware of? I tried a bunch when we initially set up our oITG box and it seemed like by far the most polished.

[SM MaxX]

Is there something wrong with the ITG3 theme that I'm unaware of? I tried a bunch when we initially set up our oITG box and it seemed like by far the most polished.

One problem is that there's like 474986389623 versions out there, which is rather annoying.

[Xythar]

I just went with the latest version from here: https://github.com/openitg/itg3theme and made some machine specific changes for stuff that we needed. I imagine other people have probably made their own modded versions but that's not really the theme's fault.

[mute]

Is there something wrong with the ITG3 theme that I'm unaware of?

Yeah, it's insanely fucking ugly.

[TYLR]

You're on crack.

[Xythar]

Eh, graphical appreciation is almost entirely subjective so to each his own I guess

[SM MaxX]

Is there something wrong with the ITG3 theme that I'm unaware of?

Yeah, it's insanely fucking ugly.

Yeah, maybe Banzaigtv?'s version.

[Case]

I used ITG3 on my oITG machine, but since I am playing on an ITG machine I am sort of bias and stick with default, but I am pretty curious to see Jayce's new 8-bit esk theme.


Next week I am hoping to have some real time to work on this. My goal with it is to help people who know NOTHING about Linux install this. I am a power user, so I try to assume that whoever is reading this may know nothing. I am going to add simple How Tos, And a simple version of how to set it up.

[mute]

You're on crack.

This is just incredibly ugly to me.



Every time I see a screenshot from the ITG3 theme I want to vomit. Seriously. Everything is way too cramped and busy, the fonts aren't that great, the clashing blue/yellow colors suck, and the layout is shameful. Especially the usage of trapezoidal frames.

[SM MaxX]

You really are the first person to say all of that sucks (and your probably gonna vomit more because I'm hacking it in today ).
But then again I think the Chromatic layout is subpar.
/subjectivemania