theme song: cartoon heroes

Yay!  I finally have my Raspberry Pi configured to do what I intended!  It's currently playing Aqua's "Cartoon Heroes" repeatedly, so it is now officially today's theme song.  :)

I have now successfully configured my Raspberry Pi headless (without monitor, keyboard, or mouse) to autoplay a music file continuously after bootup.  This solution will be a cheap setup we could use at work across all of our sites for:

1. phone "music on hold", 
2. enrichment music for the cat and dog areas, and
3. remotely updated music files (and volume control) from our central office.

I'll eventually blog to document the many details of the process.  The Pi seems inherently unable to play music files outside of cd-format.  I couldn't get alternatives to work well, so I just resampled "Cartoon Heroes" to 44100 Hz at 16 bit so it would work on my Raspberry Pi.  I also somehow ran out of drive space temporarily on my 4GB SD memory card.  At least it does finally work, though.  Details of the process later, I promise.

Time for the tech support superhero dance.  (see the animated penguin icon at the upper left)  *laugh*