Installing emphatic
The first
thing you need to do is unzip the distribution archive
somewhere on your PC. Inside the archive you'll find,
among other things, two install scripts:
install-emphatic.sh:
a bash script
to be used on Unix-like platforms
install-emphatic.bat:
a Windows
batch file
Both scripts
are provided to automate the process of copying the emphatic
binary and configuration files to
your empeg. They will also, if you choose, add an entry to your
config.ini file to launch emphatic on
startup. The sequence of steps is the same for both scripts,
though the prompts may look slightly
different.
Once you've
decided which script you'll be using, run it from the PC where
you've unzipped the emphatic archive, and
answer the on-screen prompts. You'll be asked for the
following information:
-
The IP
address of your empeg (e.g. 192.168.1.3
)
-
The
directory on your empeg where you'd like to place
emphatic's files (e.g. /usr/local/bin
). If the path you provide doesn't exist, it will be
created if possible.
-
Whether
you want the install script modify your config.ini
for you,
so that emphatic is launched
automatically on startup.
-
Whether
you want the "Favorites" custom shuffle mode added to your
config.ini to enable shuffle based on song
rating.
-
Whether
you want to set aside some extra player memory for emphatic
and other 3rd party apps.
-
Whether
you want your song ratings initialized by emphatic
Once you've
provided this information, the script will tell you what it's
going to do, and ask you if you want to continue the
installation. If you answer yes, the script will FTP files over
to the empeg, and execute a
post-install script on the empeg which will modify
config.ini
for
you. Once this process is
complete, you can run emphatic manually, or reboot your empeg
if you chose to have it launch
on startup. If something goes wrong, it's more than likely that
you specified an incorrect IP
address for your empeg, or an install path that didn't exist
and couldn't be created on your
empeg.