Thanks to everyone, I will try the latest winamp for now.
-----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: jukebox application On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:30 -0500, you wrote: >is there something out there that would turn my computer in to a jukebox >so someone that does not have any computer skills could select and queue up >songs to play and hopefully it would work well with window-eyes and maybe be >free or not very expensive? If they don't have any computer skills, what kind of interface would you have them use? Telephone and voice recognition? Do you want the ability to cue music to be local or remote? Will the playback be over local audio device or Internet-streamed? Will the end user be blind or sighted? There used to be a device the size of one rack space whose name I forget which was ideal for this very purpose. The Windows or Linux server shared an XML file with titles of streamable material and streamed it to the aforementioned device. The device itself was Linux-based and there was loose talk about adding speech capability to the interface, but unfortunately the hardware stopped being made and supported, hence, so did the software. There is a package from oddsock.org that will do what you want, but it takes a good level of computer skill to set it up at the broadcast/streaming end, and definitely a computer with a browser to select the material from the user end. Go to http://www.oddsock.org and see if it's still there and maybe it might meet your needs. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
