On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:14:14AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > We have a bunch of music files in our household, and for various reasons > including disk space and only having one set of good speakers it would > be good to play them from our one-box-to-rule-them-all (gateway, DNS, > fileserver, mailserver) rather than from laptops. What's the jukebox > software of choice these days? Is Julie dead? > > Things that would be nice: > - general maturity > - a not-insane level of dependencies on the server > - mature clients: GTK preferred, others (including web based) > acceptable
Amarok has a _lot_ of potential in that it links web-based information about artists (including album covers) but I've had trouble with getting any of its sound engines to work well at the moment (Ubuntu Dapper - was more stable with Breezy for obvious reasons perhaps). Worth looking at though methinks. Denis -- Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia +61 2 9850 6787; http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
