Boxee is just what your looking for. It supports pandora and has a
great looking interface.
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On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:01 AM, "Rion D'Luz" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Saturday 05 September 2009, AJ ONeal wrote:
I'm looking for something like Pandora, Grooveshark, or Last.fm to
run on my
media server for mostly personal use.
I found a project called SubSonic which looks promising, but is
horridly
ugly.
I haven't tried it, but FWIW:
http://gjukebox.sourceforge.net/
An open source MP3 jukebox that is perfect for home, office or car
use. You're probably familiar with MP3 files and p
erhaps already have a collection of music in MP3 format that you
play on a desktop computer using Winamp, MusicMatch
or similar. So why consider an MP3 jukebox ?
1. A Jukebox will place all your MP3 files in a central location.
It's easier to catalog, locate and play the file
s from a single point of access if you use a dedicated Jukebox.
2. You can put the Jukebox in a closet and run it without a
monitor. You can listen to your music even when your P
C is turned off but can still control is from your PC when you want
to.
3. You can have a single Jukebox serving music to the entire
office or house.
4. You can put the Jukebox near the stereo and take the soundcard
output direct to your high quality stereo amp.
5. The Jukebox runs on Linux. After your PC running Winamp crashes
for the third time that day, you will appreciate a music system that
runs for months or years without interruption.
* Sophisticated selection of random songs If no songs are
selected by users the GJukebox will start playing random selections
of songs. The algorithms used to select songs are very sophisticated
and are based on how often a song is requested by users ( ie it's
popular ) weighted against how recently a song was played. The
Jukebox learns what you like and and have heard recently and
influences the choices, but not so much that it plays the same stuff
over and over.
* Song groups and playlists Many MP3 players include playlists to
permit a collection of songs to be played as a whole. Plenty go
further and permit the contents of a playlist to be played in random
order. GJukebox improves on this through the use of song groups.
When selecting songs at random, Jukebox can be set to include songs
in certain groups exclusively, non-exclusively or to exclude songs
from a group. When organizing your songs you simply create groups to
contain for example, Jazz and Blues. You can then play just Jazz,
just Blues, both or neither ( ie everything else ). Instead of
forcing you to tell the Jukebox explicitly what you want to hear,
you can use the groups to define moods and occasions. It's simple,
logical and powerful.
* Normalizes volume on tracks CDs are recorded at widely
differing recording levels. Constant volume control twiddling is the
bane of life for MP3 users because the tracks tend to be played in a
very random fashion. Globecom Jukebox analyses the loudness for all
MP3 files as they're added to the Jukebox and calculates a value by
which the volume is to be adjusted on playback. You'll hardly need
to touch that volume control.
* Integrated ripper Ripping the entire CD collection is probably
the first thing a new MP3 user does. Globecom makes this simple with
the integrated ripper that includes CDDB lookup to grab the song
titles etc. The ripper is multithreaded so it can encode into MP3 at
the same time that it rips data from the CD.
* Inherently multiuser Song voting through the web UI is simple
and powerful. Different users can have different priorities, they
can have their own playlist queue. Jukebox includes account and
password administration. None of this gets in the way if you want to
use Jukebox on your desktop machine, laptop or a home network. The
anonymous user account takes care of these simple situations.
* Batch import of MP3 files Already have an MP3 collection with
tags inserted ? A script included will import them all into the
database quickly and easily.
* Supports streaming to a remote IceCast server : Globecom
Jukebox can pipe the songs to the internal soundcard or to an
Icecast server elsewhere on the network, or both. From a single
Jukebox you can pump the MP3 data to different machines so in
different rooms you can have individual music sources with unique
song lists.
* Downloading between different Jukeboxen. Have a Jukebox at
work, one in the laptop, and one at home ? No problem to transfer
songs between them using the web UI.
* Written in Perl & PHP Want to change something in the UI ? No
problem - it's written in PHP. It's simple to understand and change.
The daemons that play songs and handle other tasks are written in
Perl and are also easy to modify. Use the source, Luke.
The things that I really want to do are these:
- Play my music from anywhere
- rate my music like / dislike
- tag my music
- buy additional music
- create auto-generated playlists from top 40s in my library
(songs in my library that never made it to the radio don't get
selected)
- be able to add select songs to a personal top 40s list
- create custom playlists
- share streaming non-downloadable music
- identify duplicate songs
- review sound quality of duplicate files and optionally remove
lesser
versions
Any suggestions?
AJ ONeal
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