[lug] Music manager

[Daniel Webb]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:58:18PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Daniel Webb wrote:
>
> >I'm looking for a good music jukebox that stores music centrally but can
> >play and interface on any remote machine (with a 100 GB collection).
> 
> Play and interface?  What does that mean?  What do you want that a 
> player and a mount across the network doesn't give you?

Play is obvious but by interface I meant "update meta-data such as ratings and
play history".  When you work at three different terminals, you lose a lot of
the cool features that any decent player has, such as ratings and play
history, or at least for me that makes those features pointless.  Also, that
means you need to have root access whereever you want to listen to set up the
NFS.

The ideal way to do it would be a Java VNC window to the player and a Java
applet on the terminal that picks up an icecast stream.  Then you have a
single point of interface yet you can play it anywhere.  I got something like
that going once, but it was all by hand so it wasn't worth the effort.  Also,
working with sound stuff in Linux makes me want to break things, and I don't
normally feel like that nor do I want to.

> >Any suggestions?  Debian should have another stable in another year and a
> >half or so, should I just wait for Amarok to work in Debian?
> 
> Etch is scheduled for December.  They may miss that date but I doubt 
> they'll miss it by as much as six months.

That's good to hear.  Sarge is starting to get a bit old already.

> You could try testing, too.

Ech.  Been there.  I'll wait.