Creative Commons cafe - looking for music player software

[Sean Hammond]

Just a general update on this little Ubuntu project at The Forest cafe:

We're now beginning to install ubuntu on The Forest's computers. The
cafe has two public access machines for free Internet and computer
access which had been running Windows and were full of malware etc.,
both now running Ubuntu and working nicely.

They are interested in getting Ubuntu installed on the Mac that they
use as a jukebox machine to play the music for the cafe. We're looking
into getting this done, and are probably just going to use a standard
Ubuntu. We'll probably use Rhythmbox to play the music as it's similar
to iTunes which is what they use now, we'll use SoundJuicer to let
artists rip their albums onto the jukebox in ogg vorbis, and we'll
probably want to add a tag editor too.

We gave up on the whole projection/visualisation thing. We realised we
probably don't want to run the projector all day, and there is a pub
nearby that plays audio visualisation on TVs to go with the music, and
it just seems really cheesy.

I put together this flyer:

HTML: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntuflyer.html

PS for printing:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntuflyer.ps

to go next to the computers. Others might find it useful to go near
any public facing Ubuntu machines.

I'm going to make sure the The Forest's free shop stays stocked up on
Ubuntu CDs also, once Dapper is released.

Finally, there is now a Free Software hacklab Infoseed:

http://www.infoseed.org/

(yes the site seems to be down now) based in the basement of The
Forest, where we have a lot of Ubuntu machines and do ubuntu installs
and workshops and the like.

On 3/29/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so there is a cafe here in Edinburgh, The Forest
> (http://www.theforest.org.uk/). The forest includes a space for
> independent musicians to record, perform and sell their music, and the
> cafe plays only non-copyright music from these musicians and
> downloaded from creative commons sources.
>
> The cafe plays music from a computer that is connected to a projector,
> they would like to be able to display information through the
> projector about each song as it plays - artist, album, how much you
> can buy it for at the forest or where you can download it from, plus a
> tagline saying 'the forest only uses creative commons music' or
> something. I guess all that could be stored in the meta-data of the
> music files.
>
> So does anyone know of a FLOSS music player that can run fullscreen,
> perhaps but not necessarily displaying some visualisation, and
> displaying this information about each track as it plays, either when
> the song starts or throughout the track?
>
> The Forest also has a mac, so any free (of cost) mac software would
> also be worth knowing about, but proper FLOSS is preferable.
>
> Recommendations?
>
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