Creative Commons cafe - looking for music player software

[Sean Hammond]

Looking around...

Totem can display decent fullscreen visualisation with Goom... but it
doesn't display song information in this mode. And I'm not sure if
Totem will deal well with huge playlists (we basically want to load
The Forest's entire music library at once and play it on random all
day, so huge playlists have to be handled very reliably).

Rhythmbox, Muine and Banshee are all very nice and seem to offer
pretty good ways of handling huge music libraries and playlists, but
none of them seem to have any fullscreen visualisation or song
information mode... Muine does display the album cover as a song
plays, so that's something. But we don't really want to be projecting
the music player GUI on to the wall all day (even if it is a really
nice GUI).

XMMS and BMP don't seem to offer anything either - although there may
be a visualisation plugin for one of these that I'm not aware of that
may have the features needed. It would need to work very reliably
though. i.e. not crash at all when running all day.

Quod Libet doesn't seem to have anything suitable out of the box either.

I haven't tried Amarok...

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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