Creative Commons cafe - looking for music player software

[Sean Hammond]

I think we're just looking for an app we can run locally on a PC that
will play music from a folder on that PC and display some info about
the music and maybe visualisation. If an artist wants to add music,
just put the CD into this PC, SoundJuicer will be set to rip
accordingly to the right folder.

The Forest already has streaming audio from their artists on the website, see:

http://www.theforest.org.uk/music/forestradioLD.swf

and

http://www.theforest.org.uk/music/

If you're interested in doing something along these lines with them, I
suggest contacting them directly by their message board:

http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/

On 3/29/06, Chris Dawson <xrdawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, this looks great.  I want to do something similar, and wrote it
> up over as a project for Portland, OR, USA.  I called it Bawdry:
>
> http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Bawdry
>
> What format are you intending to use?  If you used Ogg Vorbis then you
> could use a java player within a browser, and then skin Firefox to do
> whatever you wanted.  There is a java player with ogg vorbis
> (JOrbisPlayer http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/) support which works well,
> and can retrieve the song information from the live stream as it
> plays.  So, you could just build a little bit of javascript/html/java
> code and easily change the skins, even allowing that to be customized
> at the coffee shop.
>
> I'd love to collaborate if you need helpers.  I've got lots of
> programming skills and experience with streaming audio and multimedia.
>
> Chris
>
> On 3/29/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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