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#1 2010-12-15 11:18:07

hooch
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How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

hi all!

because this is my first post, i just want to say that i really like the arch community. didn't need to post anything until now, but since i switched to arch (2-3 years ago), this forum & wiki always helped me. so thanks!

ok - i want to turn an olld laptop into a jukebox for partys. it is an acer aspire 1692 (Pentium-M 740 1.73GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 64MB). so what i want is nothing than a fast system, playing the music. the music player should have the following (very basic) features: shuffle, fading, queuing, music library and fastness. my current music library contains around 19000 songs (~100gb). i think i would like to use openbox. but i still can't find a music player. i really like mpd but there is no such feature like queuing (for example, having a playlist, and then adding a song as the next song to be played in the cue, and then continue with the playlist).

any suggestions? comments?

thanks!

hooch

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#2 2010-12-15 15:30:57

karol
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

I would like to see you fit 100GB worth of music into an 80GB HDD ;P

Are you saying none of those https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ions#Audio fits your needs?
I would pause mplayer playing the playlist and open another one to play just this track, then return to the first one and continue with the playlist :-) I don't think mplayer supports fast handling of music libraries of ~100GB-size though. How about http://www.clementine-player.org/ ?

Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 15:35:15)

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#3 2010-12-15 15:58:16

hooch
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

yes, just forgot to mention that i won't copy my whole music collection. plenty of classical music in flac, which won't be that popular at parties smile

i tried clementine yesterday and it's my first choice until now, got a good queuing system. i just was wondering if there are some other ideas. it's a pity that there's no such queuing feature for mpd.

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#4 2010-12-15 16:12:15

karol
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

I'm not faimliar with mpd but have you tried http://sonata.berlios.de/ ?

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#5 2010-12-15 16:15:07

hooch
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

yes thanks, i'm using this as my default player on my workstation. but if you add a song there, it will be queued in the end, no possibility to directly queue it after the current song. but i think the best choice will be clementine.

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#6 2010-12-15 18:19:09

karol
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

cmus has the queue / playlist thing but I'm not sure if it can fade a track.
http://gitorious.org/cmus/cmus/blobs/ma … torial.txt

I think clementine is hard to beat.

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#7 2010-12-16 10:35:48

hooch
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

i just checked out cmus. it offers, like you said, fifo queuing but no crossfading. (and won't be supported in future either) i will use clementine. it got a queue manager and playlists. i can queue the song i want to play next and the song where it should continue again. this has the same effect, but is less comfortable.

if i find sth else, i'll post it here.

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#8 2010-12-25 23:16:49

hooch
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Re: How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

my new choice: guayadeque https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26682

it got fifo-queuing as well as "normal" queuing, a fast media library and configurable cross-fading. just perfect for my use.

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