Re: Jukebox showing played file ?

I have a feeling this is something Blake's netjuke2 plug-in interface is 
designed to handle, so it might not be too far off from happening...

-- 
Steven

On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:18 am, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:14:54PM +0100, Christophe Zwecker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use netjuke to play music with xmms or winamp. Now I want to setup a
> > new server to play it as jukebox from server soundcard to my stereo
> > system. I can see I can make jukebox playlists and start jukebox, but
> > isnt there a way to fast forward or see which file is beeing played ?
> > Maybe there is an addon ?
>
> I'm not sure if there's an add-on.
>
> You might look at slimp3.  It maintains centrally managed play lists
> and streams the output to the player.  So you can connect from any
> client (browser), select the stream device (the computer running xmms)
> and view and modify its play list.
>
> Netjuke has a better interface, though, but is lacking that remote
> control that slimp3 has.  But that remote control doesn't work well
> because the control of the player is really just controlling the stream
> fed to the player.  So, there's a big delay between actions on the
> interface and the player.  It can take 30 seconds before a "skip song"
> action actually happens on slimp3 streaming to xmms.
>
> I want a mix of netjuke and slimp3.  I want the play lists managed
> on a central server and play lists passed to xmms (like Netjuke does
> now) but a separate control channel to the player from the server so
> that actions (like skip a song or pause) happen in real time, and I can
> monitor what the player is doing remotely.


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