Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:54:38 +1000 From: David L <dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> To: jeremy@pavleck.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD up to this job? Message-ID: <200309181754.38835.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200309171833.MAA45872@kashmir.thend.org> References: <200309171833.MAA45872@kashmir.thend.org>
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This is just a long shot, but have you had a look at Freevo? www.freevo.org It runs on FreeBSD David > Hi gang, > I was looking at purchasing a jukebox recently for a poolhall. When > all is said and done, I found a refurbished 100 cd jukebox which I > thought was really nice, until I heard the price - $4500. This is on > par with a lot of older refurbished models, and the price can double > for newer ones! So, the gears in my head started turning, and I > mentally devised a plan to build my own jukebox that does more then > your "standard" juke for a lot less money. Though I am unfortunately > more of a Windows guy, I am thinking of turning to FBSD for this job. > > My plan is to build a custom "jukebox looking" enclosure like everyone > is used to seeing in bars, poolhalls, etc. In place of the CD changer > I'd like to have a full PC (Thinking XP2800, 1GB RAM, 500Gb SATA RAID) > built inside, connected to a CD changer that I can control. This way I > can offer more then just CDs, but mp3s and videos as well. I'd like to > pick up a nice vid card (Say an ATI Radeon 9xxx Pro series with S-Video > out) and setup the S-Video side to stream videos/xmms mp3/cd > visualizations to 6 TVs spread throughout the place. > In place of the normal song selection screen you normally see, I'd like > to place a 17 or 19" LCD that only display 4-8 CD covers & song lists > at a time. > Here's what I need to do: > *Build a catalog of all music and videos on harddrive and CDs in > changer, automatically 1-2 times a day or on demand. > *Output video to a monitor which shows only the music list. For > CD's/mp3s it will show the CD cover and a songlist. Typical jukebox > style with CD's being numbered as well as song (EG. say NOFX's "War on > Errorism" is listed as CD 22 and the song "Mattersville" is track 12, > they'd enter 2212 as the song request). Show anywhere from 4-8 CD's and > song info at a time (depending on screen size) > *Interface with several buttons to control display. A set of NEXT PREV > buttons which "flip through" the virtual catalog, and another set > entitled "Music" and "Videos" which switch display > *When pressing the "Videos" button, I'd like to be able to see the > screen switch to a similar style as the above, only showing a > screenshot of the video, artist name, song title, and album. > *Tell FBSD to listen to a bill validator > (http://www.videocan.com/bill_validator.html - currently waiting for > info from them about interface) for credit inputs, and display it as an > overlay on the screen (Let's say $1 buys 3 songs or 2 videos - display > would show that) > *Once it's determined that there's credits in the machine have FBSD > listen to a keypad (telephone pad style) for input in the style of > XXXX, first 2 being album number, second 2 track number. > *Queue up and keep track of songs to play. mp3s/CDs will launch a > visualization studio to display the music vis to the TVs, or launch > videos to play on TVs. > *When there's no activity, it will enter a screensaver mode where it > changes screens on monitor. > Stuff I'm thinking about adding but isn't necessary - search function, > user inserted CDs (which lock CDtray until song/cd is through playing). > > Although I'm fairly certain FBSD can handle this, I wanted to ask the > experts, to see if I'm right. I'm hoping to have a real easy to operate > jukebox, so I don't want to have to many buttons, keyboards, etc there > to confuse people. And if at all possible, I don't want to make mention > that I'm using FBSD/PC hardware/etc inside (well, except for some > powered by FreeBSD stickers on the back hehe). > Let me know your thoughts! If I go forward with this, it's at least 2 > years away, but I think the idea is fairly sound. > > Thanks, > Jeremy Pavleck > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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