web-enabled jukebox?

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evandy

Enthusiast
Has anyone seen a CD jukebox that's web-enabled? I was thinknig that it would be nice to be able to load up #00 discs, and then tell it which one to play via a web interface.
 
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jfalk

Audioholic Intern
No. I used to have a CD jukebox and got rid of it once I went to a Squeezebox solution. Jukeboxes are just an inferior technological option: (1) long lags between CDs, making it almost impossible to program anything other than one CD after another (2) A nightmare to catalog, since the jukebox has no intelligence to know what CD you've placed in what spot. That could be overcome, I suppose, through some sort of web-enabled Gracenote technology, but a purely memory based solution seems completely superior, other than the time required to rip the CDs.
 
highfigh

highfigh

Seriously, I have no life.
Has anyone seen a CD jukebox that's web-enabled? I was thinknig that it would be nice to be able to load up #00 discs, and then tell it which one to play via a web interface.
Is this for residential or commercial use? If you want what amounts to a music server, one solution is ReQuest. Theirs have a drawer for loading the music to be stored on the hard drive, it can save a .wav or FLAC for listening locally through an audio system (analog and digital outputs) and an .MP3 for streaming via the local network or the internet. The server has its own IP address, which can be saved as a bookmark/favorite on any computer and it can be used by more than one computer at any time, as well as controlled for listening through the audio system without any interaction between them, unless someone changes settings, turns it off or something like that while it's being used. The new models are NAS-enabled, so storage isn't limited by an internal network drive, like the models that are more than about a year old (they just recently came out with the NAS version). They have keypads available and control with a computer isn't limited to Windows. They also have a program that synchs the library with iTunes on computers- this does have differences WRT Apple vs Windows.

If you want to access the music online, you would go to the Arqlink site and log in. Anyone who knows the login and password can stream from that server anytime, from any location, on any computer.

If you want a network Jukebox for a bar/restaurant that takes money, Rowe makes those.
 
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krzywica

krzywica

Audioholic Samurai
The best solution I have seen is open source and is multiplatform. The server portion runs on virtually anything and the client portion is extremely flexible as you can run it right in a web browser and it also has dedicated clients for iPhone and Android and other platforms.

http://ampache.org/

A little more description in what you are trying to accomplish exactly would be helpful. :)
 
krzywica

krzywica

Audioholic Samurai
Oh also if you want me to make you an account so you can try it out I can do that.....just PM me. :)
 
BMXTRIX

BMXTRIX

Audioholic Warlord
The new digital media servers also offer a fair amount of interface options which I don't believe all need to be on screen. AppleTV, one of the worst, has their iPhone controlling application for sure.

Control systems (Crestron/AMX) have similar web applications which will take any fully featured media server and allow it to go online.

I'm not sure what capabilities DuneHD or Popcorn Hour offer, but I would expect there is some capability from them for online control
 
krzywica

krzywica

Audioholic Samurai
The new digital media servers also offer a fair amount of interface options which I don't believe all need to be on screen. AppleTV, one of the worst, has their iPhone controlling application for sure.

Control systems (Crestron/AMX) have similar web applications which will take any fully featured media server and allow it to go online.

I'm not sure what capabilities DuneHD or Popcorn Hour offer, but I would expect there is some capability from them for online control
From what I have seen though 99% of those "web streaming" servers require dedicated clients on the other end. The one I suggested is nice as it can run on any OS, and you don't need a client on the other end as it can run and play music in a web browser. :)
 
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