MP3 Jukeboxes with a Web Frontend?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 9, 2003 @09:30AM from the I've-gotta-build-me-one-of-these dept.

johnmearns asks: "With hard drive prices so low I couldn't help but pick up a large drive and finally get around to setting up a file server in my house. I normally do all my home computing from my laptop and would like to play mp3s stored on the fileserver back through my stereo. I've found lots of nice streaming mp3 server packages like NetJuke, but I don't want to stream. I would like a player that offers controls that I could access via a web interface from any machine on the LAN. Many of the alternatives I've found seem to have a nasty interface and have been abandoned for years. I thought I'd check and see if other Slashdot readers were using for this. Preferably it would work easily with FreeBSD, but I'm not picky at this point!"

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I'll pipe up really quick... by ActiveSX · 2003-04-09 10:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

I realize that others have mentioned some other suitable products, but I thought I might mention JWZ's Gronk. It's nice because it'll do both streaming and local playback, and doesn't rely on an SQL database (which is honestly overkill in this situation).