Kurt Wrote: > Is there any software or skin that can put the Slim into a true Jukebox > mode? For instance, just display albums with track names, and play > whatever ever track you choose, and force the following choices to go > to the end of the list, and lock out everything else? > > This would be great for a party where guests can choose the music. > The trouble now is that someone will come along and put a bunch of > music in the queue, and the next person picks a song and presses play > or next instead of "add to playlist" and the existing lineup is > trashed. To really make it usable in such a scenario, you'd need a few more constraints. Keep in mind that a commercial jukebox has a critical limiting factor - $money. You generally don't get a single person stacking the jukebox for the whole night, just because it usually costs too much.
You'd want (configurable) controls such as: - Only tracks, not albums could be queued. Otherwise it's too easy for someone to load up an hour or two of music in a shot. - You'd want to limit the number of tracks that could be added to N per M minutes. This would effectively limit how many tracks someone can add at one time. A good way to do this would be to add credits every N minutes, or else when there's less than some number of songs remaining in the queue. - Optionally, limit the length of a tune that can be played to under N seconds. Keeps people from playing stuff like the 33 minute Allman Brothers' "Mountain Jam" (that was in a CD jukebox in a bar I used to go to - it was killed by the bartender within 10 seconds of starting any time someone played it). - Also optionally, no STOP or POWER OFF, no FFW, no RWD, no skipping tracks without some kind of authorization code. Cool idea, but I'm guessing a lot of work to implement. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20924 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
