[NTLUG:Discuss] Web-based Streaming Music Jukebox Server

[Kyle Davenport]

From: Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
> I am looking for a web-based streaming music jukebox server ... uhm ...
> thingy.  There are a bunch out there so I wondered if anyone had any
> recommendations.
>
> The specific feature that I am looking for is the ability to rate songs
> (1-5 or whatever) and then create a random playlist based on the
> ratings.  There seem to be a few that *almost* do what I want but I
> haven't seen one yet that sounds quite perfect.

I was just looking at those too.  My first requirement was cataloging all
my media, but only some of them would I digitize and stream.  That meant I
wasn't going to stick all the cd's into a drive just to do a cddb.
Wouldn't you know, there's a very cool product out there, Readerware, that
runs on linux and allows you to scan the upc code on the cd cover to do a
lookup.  It let me use my old :CueCat to scan with!  Java, SQL, export to
web or palm, you name it.  I haven't been able to find a bug in it yet.
$80 is a steal for something like this. </end product endorsement>

I've tried these so far:
GlobeCom Jukebox  -  nice interface
Mserv             - comprehensive and uses ratings
PrivateRadio      - radio station metaphor
Sajber Jukebox    - supports streaming
Tunez             - voting system, cute interface
DigitalDJ         - very nice automation of cd ripping and catalog into a
mysql database

My main criterion was streaming/categorizing web stations and the best one
I found for that was Streamtuner.

Kyle