Recommendation for web-based jukebox for the office?

[TravisNave]

Hey all,

So we play music at the office thru ceiling speakers that are run thru stereo equipment that is fed by a Windows workstation.  We have a pretty good library of music from our collections.  Right now we make setlists and just let them play randomly. 

I think it would be great if the users could access a webpage and hit it like a jukebox and request songs that will automagically queue up.  When not in request mode, it would, of course play randoms still, but requests would take precedence.  Kinda like those jukebox kiosks at local bars and stuff.  I don't want to stream to local machines, just have it play from the media server over the speaker system.

Anybody have any good software recommendations for that? 

Thanks.

[pendean]

A real Jukebox, place it in the corner of the break room for eveyone to access: they can punch in their requests while they get coffee instead of getting distracted while working by scrolling thourgh music options all day long.

[TravisNave]

Funny but true, Dean. Hahaha maybe I can make a few bucks too. 😄

[Murph_Map]

I just remembered something, a long time ago back when the forums were on the NTTP format and there was the Take 5 group one of it's members wrote an VBA routine to play music in AutoCAD. I think it even shown a playlist and users could add to it as they wanted. I forget who wrote it but it worked OK in windows 3.1 and win 95. Maybe someon can try to tackle the task with today's OS in a dot net app. 

[GilesPhillips]

I've always maintained that Autocad is the tool you can fashion into any other tool, but I've never considered music as an applicaton. 

Might have to look into that.

If you're looking for a standalone software solution, I use media monkey as a music player & library manager - given it's popularity I'm sure there's a web interface available for it as well.

[jggerth]

Back when, I set up a Beos machine with "Be in your Stereo" as a home music server.  Looks like it's still around...  I may poke around with once again, but generally just stream folkalley.com @ home.  In the office, IT considers such things verboten.  big company attitudes..... 

http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/entertainment/internet-network/be-in-your-stereo

[TravisNave]

For an update, I found a good solution for this. 

To summarize, I wanted a democratic web-based interface to choose music that will be played on a central server which plays over the building speaker system.  This is not a streaming solution from a server to individuals, but a shared playlist. 

My solution:

Download MediaMonkey 4.  It is free.  It has party mode.

Add on the MediaMonkey Web Interface 1.2.1.  It allows for a web-based interface to the MediaMonkey server.  Its party mode will allow searching and adding of songs to the end of the playlist.  Between requests, autoplays are added from the library.  It has lockout settings and other restrictions.  It is brilliant.

http://mmwi.monosolutions.dk/gb

Thanks everyone.

[jggerth]

did you remember to get the public performance lisensing from the RIAA?

[TravisNave]

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@jggerth wrote:

did you remember to get the public performance lisensing from the RIAA?

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