How about this software for a Jukebox?

[mvaughn]

I'm sure some of you have seen this but others may not.  I came across this yesterday while perusing some bookmarks I haven't visited in ages.

It is geared for a jukebox/media player interface for a car-puter.  It could easily be adapted for use in a home jukebox as long as you don't mind the references to GPS navigation.

check it out...

http://www.mediaengine.org/index.php

there is a ton more info here too...

http://www.mp3car.com

[mvaughn]

ohh yeah... it's skinnable and free too!

[Brad Lee]

Its pretty cool, I was playin with it today

I havent tried it on my mame PC, but it runs fairly quick on my main PC, which is slower. It handles a large number of mp3's(~250 albums worth). It appears to hook into winamp pretty tightly, and uses winamp visualizations

Says it'll integrate video(mpg avi others) right in with audio(lots of formats) but I didnt have any videos handy to test with

[Brad Lee]

As usual, I got distracted while setting up media engine. Checked out the mp3car.com site. Found a couple more apps that are all pretty similar to this- simple screens designed to handle audio/video/fm/executables/gps/etc

So go to www.mp3car.com and check out 'software' on the menu bar, theres about 10 progs there.

Auto-Play is what Im checking out at work today, looks like a real simple playlist based media player, skinnable. Comes bundled with winamp 2.90 and a couple vis plugins, but I bet it'll work with any version of winamp and other plugins

[DrewKaree]

Brad, what setup are you using while running this?

I'm using 98SE and I keep getting a Movie Player error.  It seems to be written more for newer versions, and I'm wondering if that's how you're running it.

I'm off to that site to have them troubleshoot it, but was just wondering about your setup

[Brad Lee]

My cabinet is XP, but my testing systems have been both win2000.

Things to try
Make sure you've got the latest directX from http://www.microsoft.com/directx
Current codecs for video formats- divx mpg avi etc

Are you talking about the first post, media engine? I still didnt try any video with it. With Autoplay, once I got my test system to current directX it played video no problem

[DrewKaree]

Yeah, I was referring to media engine.  

The error is msdxm.ocx related.

In researching that particular error, it's related to Windows Media Player (just ONE MORE reason for me to HATE m$).  

I don't want to hijack anymore space.  I'll troubleshoot it in their forums.  Appreciate your feedback, though!

[DrewKaree]

I solved my issue with msdxm.ocx and have been playing with this.  

re: the "if you don't mind GPS references", it's skinnable, and I played around with making a blank button for GPS, and VIOLA, no outward appearance of GPS.  Also, if I am reading correctly, you can PICK the GPS app you use, so I'm thinking it's not coded to the prog, rather just run inside the prog, so why not insert a prog you WANT to run there in place of GPS, or just eliminate the reference altogether?

So far, it's a pretty cool player, but after I get it set up to MY wants/needs, I'll have my wife give it a shot.  That's been my test bed to narrow down to three.....and this might bump one of 'em out of the running.  

p.s. The terminator skin is pretty cool too!