Jukebox software for Large music collection?

[bioart]

Hi All,

I have >19K songs on my MP3 collection.  I normally use different programs to access it depending on where I'm listening:

iTunes -- Local PCs (Mine or my Wife's)
MythMusic -- TV's running MythTV
Netjuke -- Streaming outside the house (or other PCs in the house)

Both iTunes and Netjuke (but specially Netjuke) are very good at dealing with the large collections (response speeds, presentantion, etc).  MythMusic could be better, but it's slowly getting there.

What I want is a program I can launch from MameWah and work nicely with the arcade controls to interface.  The problem is that most of the arcade oriented jukeboxes I've seen are not really set for large databases.  Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Art

[bioart]

Ok, I did not see the Audio/JukeBox/MP3 forum before I posted this... I don't usually look past the first few forums on the list... (call it forum overload )

Doh 

I'll go check in there

Art

[Chris]

There used to be a guy around here pushing a program called IPlay which had a SQL back end.  It's far more media player than jukebox, but with a collection that size that's probably a good thing.

http://www.purpleworld.biz/iplay/

Ordinarily I push my own WinCab jukebox, buit it'll probably fare pretty poorly on this collection, especially over a network.

--Chris

[SalmonKing]

These are my personal stats for SK Jukebox :

TOTAL   
1562 Albums   
23351 Songs

The program handles it fine (and my jukebox PC is a P3 800, with 256mb of RAM).  All I would suggest is to use the Static Database option, so it doesn't have to rescan the directories every time it loads up.

I have also tested it over my (relatively slow for some reason) 100mb network, and the loading times are barely noticable.

[bioart]

Just tried SK.  Not bad,  I like the format, but I find it a little slow to scroll along albums  (not the actual animation, I can speed that up, but there's a delay before it does the animation, that "feels" slow )  I also tried the "Arcade Music Box" and it works pretty well.  For now, I'm leaning towards AMB, but only because of how much music I have ... I think SK is pretty cool too, the main issue is that it heavily features album art, and I don't have much of that... so the 4 default album pictures take over the screen.

AMB is a little different in that it has a list of artists first and then you can drill down.  Maybe if SK had an Artist list first and then allowed drill down?  Then again, SK's format works really well for smaller collections

Arghh... too many good programs, hard to decide on one...

Art

[SalmonKing]

You can always turn the album art off     That might not be what you want, but worth a try.  You can also try the 'First Part Of Directory Name Is Genre' option.  That should give you the list of artists, but I doubt it's what you want either.

Anyway, the program's not for everyone.....so be it!   

[bioart]

Don't get me wrong, I like it But It's hard for an app to accomodate all types of uses, especially with MP3 collections.  I think that if I had all the album art, then SK would look cool.

I'll try the album art off anyways just in case

Art