help a jukebox newb

[chadd]

first off, thanks for the great forum. you have inspired me to build my own media computer and put a jukebox on it.

what i am looking for is a juke software that will allow me to have a premade playlist playing whenever the song queue is empty, and then if someone picks a song, it plays that song and goes back to the playlist after that song (or whenever the queue is empty again)

i know some juke softwares in the wiki play a random song or a top 10 during downtime, but i didn't see any that listed that it can use a playlist during downtime.

also, i'm wondering what software would be recommended for a fairly large collection? i have over 10,000 mp3's now, and i'm not quite done ripping all my cd's. i'm guessing about 12k after it is all done.

i have them all organized well and tagged properly (thanks for the tip about Tag&Rename in another thread, that thing works amazing) so that shouldn't be an issue. but if i am loading this jukebox up, i don't want it to choke trying to load 12,000 files...

thanks in advance for all the help!

--chadd

[Space Fractal]

Playlists is not a comon in a Jukebox software, simply because they are mosly queue based instead of playlists based.

I known Freebox have a similar causel feature, but I do not know how this work when the queue is empty.

I also known DWJukebox have a radio features that play songs when empty, but again I dosent known how it really worls.

Otherwice this is a good feature to add in MultiJuke, which I might look soon. It might not support PlayLists Files, but instead save its queue and this that as a playlist, and/or play random songs from a contain library (Database) in a lowered Volume. You might need to split a a large collection into fewer collection for better navigation, or use Genre tag as a category or letter.

[Barry Barcrest]

mine will play by arist, genre, or video, karaoke or audio library. when i rands play. it will let you add albums to a carasel and i am adding playliast.

[Kremmit]

...but he's adding "playliast" after he gets done adding beers. 

[Barry Barcrest]

Hmm yes...

Basically freebox will handle a large collection, i have over 6,000 albums running on mine and it works fine with that amount of music. You can browse through the albums sorted by artist, jump to letter to save paging through lots of artists to get to one stating with "S" for example. You can also filter it by genre so you can just browse through artists of a specific genre where you can still use the jump to letter. It has a full search option to search out music in large collections, searching is fairly quick.

The random play features let you play by Artist, Genre or by one of the 3 libraries (Audio, Video and Karaoke). You can select multiple Artists or Genres for the random play to pick from. you can also add albums to a carousel and it will pick from those for random play. All songs played via random play have their own volume indipendant of the master volume so you can set these to be background music. I am looking at getting playlist support in for the random play in the very near future.

Hopefully that post makes more sense.

[chadd]

i saw that Album Player uses a playlist, anyone have any experience with this software?

[Space Fractal]

That software seen to use more a playlists system and is designed as that (unlike, mine and Barcrest which is both Queue based). There is a demo of the software, why not try it?