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Itunes in a Jukebox?
« on: December 09, 2009, 01:33:43 pm »
I'm planning for a home wall mount flatscreen juke box, and will have the PC sitting behind it, behind a wall.  All my sounds are in the Itunes format, will this work for some of the free juke box front ends?

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 07:43:16 pm »
By "iTunes Format" do you mean Apple Lossless?  If so, those are stored as .M4A files.  I do believe there are one or two Jukebox front-ends that support .M4A, but you would have a lot more options if you convert your files to MP3.

 



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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2009, 07:46:42 pm »
good to know!  Anyone have a recomendation on a FREE converter for this?

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2009, 07:53:52 pm »
Its somewhat clunky to get all the codecs you need, but dbPowerAmp was generally considered the best software back when I needed to do this.  Find it here:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2009, 09:14:19 pm »
That doesn't sound very seamless.  New question, what is the best Touchscreen Jukebox application that plays Itunes format songs?  Free or purchasable?

Thanks again!

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2009, 09:57:50 pm »
I'm starting out mine with itunes only.  Nice thing about using itunes is you can use the free remote app from your iphone to pick, change and adjust the volume.  Anyone with an iphone can select their music remotely.

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2009, 01:22:04 am »
You might want to look into something that supports the Firefly media server http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ - which streams in the DAAP protocol and does on-the-fly transcoding.

Potential clients - Banshee, Amarok, Exaile (with a plugin), Songbird (with a plugin), Rhythmbox, and WiFiTunes; probably others as well.

I don't know anything about those apps but I am curious - let me know what you find!
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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2009, 05:34:58 am »
If you can play them in WMP then freebox will play them. The only 2 problems i see with this is 1/ Currently i can't read M4a or M4p tags and 2/ I tunes stores them in some odd directory structure from what i have seen where the filename doesn't seem to make much sense. I am looking at improving the tag reading code, hopefully the next version will be able to read a lot more tags than the current version.

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2009, 06:08:56 am »
Guess XBMC plays it too (non-drm itunes files)

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Re: Itunes in a Jukebox?
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 06:26:43 am »
m4a files was no problems under my own software (which I have not developed on a half year, due music projects at greatflash.co.uk), more problem is these with drm which normally cant been played others than Itunes itself. So if they are drm free, then it should been played on most software that support multi based formats.
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