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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: mccoy178 on November 26, 2005, 01:20:18 am
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I am planning on building a wall mount touch screen juke that will have two 19" flat panel lcd's. On the bottom will be the touch screen jukebox software. On the top though, I want to have something like the skins from winamp. That is so amazing! Does anyone know of a software program that is similar to the visualization stuff of winamp that I could play all the time whether or not the juke is playing music? I really, really like the winamp stuff. Pretty cool.
The wife doesn't really know the true cost of this little idea ;D. I did pick up a 19" flat panel at comp usa tonight for 200. This juke will have to be around for about a hundred years to pay for itself!
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I want to have something like the skins from winamp. That is so amazing!
Any ones in particular that you like? I've downloaded a few but I'm curious what you're using.
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The wife doesn't really know the true cost of this little idea ;D. I did pick up a 19" flat panel at comp usa tonight for 200. This juke will have to be around for about a hundred years to pay for itself!
Actually, it is amazing how much the cost of owning a stereo (to use an outdated term) has come down. To think that you can build a jukebox and furnish it with music by using an older PC and ripping your existing music collection (CD's or LP's or cassettes or 45's) for basically free is a modern day miracle.
I'm turning 50, so my first stereo consisted of components that averaged $100 to $150 each; turntable, amp, tuner, cassette deck, speakers --- in 1980 dollars. That was a typical starter system of mass marketed components. Records at the time were about $9.99 each...same as I-Tunes today. Now, I balk at spending more than $100 for an mp3 player that houses and plays my entire collection!
If I had the woodworking skills, I would definitely house it all in a furniture grade jukebox. As it is, I plan to eventually settle on something more portable, probably about briefcase sized and self contained reminiscent of portable record players and stereos, but with a touchscreen jukebox interface and great speakers. Eventually.
Brian
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I agree.
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You're right. That's a lot of $$$ for the video interface.
And I don't think you're going to qualify for an EnergySTAR logo for this beast. :)
I wonder if the Geiss screensaver
http://www.geisswerks.com/
and this software
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
might somehow be used to do what you're trying to do.
Personally, I still prefer a color organ to the WinAMP visualization stuff. I still wish I could find a software equivalent, where the color as well as the patterns react to music (low-midrange-high).
Brian
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Personally, I still prefer a color organ to the WinAMP visualization stuff. I still wish I could find a software equivalent, where the color as well as the patterns react to music (low-midrange-high).
Yes! Me too! A lot of the WinAMP visualizations seem very similar to me and they all make me feel like I'm being sucked into a colorful tunnel in the center of my monitor.
I would love to find something that re-creates the old 70s color-organ-boxes I remember from my youth (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41188.msg375046#msg375046).
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I am working on a circuit that will do color organ effect,
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That is really cool! So are you running tri led's? Also, how many can that little idea of yours support?
I am using multiple vizualizations of winamp right now, and I think it would be something to have the lights around as an option.
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You can use as many as these as you want or make them half the size you want. I am using seperate red, green and blue leds and a few of them and the way they are positioned is how i get the full color and brightness across the top lens. It took me a couple of months to develope what i have here and the reason for using seperate colors is that it allows mixing the colors better. RGB leds show 3 seperate circles of color which is bad you want those circles to be on top of one another for color mixing.
Kevin