Creative Commons cafe - looking for music player software

[Sean Hammond]

The Forest asked for bigger, laminated copies of the flyer to go on
the cafe walls! I've now converted it to handier PDF format:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntuflyer.pdf

The source files are still available on my wiki page too.

On 4/26/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a general update on this little Ubuntu project at The Forest cafe:
>
> We're now beginning to install ubuntu on The Forest's computers. The
> cafe has two public access machines for free Internet and computer
> access which had been running Windows and were full of malware etc.,
> both now running Ubuntu and working nicely.
>
> They are interested in getting Ubuntu installed on the Mac that they
> use as a jukebox machine to play the music for the cafe. We're looking
> into getting this done, and are probably just going to use a standard
> Ubuntu. We'll probably use Rhythmbox to play the music as it's similar
> to iTunes which is what they use now, we'll use SoundJuicer to let
> artists rip their albums onto the jukebox in ogg vorbis, and we'll
> probably want to add a tag editor too.
>
> We gave up on the whole projection/visualisation thing. We realised we
> probably don't want to run the projector all day, and there is a pub
> nearby that plays audio visualisation on TVs to go with the music, and
> it just seems really cheesy.
>
> I put together this flyer:
>
> HTML: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntuflyer.html
>
> PS for printing:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntuflyer.ps
>
> to go next to the computers. Others might find it useful to go near
> any public facing Ubuntu machines.
>
> I'm going to make sure the The Forest's free shop stays stocked up on
> Ubuntu CDs also, once Dapper is released.
>
> Finally, there is now a Free Software hacklab Infoseed:
>
> http://www.infoseed.org/
>
> (yes the site seems to be down now) based in the basement of The
> Forest, where we have a lot of Ubuntu machines and do ubuntu installs
> and workshops and the like.
>
> On 3/29/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, so there is a cafe here in Edinburgh, The Forest
> > (http://www.theforest.org.uk/). The forest includes a space for
> > independent musicians to record, perform and sell their music, and the
> > cafe plays only non-copyright music from these musicians and
> > downloaded from creative commons sources.
> >
> > The cafe plays music from a computer that is connected to a projector,
> > they would like to be able to display information through the
> > projector about each song as it plays - artist, album, how much you
> > can buy it for at the forest or where you can download it from, plus a
> > tagline saying 'the forest only uses creative commons music' or
> > something. I guess all that could be stored in the meta-data of the
> > music files.
> >
> > So does anyone know of a FLOSS music player that can run fullscreen,
> > perhaps but not necessarily displaying some visualisation, and
> > displaying this information about each track as it plays, either when
> > the song starts or throughout the track?
> >
> > The Forest also has a mac, so any free (of cost) mac software would
> > also be worth knowing about, but proper FLOSS is preferable.
> >
> > Recommendations?
> >
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