<div dir="ltr">Sorry, I misunderstood the intent: if you want the jukebox and your new thing to co-exist, then great, i'm all for it, provided that we keep the -- or a -- jukebox.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Rubin Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net">rubin@starset.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Replying to multiple things here as it's apparent people don't actually read whole emails on this list before hitting reply-all. Amazing! Initiate bitchy Rubin trying to not be bitchy filter, GO!<br>
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Firstly it's not hard to feed the audio output from the Airport Express into the input on the Jukebox machine and balance the two out. We could also setup a cheap analog mixer, we could setup a mixer which one could access through a web interface or SSH, we could splice the cables together with a fucking knife and mad soldering^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H duct tape skillz. As it turns out computers and technology in most cases can coexist, go science!<div class="Ih2E3d">
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On Oct 13, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Jeff Keyzer wrote:<br>
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What about mpd? I have it running on a wireless router as a portable radio, it seems well suited to making an open source jukebox.<br>
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It's already setup, search the wiki and you'll find some info about how to dump music to it, etc. Airtunes provides an alternate solution to those who don't want to futs around with making their music library available to another machine.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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On Oct 13, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Shannon Lee wrote:<br>
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I don't want to set up my laptop every time I want to listen to music -- Im much more likely to be doing *something else* in the space than computer work.<br>
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Cool, there's totally a jukebox already setup, you still need to get onto a machine and interact with the web interface for said jukebox, be it your own computer or someone else's. Haven't you been to the space in the past week to check it out? It's all the rage!<div class="Ih2E3d">
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Plus, this doesn't give the oportunity for me to put something into the playlist after whatever's already playing, thus seamlessly taking over the music or even playing with someone else.<br>
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This is a completely valid statement! I'm sure most of the members would totally be in the boat on figuring out who to do this with the already setup jukebox system *cough*which already plays music and is implemented and can remain implemented along side my Airtunes suggestion*coughcoughhackcough*.<br>
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This past Saturday night / Sunday morning Ed and I were at the space, I was sleep depraved. pvck asked if we wanted to put some music on because the album he was playing started to loop. I'm like, "sure let's fucking throw on some Kettel". pvck directed us to the jukebox's url. Ed and I spent 5 minutes looking at it and give up, no way in hell we were going to deal with getting our music libraries dumped onto that machine then have it chug for an hour updating its db. The argument of "Im much more likely to be doing *something else* in the space than computer work" can be used here too. I'm sure many members are completely happy dealing with this. I know at some point in time I will be too. That night wasn't it.<br>
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Now this is how Airtunes works if you have your music library handy and are running iTunes (I would really love to have a count on how many of us use Macs for our next mailing list food fight):<br>
1. Open laptop.<br>
2. Start iTunes.<br>
3. Select an output speaker, be it the laptop or Airtunes on the network.<br>
4. Play generic pop song.<br>
5. Take a shot of rum and fucking dance.<br>
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This is how Airtunes works if you don't have your library handy:<br>
1. Stand in the corner and cry.<br>
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As you can see, both solutions work together fine and cater to different users. If I come in one night and nothing is playing, I'm going to start playing through Airtunes. If people are already in the space playing music, when the request for someone else to bump something comes up, I'll ask if I can stream to Airtunes. NOT A PROBLEM, unless I'm really drunk and am actually secretively looking for a fist fight, in which case I'll start playing the Willy Wonka sound track over whatever the jukebox is playing.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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In addition to which, I have more music than can fit on my laptop's harddrive, and I'd rather have it at the space where I can play it than be limited to whatever I happen to have downloaded recently.<br>
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That's beyond great man, because guess what, there's a jukebox solution waiting for you at the hunting den inside 83c, just ready to get its juicy pawns on some fucking fresh beats!<br>
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Why does it seem like every suggestion tossed into the list here is read off by others as a replacement to already implemented solutions and not as an option that can live side by side with what we've got? Overly comical example I illustrated in the channel in order to bring a smile to your face at the end of this long and terrible email...<br>
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- Initial email: Hey kids, we got this totally fucking awesome playground, I get carpet burns on the slide, anyone mind if I add in one of those merry go round things were you can totally crack one of your arms off with?<br>
- Reply 1: Fuck horses, we want ponies.<br>
- Reply 2: I like the god damn slide, don't get rid of the slide.<br>
- Reply 3: Merry go rounds are the shit, fuck your religion.<br>
- Reply 4: Dude, we should install a slide, it would be great if we had a slide, why don't we already have a slide?<br>
- My reply back: I'm sorry, I didn't know I typed out the sentence, "let's replace the slide with the merry go round, the slide can go to hell" in my email with invisible ink, next time I'll be more careful with what I don't say or mean. Oh look a cake!<div>
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