johntech Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 I'm attempting to locate the best PC Audio Jukebox software with an emphasis on user friendliness. The requirements in a Nutshell are: Rips Audio CD's to Hard Disk at high speed for Random Library (playlist?) Playback. Displays Disc, Track and Title information clearly on screen maybe using CDDB or similar if none is present in file. Displays Album Cover for the Track(s) currently playing. Wide Format Compatibility is nice - MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG and whatever else is on offer. Network functionality including streaming with independant multiple streams being particularly yummy. The user friendliness part mentioned earlier is paramount so if the user interface was clear and easy to navigate for playback and ripping that would be optimal. To expand on that last point can anybody recommend a software/hardware PC solution for sending multiple audio streams out of a PC simultaneously even if it is complicated as audio performance here would be more important. Thanks.
sold Posted January 8, 2006 Posted January 8, 2006 Have a look at this post - http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=314529#r7 The multizone audio may be a little more tricky, check out Xlobby - http://www.xlobby.com/ - it plays all it's audio via Winamp so if you have multiple soundcards you can get different audio playing through each one or I think it is able to be run as a server with streaming audio sent out. Don't think it will rip stuff for you though. I have a feeling that you may have trouble combining everything you want though. If you do find something that does all of it let us know as I for one would find it useful.
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