[Techtalk] Linux jukebox on old laptop

[Miriam English]

Hi Helga,

PMusic is laggy even on fast machines. I dislike it for that reason too.

Try Aqualung. That's my current favorite. It is quick and responsive. 
You should be able to download it using the "Install" program on the 
desktop. Drag and drop files onto the interface to queue them. You don't 
need to explicitly save the list as it will remember it for next time. 
One nice feature of Aqualung is that you can have several lists as tabs, 
thus changing the entire playlist between one of many choices as fits 
the occasion.

Or, you can use the movie player program already installed in Puppy. It 
may be GXine or mplayer -- different versions of Puppy use one or the 
other. It should be able to queue lists of audio files without having to 
install a new program. When the player program is running choose to 
display the playlist, then drag and drop the files you want onto the 
playlist. You may need to save the playlist and load that into the 
player another time, because (unlike Aqualung) the movieplayers will 
forget the playlist when you close them down.

Cheers,

	- Miriam

tauscher at abwesend.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am about to set up a very old laptop as a jukebox for a cultural/political/social space. Its a Gericom Webboy (Boy, what a daffy name), Pentium III, 128MB, very old indeed. Lets leave aside the option of newer hardware, cause this is what we have ... anyway I love the challenge. The best and most painless I came up with so far is installing Puppy Wary including PMusic, but I think there may be solutions with even more reduced functionality and thus a more fluid experience. The main annoyance is the slow display of the track list in PMusic even in "low powered" mode, no matter whether the list is displayed from index or folder.
>
> Has anyone tried something similiar and wants to share her experiences?
>
> Thank you and cheers,
>
> Helga
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