w3juke

w3juke reads audio data files from one or more data sources and streams them into a locally configured playback programs. It will randomly select the different music tracks to be played based off your preferences. It has a history mechanism to avoid playing any audio tracks that have been recently played. It has a sophisticated rating system for tracks that allows the end user to assign ratings to the tracks, discs, or artists to influence how often that music will be played. It also has a highly optimized data buffering implementation to deal with slow Web servers, broken connections, and TCP channels with losses.

Requirements:

· Building w3juke requires the GTK+ and GTK-- libraries. Playback programs are also required -- one for each type of data stream that you want to listen to. Typically this will be a compiled, native executable, command line program, such as mpg123, or ogg123. Last but not least, you need to have a source of audio data files - either from a set of webservers or as files available through a locally mounted filesystem.
· The w3juke program is pretty stable. It gets run all day long and normally it dumps core less then once a month. Then again, this has only really been tested against a relatively small set of web servers.

Requirements:

• Building w3juke requires the GTK and GTK-- libraries. Playback programs are also required -- one for each type of data stream that you want to listen to. Typically this will be a compiled, native executable, command line program, such as mpg123, or ogg12
• The w3juke program is pretty stable. It gets run all day long and normally it dumps core less then once a month. Then again, this has only really been tested against a relatively small set of web servers.