Polar Jukebox System 0.6.0.57 review

The Polar Jukebox System (PJS) is a set of curses and console applications that allow you to manage huge amounts of MP3 files

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Thomas Gresch

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The Polar Jukebox System (PJS) is a set of curses and console applications that allow you to manage huge amounts of MP3 files. It stores all information in a PostgreSQL database for fast and reliable acces.

The reason I started this project is that I always wanted a easy-to-use music collection, and I reached that goal with the PJS. I started programming in late 1998 and kept programming from time to time. Now I think the PJS is ready for the public, even not everything that is possible has been done - but it works!

The PJS runs under the GPL (GNU Public License) an can be installed on computers running Debian GNU/Linux, other distributions are not supported till now, and I still need help for packing the PJS to others dists.

Here are some key features of "PolarJukeboxSystem":
Riping/encoding of audio CDs (with CDDB support) into the PJS with jrec
Easy management of a big CD Collections with jplay
Playlistgeneration and -management
Automatic playlists (alltime charts, newcomers, rarely played...)
Special play modes (random, linear...)
Export of CDs to CD-R
Database (postgresql) storage of the track and CD information

Requirements:
cdparanoia (doesen't work straight away, mostly, permissions of /dev/hdx!)
lame (the encoder, dowload it, it's not part of Debian)
cdtools (commandline cdtools)
postgresql (the database)
perl (scripting language)
aumix (audio mixer)
amp (mp3 decoder)