Sábado 9 May 2009, 14:54

RIght now, I'm at a friends party, as a DJ, with me providing the technical equipment and him providing an astonishing collection of 84563 MP3s (all ripped from legally bought CDs, of course).

I am using Songbird on my notebook to stream audio to the various devices that then equalize and mix it. Songbird more or less simply shuffles the whole library, I didn't care about an adequate party shuffle for now as I'm quite certain that this very library is not mixed up with strange music we woulsn't want to hear ;).

Whenever a guest wants to have a special song played, I dynamically insert it into Songbird's internal playback list. But although I didn't expect that, this library is not complete enough, so some songs that people want to hear are not available.

Thank God, Last.fm can help there: I simply manually enque the Last.fm stream, stopping local playback and inserting one track from Last.fm Webradio.

I didn't know that the most powerful Open Source media player and the greatest Web 2.0 website could play together to create such a great experience :D

Keep it up!