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Mac-compatible Dance Studio Music Playback
At the request of a daughter who operates a dance studio
(www.godancestudio.com) I am researching Mac-compatible programs to playback audio files. Requirements: - Music Files and playlists need to be able to be stored on a server, not on individual computers, so that all folders and playlists are identical when accessed from any computer on the network. - The ability to queue songs up individually from folders/playlists. (For example one instructor queues up song Y to be played, and then another queues up song X to play when the first song is finished and so on, this all form one playback station.) -Adding songs to the queue cannot interrupt the current song that is playing. - Ability to adjust the tempo of a track that is playing. - Straight -orward operation that can be learned fairly easily by the dance teachers. I.e., not Logic Pro, etc. g - Ease of browsing a large database of songs., - Ability to play songs in as many formats as possible, including iTunes if possible. Note to Windows folks: she has been running a Windows network for several years. She will replace it shortly. She wants to investigate what is available on the Mac side before she makes her move. She is in Austin TX, and has access to plenty of Windows support and advice. Hence, there is no point in suggesting she just do this in Windows. The whole point of this query is to look at the other side of the platform situation. Thanks to all who might have clues to share. -- ha Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam |
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On Apr 25, 7:25Â*pm, (hank alrich) wrote:
At the request of a daughter who operates a dance studio (www.godancestudio.com) I am researching Mac-compatible programs to playback audio files. Requirements: - Music Files and playlists need to be able to be stored on a server, not on individual computers, so that all folders and playlists are identical when accessed from any computer on the network. - The ability to queue songs up individually from folders/playlists. (For example one instructor queues up song Y to be played, and then another queues up song X to play when the first song is finished and so on, this all form one playback station.) -Adding songs to the queue cannot interrupt the current song that is playing. - Ability to adjust the tempo of a track that is playing. - Straight -orward operation that can be learned fairly easily by the dance teachers. I.e., not Logic Pro, etc. g - Ease of browsing a large database of songs., - Ability to play songs in as many formats as possible, including iTunes if possible. Note to Windows folks: she has been running a Windows network for several years. She will replace it shortly. She wants to investigate what is available on the Mac side before she makes her move. She is in Austin TX, and has access to plenty of Windows support and advice. Hence, there is no point in suggesting she just do this in Windows. The whole point of this query is to look at the other side of the platform situation. Thanks to all who might have clues to share. -- ha Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam When I did audio for COMDEX a couple years ago, the coming wave for home multimedia distribution seemed to be centered on large gigabit ethernet network drives, such as this $320 Terrabyte LaCie drive http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10882 . It supports multiple operating systems for file sharing and administration, allows http access for file browsing and supports the "universal plug and play A/V" protocol ( UPnP„¢ A/V). At COMDEX manufacturers had a number of video and audio playback units hooked up to the networked drive playing back assorted streaming programming. With the LaCie for example, you can stream video or music from the drive over ethernet to any computer via a web browser, or to a television or music playback system that supports the "UPnP„¢ A/V" streaming A/V protocol. There are more and more of these products coming out, one such UPnP audio device is the D-Link DSM-120, http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DSM-120. It not only does UPnP over ethernet, it streams over wireless networks, can find music on any of your computers with it's remote and led screen, and supports an internal drive and USB/flash cards, somewhere around $200. Will Miho NY TV/Audio Post/Music/Live Sound Guy "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits Iraq has been called "The Cradle Of Civilization" as it was home to the World's first known civilization; Iraq is Aramaic for "the land among the banks of the rivers"; the Greeks called her Mesopotamia ("Between the rivers"), |
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Mac-compatible Dance Studio Music Playback
It's a good question. Think in terms of radio and broadcast. Avid is
a company to explore. You might want to look at something along the lines of a TV station file server platform, and then see if you can disregard the video aspects of it and just send audio feeds. Then in the future, if you wanted to incorporate giant flatscreen TV's in each of the studios, you can make it a video server and have each song be tied to a video. The video could be the artist's videos, or you could get artistic and make your own videos or abstract light designs. I would do something like keyword search on radio broadcast file server and go from there. |
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It's a good question. Think in terms of radio and broadcast. Avid is a company to explore. You might want to look at something along the lines of a TV station file server platform, and then see if you can disregard the video aspects of it and just send audio feeds. Then in the future, if you wanted to incorporate giant flatscreen TV's in each of the studios, you can make it a video server and have each song be tied to a video. The video could be the artist's videos, or you could get artistic and make your own videos or abstract light designs. I would do something like keyword search on radio broadcast file server and go from there. Thanks for you input. So far the most interesting app I've found is MegaSeq: http://www.megaseg.com/about.html Avid systems are far too cumbersome and costly for this. Ease of use for non-audio saavy folks is paramount. And for this job I'm not sure they'd offer anything that MegaSeq doesn't offer. -- ha Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam |
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Mac-compatible Dance Studio Music Playback
WillStG wrote:
(hank alrich) wrote: At the request of a daughter who operates a dance studio (www.godancestudio.com) I am researching Mac-compatible programs to playback audio files. Requirements: - Music Files and playlists need to be able to be stored on a server, not on individual computers, so that all folders and playlists are identical when accessed from any computer on the network. - The ability to queue songs up individually from folders/playlists. (For example one instructor queues up song Y to be played, and then another queues up song X to play when the first song is finished and so on, this all form one playback station.) -Adding songs to the queue cannot interrupt the current song that is playing. - Ability to adjust the tempo of a track that is playing. - Straight -orward operation that can be learned fairly easily by the dance teachers. I.e., not Logic Pro, etc. g - Ease of browsing a large database of songs., - Ability to play songs in as many formats as possible, including iTunes if possible. Note to Windows folks: she has been running a Windows network for several years. She will replace it shortly. She wants to investigate what is available on the Mac side before she makes her move. She is in Austin TX, and has access to plenty of Windows support and advice. Hence, there is no point in suggesting she just do this in Windows. The whole point of this query is to look at the other side of the platform situation. Thanks to all who might have clues to share. When I did audio for COMDEX a couple years ago, the coming wave for home multimedia distribution seemed to be centered on large gigabit ethernet network drives, such as this $320 Terrabyte LaCie drive http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10882 . It supports multiple operating systems for file sharing and administration, allows http access for file browsing and supports the "universal plug and play A/V" protocol ( UPnP„¢ A/V). At COMDEX manufacturers had a number of video and audio playback units hooked up to the networked drive playing back assorted streaming programming. With the LaCie for example, you can stream video or music from the drive over ethernet to any computer via a web browser, or to a television or music playback system that supports the "UPnP„¢ A/V" streaming A/V protocol. There are more and more of these products coming out, one such UPnP audio device is the D-Link DSM-120, http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DSM-120. It not only does UPnP over ethernet, it streams over wireless networks, can find music on any of your computers with it's remote and led screen, and supports an internal drive and USB/flash cards, somewhere around $200. Thanks, Will. Lots of interesting info you've provided there. The dance studio already has a large music library, growing all the time, on a central Windows server that feeds the separate rooms. They've been using WinAmp to date. Now that they are migrating nearly all their business applications to web apps they're looking to bring ease of use and potentially some audio and video production into the studio. My daughter likes the way that kind of stuff works on the Mac side. On top of that the present network grew a piece at a time and they need to replace enough of it that the idea of a complete makeover is appealing. So far the most interesting app I've found is MegaSeq. http://www.megaseg.com/about.html I'm messing with the demo right now, which is fully functional but interrupts playback every fifteen minutes. The manual seems quite good, and is clearly aimed to support folks who've not set up their Macs for pro audio before. Cost is reasonable with a significant discount for additional licenses. -- ha Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam |
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On Apr 26, 4:27 pm, (hank alrich) wrote:
SNIP So far the most interesting app I've found is MegaSeq. http://www.megaseg.com/about.html I'm messing with the demo right now, which is fully functional but interrupts playback every fifteen minutes. The manual seems quite good, and is clearly aimed to support folks who've not set up their Macs for pro audio before. Cost is reasonable with a significant discount for additional licenses. -- ha Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam Well - you could always use Quicktime Streaming Server, part of the Apple Mac OSX Server Software. Full features for Internet and Intra-net web hosting. Pricey, but does a bit more as well. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/ Will Miho NY TV/Audio Post/Music/Live Sound Guy "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits Iraq has been called "The Cradle Of Civilization" as it was home to the World's first known civilization; Iraq is Aramaic for "the land among the banks of the rivers"; the Greeks called her Mesopotamia ("Between the rivers"), |
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