MP3 Jukebox Project

Number of Visitors since Feb. 26 1999:

A Stand alone MP3 player running Windows and Winamp, based on the InMotion Car MP3 Player.

News (Aug. 11, 2001)

New LCDisplayer v1.01 visual Winamp plug-in is available!

Whats New: Fixed up a bug where some information was sometimes incorrectly displayed (sample rate of 0, mono instead of stereo). This is has been tested with Winamp 2.76.

News (Nov. 8, 2000)

New LCDisplayer v1.0 visual Winamp plug-in is available!

Whats New: Oscilliscope vis option, and mini vis options for both the spectrum analyzer and oscilliscope. Added items Genre (from ID3v1 tag) and total number of tracks in the playlist. Also added the option to make the simulation window bigger (for all you people running high res and you're having trouble reading the 8 pixel high font). I incremented the version to 1.00 because there have been next to no bugs reported and LCDisplayer is finally feature complete (based on the features I had in mind). Of course ID3v2 support would be nice and I should take the time to speed up the shutdown time for the plug-in (takes a noticable second or 2 for the plug-in to actually exit). I really want to get back to working on the Jukebox plug-in, so that's another reason to finally give LCDisplayer a non-beta version.

Archived News page.

Features:

Capable of playing any file format that is compatible with Winamp
Plays songs from both the hard drive and CD-ROM drive (or any device Windows can access as a standard logical drive)
Copy files from CD to the hard drive and delete unwanted songs from the hard drive
Infrared receiver for remote control operation
Keyboard and Mouse control
LCD display provides visual information

Advances Features that may get added eventually

CDDB Support via the floppy drive - every time an audio CD is played the disc ID is saved on the hard drive. The disc IDs get dumped to a floppy disk. A small utility is executed on a computer with Internet access and fetches the CDDB information and saves it on the disk. The Player reads the CDDB information off the disk and saves it on the hard drive.
Network support - access to the hard drive, Shoutcast support, and CDDB support.

Hardware:

Socket 7 Motherboard with an on board Sound Card and ECP parallel port
Pentium 166MHz CPU
24MB RAM
1.2GB Hard Drive
Floppy Drive
CD ROM Drive
Seiko M4024 - 40x4 alpha/numeric LCD Display
IR receiver (Universal Infrared Receiver by Ties Bos)

Software:

Windows 98
Winamp
LCD Winamp plug-in
The software to do all the above mentioned features is currently in development.

Project Links

Details
LCD Connection Details
Pictures of my player
LCDisplayer Visual Winamp Plug-in (LCDisplayer v0.60, Sep. 10, 2000)
Other Utilities
FAQ (FAQ about the plug-ins)

e-mail me if you have any questions. Please do NOT e-mail about how to hook up the LCD or where to buy one. Read the FAQ first!