Gronk is an online MP3 jukebox that can be accessed through a web browser.
Gronk is a unique and reliable software that serves as a web-based MP3 jukebox. The Gronk project functions by generating web pages that are heavily linked to all your ripped CDs, using information extracted from CDDB data. These web pages are designed to make song or album selection easy for the user. In the absence of explicit song selection, Gronk chooses tracks randomly from your entire collection for playback. Playback is achieved via either XMMS or mpg123.
Some key features of Gronk include a web-based user interface, a hierarchical display of bands, albums, and tracks, easy selection of a track or an album for playback, easy selection of "never play this song again," utilization of any command-line program for playback, and navigation hyperlinks on everything. Gronk also automatically cross-references bands with compilation albums on which they appear and retrieves album and song names from FreeDB/CDDB instead of from the MP3 files themselves, bypassing the 30-character limit. Importantly, Gronk doesn't use SQL.
Requirements for Gronk include Perl 5, a lot of MP3 files, and their corresponding CDDB files, a web browser that supports HTML circa 1995, a web server that supports Apache-style ".htaccess" files and CGI scripts, and XMMS, mpg123, or mpg321 for playback. Gronk users may experience skipping playback with mpg123, which is not ideal. Therefore, the recommend option is XMMS, which provides a scrollbar and playback timer, both of which are not included in the web page. Users opting for XMMS will also require Doug MacEachern's Perl XMMS interface and the xmms and xmms-devel packages.
Gronk's latest release comes with some new features, including writing ID3 tags with "id3tag," meaning that both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags will be used now. Make-cddb.pl understands ID3v2, which means it will do a better job of importing MP3s ripped with iTunes. Mp3ify.sh converts .m4a to .mp3 with "faad".
Overall, Gronk is an excellent software for creating web-based MP3 jukeboxes, and it is ideal for those in need of a reliable system for playing their favorite music online.
Some key features of Gronk include a web-based user interface, a hierarchical display of bands, albums, and tracks, easy selection of a track or an album for playback, easy selection of "never play this song again," utilization of any command-line program for playback, and navigation hyperlinks on everything. Gronk also automatically cross-references bands with compilation albums on which they appear and retrieves album and song names from FreeDB/CDDB instead of from the MP3 files themselves, bypassing the 30-character limit. Importantly, Gronk doesn't use SQL.
Requirements for Gronk include Perl 5, a lot of MP3 files, and their corresponding CDDB files, a web browser that supports HTML circa 1995, a web server that supports Apache-style ".htaccess" files and CGI scripts, and XMMS, mpg123, or mpg321 for playback. Gronk users may experience skipping playback with mpg123, which is not ideal. Therefore, the recommend option is XMMS, which provides a scrollbar and playback timer, both of which are not included in the web page. Users opting for XMMS will also require Doug MacEachern's Perl XMMS interface and the xmms and xmms-devel packages.
Gronk's latest release comes with some new features, including writing ID3 tags with "id3tag," meaning that both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags will be used now. Make-cddb.pl understands ID3v2, which means it will do a better job of importing MP3s ripped with iTunes. Mp3ify.sh converts .m4a to .mp3 with "faad".
Overall, Gronk is an excellent software for creating web-based MP3 jukeboxes, and it is ideal for those in need of a reliable system for playing their favorite music online.
What's New
Version 1.9: N/A