Cactus Jukebox

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Cactus Jukebox is an audio player and music organizing tool. It searches given folders for music files and shows them in a database.

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Cactus Jukebox is an audio player and music organizing tool. It searches given folders for music files and shows them in a database. The main focus is on usability and speed. Cactus Jukebox still runs smoothly with 15GB of music files on an old computer like a P3 @ 500MHz. There's no reason to take a dual core machine just to listen to your music. Another nice feature: You can also syncronize your music collection with a mobile player device(USB).

In near future Cactus Jukebox will become a complete suite for organizing, editing, listening music and rip/burn CDs.

Take a look at the screenshots to get an impression about cactus.

Features: + Fast database + Audio CD ripper + Webradio support + Upload/synchronize to mobile players + Plattform independent(GTK, GTK2, win32) + Browse your music collection by artist, albums and titles + Save and load m3u playlists + ID3 tag support + Easy tagging of mp3-files


What's coming next: + Support flac, wma + Audio CD Player + Burn CD's + Support more plattforms(MacOSX, QT,...) + Many bugfixes ;-) + And more... waiting for your suggestions


Something about the history of Cactus Jukebox:

Cactus started in 2004 as a GUI tool for tagging my mp3 collection. Over the times I collected more and more music on my harddisk and I completely lost control. Unhappily at this time there existed no linux program that organizes, and sorts my music so it becomes easier to play a special song or to create a playlist for a evening with friends. So from time to time I expanded my tagger tool to an audio player with an integrated database.

Nowadays there are some other, similiar tools that nearly do the same things and more. But they are either unusable slow like Amarok or I just don't like their kind of usage like Rhythmbox or JuK.

Another really important feature for me, that as far as I know nearly none of all the linux players around can do, is the sync of your music files with a mobile player. So you always see which of your files are on your mobile player and which not and you can easily add or remove files directly from Cactus Jukebox.

Downloads

Download REMEMBER: Current Cactus Jukebox release switched over to MPlayer as a playback engine. So take care mplayer is installed on your system before running Cactus Jukebox. Old libfmod is still supported but not recommended.


32bit - i386

cactusjukebox-0.4.2stable-gtk2_i386.deb (K)Ubuntu, Debian package cactusjukebox-0.4.2stable-gtk2_i386.tar.gz zipped binary

64bit - amd64

cactusjukebox-0.4.2stable-gtk2_amd64.deb (K)Ubuntu, Debian package cactusjukebox-0.4.2stable-gtk2_amd64.tar.gz zipped binary

OpenSUSE RPM Packages can be found here(thanks Toni!)

http://packman.links2linux.de/package/cactusjukebox


Windows (still experimental)

cactusjukebox-0.4.1stable-win32.zip zipped binary


GTK1.x binaries can still be build from source but there are no more packages yet. All current distributions dropped GTK1.x support. If you still need a GTK1.x version please contact me. If there is enough demand I will create official GTK1.x packages again...

QT4 interface is nearly ready for release... No big showstoppers, just some minor graphic bugs to fix. You may try it out by building from source code.

Development

Subversion

The current development version sourcecode is available in the lazarus subversion repository(SVN).

In short: very first checkout:

svn co https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/applications/cactusjukebox cactusjukebox

after that you can always update your local copy doing "svn update"

Gallery

Cactus jukebox.png

See Also

Old Website