Help: Ubuntu Touch Screen Jukebox ???

[mips]

Hi,

This is what I need to do.

I require a system that will play music for a restaurant. The PC will be a dedicated music player. Must use a simple touch screen interface for selecting playlists and songs. Audio format will be either Ogg or MP3

I need to know what software to use for a player ?
I need to know what touchscreen software to use that works well ?
I need to know what soundcard gives decent quality output ?
I need to know which SMALL touch screen will work well with Ubuntu ?

How could i split the stereo output to 3-4 seperate stereo channels to drive 6-8 channles on a amplifier. Know of any amps like this ???

Any suggestions on minimim spec hardware required to do this would be great.

I'm pretty sure this has been done before...

[halfvolle melk]

Maybe this helps:
http://pymedia.org/
They also have PyCar for small screens.

[mips]

Thanks, bit of overkill but I will look at it.

I'm quite happy to have a normal desktop with somethink like xmms but touchscreen interface is what i want.

[ice60]

there's a 6 page article about building a Kiosk, within Ubuntu (i think), in linux format UK (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/) this month. i don't think it's online though :(

it mentions
http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool/

and for touch sceens
http://www.elotouch.com/
http://www.magictouch.com/

it also mentions VIA EPIA motherboards because you probably won't "require much oomph", and "to cut down on breakable parts, look for an Nvidia graphics card that doesn't have a fan e.g. a FX5200 or an older Matrox card."

"also, certain touchscreens will only work with older versions of X Windows, so it might be worth checking ahead"

it keeps mentioning Ubuntu's Failsafe DE, i have no idea what they're on about lol, but i'm sure it's obvious (that's Failsafe not failsafe)

what would you do without me? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[mips]

Thanks

I notice the Elo touch screens seem to have pretty good linux support.

[Brendt2]

This is a very old post... but if you are looking for a centralized music playing solution for use on Ubuntu or linux in general.

Google MPD

Very useful application!