How to turn an old laptop into a jukebox

hi all!
because this is my first post, i just want to say that i really like the arch community. didn't need to post anything until now, but since i switched to arch (2-3 years ago), this forum & wiki always helped me. so thanks!
ok - i want to turn an olld laptop into a jukebox for partys. it is an acer aspire 1692 (Pentium-M 740 1.73GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 64MB). so what i want is nothing than a fast system, playing the music. the music player should have the following (very basic) features: shuffle, fading, queuing, music library and fastness. my current music library contains around 19000 songs (~100gb). i think i would like to use openbox. but i still can't find a music player. i really like mpd but there is no such feature like queuing (for example, having a playlist, and then adding a song as the next song to be played in the cue, and then continue with the playlist).
any suggestions? comments?
thanks!
hooch

I would like to see you fit 100GB worth of music into an 80GB HDD ;P
Are you saying none of those https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ions#Audio fits your needs?
I would pause mplayer playing the playlist and open another one to play just this track, then return to the first one and continue with the playlist :-) I don't think mplayer supports fast handling of music libraries of ~100GB-size though. How about http://www.clementine-player.org/ ?
Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 15:35:15)

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