Nice idea. What dumpster? I have a Toshiba satellite 4060 in the living room as a jukebox. It has a functional screen, but the screen is only used to display song info, album art and the like. I have the same configuration on a headless server, that works just as well. mpd is the answer. First, because it does not require a display. Second, because it's very easy to control and communicate with. You could easily get mpd running and configured through a network, then have it start automatically. Once you're at that point, you can control it with a keypad, or IR. Should be easy enough to get LCD output of song info as well. The mpd feature set is nice and full, by the way. It will catalog your music directory and you can script playlists with searches, etc. endless possibilities. Drop me a note if you have any question on configuration. It's all fresh in my mind at the moment. -Ben > I have acquired a laptop (dumpster dive) with a non-functional LCD. > Laptop works fine with an external monitor. I'm considering trying to > use it as a music jukebox in my car. Just one problem, I'm not aware > of any music apps that will run without visual input. Anyone know of > an audio app that is completely keyboard based and could be used > headless? Even if the only function was "next track" in a list of > random tracks? > -Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080621/ca8ee706/attachment.htm