> hi, > > here are the specs for an application a company I consult with wants to > build, anyone interested in joining to build/consult on this please come > forward. They will pay. > > specs: > > a. Music archive (presently containing about 4000 hours of > classical > carnatic music, which will grow to about 10000 hours (about 1TB of disk > space)) - mp3 format > > b. Music can be accessed by artist, composer, raga, tala, album > etc > (the usual metadata) > > c. Access through 20 touchscreen kiosks with headsets (PCs with > touch > screen monitors) connected to the server > > d. Admin facility at the backend to organize, index, sequence etc > > e. Touchscreen interface for the listener to choose tracks/albums > by > various metatags > > a,b and d can be done using django or some such framework. I do not have > much of a clue about c and e. >
Hey Kenneth - I have some experience building apps for touch-screen in a browser - it works quite okay - it would depend a bit on the touch-screen device, but generally on a webpage, you'd get .mousedown or .click events fired when a user touches a point on the screen - so its possibly to do as a web-app in a browser using django -- However, for sanity, you'd probably want to use the <audio /> html tag and not flash to play the audio - if you are willing to not support firefox, which cannot support mp3, this should work for all other browsers without re-transcoding the audio. > or is there some open source app that does most of this and can be > customised? > The closest open source app I had seen to this was Gnump3d, though it seems easier to re-write something using Django than customizing this - this was some time ago though, maybe better things exist now. hth, Sanjay -- > regards > KG > http://lawgon.livejournal.com > Coimbatore LUG rox > http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
