As more of a gear-head than programmer, I have been out looking for front end software for a bar-top jukebox I am working on. Just a simple gui in the style of an old time jukebox. Much research has revealed that 99% of the stuff out there is M$ based. Having sworn off window$ a while back, went looking for linux based pkgs without much result. I mean there are LOTS of music players/managers but nothing with just a simple interface that still has some style.
Ok I says (says I) why not use php with a mysql backend catalogue. I can set up the output with html and css to look however I want right…?
Only problem is while I have found a couple of GNU projects that I may be able to mod, they are all relatively old (3 to 5 yrs) and unsupported by their authors or users. With the exception of a few M$ based commercial products the same situation exists across the street. Any insights as to why this may be?
Not sexy enough? Its all been done? If I cant be bigger and more complicated its not worth it?
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Not an earth shaking issue, just curious as to some outside opinions from the people who actually spend time writing code.
TIA