BallroomDJ - Ballroom Music DJ

Current Version: 1.6

'BallroomDJ' is a ballroom music player. It is designed to let the computer choose the music and to be able to play music the entire evening without intervention. Use for your personal training, dance studio, or ballroom events.

The choice of music is based on the choice and weighting of different dances by the user and the use of various rules to choose which dance to play next.

The rules are: avoid repeating the dance, avoid sequences of dances of similar types, avoid sequences of dances of similar speeds, and avoid sequences of dances from the same family.

On Freecode: http://freecode.com/projects/ballroomdj

Features:

• Free and open source software.
• Uses your music collection from your hard drive.
• Uses the VLC player which supports most audio file formats.
• No limitations on the number of audio files.
• Songs can be removed/moved/added to the queue while playing.
• Flexible playlist generation and controls.
• Choose which dances and how often they play compared to other dances.
• Stop playing at a particular time.
• Stop playing after N songs.
• Allow songs tagged with a particular keyword to play.
• Define a sequence to play dances in a particular order.
• Create a manual playlist to play songs in an exact order.
• Mix all of the above in the playlist queue.
• Requests.
• Seek in song.
• Speed w/pitch control.
• BPM Counter. Automatically calculates MPM.
• Optional music management to organize your audio files.
• Paths to the audio files are fully configurable.

Required Software:

Linux:

• vlc, tcl (8.5+), tk, python 2.x, amixer, flac, python-mutagen, faad, vorbis-tools

Windows:

• VLC Player
• NirCmd
• ActiveState TCL
• ActiveState Python
• FLAC

Copyright 2012-2013 Brad Lanam, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.