Resurrecting a Vintage Jukebox

[sprinkmeier]

Some friends have a Vintage Jukebox. This thing is old^Wclassic.
It plays vinyl and uses core memory to store multi-play selections.

It got a bit of a knock and stopped working. Long story short, the gearbox that transitions the cradle from traversing to spinning records was stuck.

Mechanical repair was not feasible.

Add a RasPi, some speakers and an Arduino to interface to the selection switches and the Jukebox was resurrected!

A web-interface allows uploading of music files, as well as playing them. The real fun is walking up to it and pressing the buttons though

All the code and schematics are on github:
https://github.com/sprinkmeier/jukebox

Not the most elegant code I ever wrote, but there was a deadline (Birthday party!) which was met.

[fa001]

Good work! I have started a couple of these projects but have not completed yet.
I have a couple of questions:
1) What make / model of jukebox did you use?
2) What is the naming convention you use for music files so that the file matches with the button presses?

[sprinkmeier]

1) Seeburg Select-O-Matic Phonograph SS160

2) The web-front-end that allows you to upload files lets you select the letter and number for the song.
The back-end stores them in a hierarchy accordingly, e.g.
/var/jukebox/A/1/SomeSong.mp3
will play when you press A-1

[iandixon]

Some friends have a Vintage Jukebox. This thing is old^Wclassic.
It plays vinyl and uses core memory to store multi-play selections.

It got a bit of a knock and stopped working. Long story short, the gearbox that transitions the cradle from traversing to spinning records was stuck.

Mechanical repair was not feasible.

Add a RasPi, some speakers and an Arduino to interface to the selection switches and the Jukebox was resurrected!

A web-interface allows uploading of music files, as well as playing them. The real fun is walking up to it and pressing the buttons though

All the code and schematics are on github:
https://github.com/sprinkmeier/jukebox

Not the most elegant code I ever wrote, but there was a deadline (Birthday party!) which was met.

Sounds great, do you have any images. I would love to do a write up about it on my blog (or would you fancy documenting it and I will post it)

Ian
http://thedigitallifestyle.com

[sprinkmeier]

Sounds great, do you have any images. I would love to do a write up about it on my blog (or would you fancy documenting it and I will post it)

Ian
http://thedigitallifestyle.com

Just a few mobile-phone snaps and a short clip with my laptop acting as stunt-double for the RasPi.
I'll try to get some decent pics this weekend.

[iandixon]

That will be great. If you need anywhere to host videos or pics let me know.