The Infinite Jukebox: Play your favorite song as long as you want
Are you currently listening to a song that you have set to repeat because it is that great? If you look at the success of Gangnam Style on YouTube, it certainly feels as if lots of people have that video on repeat.
The Infinite Jukebox lets you play your favorite song as long as you want, but not in the way that you would expect. Instead of just repeating the song from beginning to end over and over, it analyzes the song to find connections in the song. The result is a representation of the song as a circle with connectors linking parts of the song that are similar to each other. These connections are then used - randomly - by the algorithm to jump around in the song which in many occasions is a seamless experience that goes by unnoticed.
The end result is a new interpretation of your favorite song that plays on forever.
You can upload your own mp3 to The Infinite Jukebox site or play one of the songs that other users have uploaded to it previously. The loading and pathway calculation takes a couple of seconds but when that is done you are ready to play the song for as long as you want. There is no play button which means that you need to click on the circle to start playing. Songs start at the top of the circle but you can start at any position.
A green bar starts moving clock wise then indicating the current position of the song that is playing. You will notice that it sometimes uses connections to jump to other parts of the song which seems random. That's actually a great feature since it adds versatility to the song.
The author explains the process further:
 As the song is played,  when the next beat  has similar sounding beats there’s a chance that we will branch to a completely different part of the song. Since the branching is to a very similar sounding beat in the song, you (in theory) won’t notice the jump.  This process of branching to similar sounding beats can continue forever, giving you an infinitely long version of the song.
Please note that the online player is currently only working in Google Chrome and Safari (which is based on the same source), and not in other web browsers such as Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?