Music player with screen saver and track list crawler - pls?
Posted: Wed 18 Apr 2018, 21:50
My request: is there a screen-saver option that exists for any media player that will present a simple crawler or printout of the details of the music currently playing in the background? Could a stand-alone screen saver application be modified to accomplish the task?
I have been joint carer for a few years now for a live-in mother-in-law progressing with Alzheimer's-like dementia. She's Depression-era Australian farming stock, but cannot operate modern CD/radio players and baulks even at using the TV remote. Computers? *FUHGEDDABOUDIT* So I've cooked her up a bit of a music server from an old laptop to play her old CD's (I've stored as digital files), and working through Internet radio stations for her. Rationale being that a musical environment that reflects a dementing person's early life and tastes, has been shown to significantly slow the progression of the disease.
Have been experimenting with VLC/gxine/deadbeef/Pradio/etc and can "fire and forget" playback for her. However she won't read track info from the various interfaces - the detail is just too much, and she refuses outright to be a late adopter of digital tech. I think that a basic black screen with large-lettered track details would be ideal but cannot find such a feature on existing players. Any advice on the matter gratefully received.
I have been joint carer for a few years now for a live-in mother-in-law progressing with Alzheimer's-like dementia. She's Depression-era Australian farming stock, but cannot operate modern CD/radio players and baulks even at using the TV remote. Computers? *FUHGEDDABOUDIT* So I've cooked her up a bit of a music server from an old laptop to play her old CD's (I've stored as digital files), and working through Internet radio stations for her. Rationale being that a musical environment that reflects a dementing person's early life and tastes, has been shown to significantly slow the progression of the disease.
Have been experimenting with VLC/gxine/deadbeef/Pradio/etc and can "fire and forget" playback for her. However she won't read track info from the various interfaces - the detail is just too much, and she refuses outright to be a late adopter of digital tech. I think that a basic black screen with large-lettered track details would be ideal but cannot find such a feature on existing players. Any advice on the matter gratefully received.
