A 1953 Seeburg 200-LU1 Library Unit

Restored, Upgraded and Internetrified for Your Listening Pleasure

One hundred sheets of fifty-year-old plastic spun past a tiny rock by an elaborate mechanism of steel and electricity, translated into a chain of ones and zeros and spattered across the globe through sheer cooperation.

Loading current jukebox status ...

play

pause

stop

mute

unmute

max volume

Clicking the play button will start the jukebox if it's off
Use the controls at lower left to add more time or reject the record
Please be patient ... loading the first record takes a few seconds!

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

If you don't want to use the player above, you can use the controls at lower left to start the jukebox and then click on one of these links to launch an audio player from your browser:

HTTP Stream | M3U File | RealAudio RAM File

If none of those work, follow these directions to connect manually:

In iTunes, click on the Advanced menu, then "Open Stream ..." and put in
http://www.seeburgremote.net/radio/
In VLC Media Player, click on the Media menu, then "Open Network Stream ..." and put in
http://www.seeburgremote.net/radio/

Notes:

Update 30 August 2017: After almost eleven months of attempting to coerce Windows 10 Home Edition, running on a Quantum Access Mini PC Stick, into behaving like a stable 24/7 web server, I've given up and rewritten the entire control program in a different language (Ruby) so it will run on a Raspberry Pi 3. This configuration is little fragile at the moment, and there will be occasional interruptions while it undergoes various refinements, but so far it appears to be substantially more stable than the previous setup, and it definitely eats less electricity than the original Visual Basic incarnation, which ran on a 2005 Dell XP Server desktop.

I'm making lots of improvements to this page, and to the software which controls the jukebox through the Internet. If you come here and things aren't working right, please try again in a short while; they are likely to be less (not more) broken when you return. Also, it's worth occasionally refreshing the page to load whatever revisions have been posted since you first got here.
In order to hear the jukebox, you need to (a) establish an audio connection, either in the browser (start the jPlayer above, which uses HTML 5 or the Adobe Flash plugin depending on what your browser supports) or with something that can connect to an internet radio type of stream; and then (b) ensure that the physical machine itself is actually turned on and playing a record. The message at the top of this page should tell you whether it's on. If it's in standby mode and there's a white circle to the left with a red zero in it, click the circle to turn the machine on for ten minutes. If the number is greater than zero, the machine should be playing, so check your audio connection again. If the circle controller is missing altogether, then it means the machine is in a mode where remote power control is not available, e.g. because I've unplugged it for the night.
Clicking the circle controller multiple times will add play time up to a maximum of two hours.
If nobody (including you) has an audio connection to the jukebox, it will shut itself off after a minute or so.
The IP adddress of the actual jukebox stream is likely to change occasionally. Currently (as of Tuesday October 01, 2024 07:13 PM UTC) it's 24.205.183.3:8080/stream.mp3. The redirect from http://www.seeburgremote.net/radio/ ought to remain up-to-date, however, so it's better to bookmark that than the current IP.
The machine isn't playing 24/7, and is genally locked "off" at night (Pacific time zone). If you connect and hear silence, or if you can't connect at all, that's probably why. Ideally, the indicator at the top of the page will be accurate with regards to whether the jukebox is on or off, but occasionally the software goofs and displays the wrong status.
I currently have limited upstream bandwidth, so if the audio goes choppy, it could be because too many people are connected. Please let me know when you encounter this, at the email address below.
Which records are in the machine at any given moment are purely a function of my caprice and whimsy, and change very frequently. Some records sound trashy and some sound very clear and clean. Such is the way of old used 45s.

You may also be interested in my Notes on the History, Design, and Zen of the 200 LU-1 or this List of Frequently Asked Questions That I Made Up.

On Twitter, I'm @SeeburgRemote. I tend to announce substantial changes to the selection of records, or addition of features, thereon. At some point in the future, I'll be sending automatic notifications out there each time the machine turns on. Other Twitter-related plans include the ability to reject the current playing selection and/or go to a particular slot number.