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When we started thinking about the music we want for the wedding, our first thought was to just use an iPod, speakers, and a big iTunes playlist [...] But then we realized that a wedding has several distinct parts to it, all with different musical requirements. Even if we could make a playlist that can handle all this, we'd still be unable to change gears as the mood changes, something that you generally need a DJ for.
[...] The problem, however, is that most of the DJs we know don't spin the kind of music we listen to and may not be familiar enough with the music in our library to be able to keep a good flow going.
[...] While talking about some of the other things we're planning to keep the party interesting, we hit on the perfect solution for the music: a jukebox! User-generated music selections! We can provide different music libraries for different parts of the evening and let guests pick out what they want to hear. I did a little looking around and found Silverjuke, a software jukebox for OS X (and Windows) that does pretty much everything we want plus a couple things we didn't know we wanted. Silverjuke plays music in true jukebox style: people can queue up songs they want to hear and if there's nothing in the queue it will play randomly selected music until someone picks out more. A nice bonus is that is has a full screen kiosk mode so people can't exit the program or download pr0n or whatever [...]