Looking for Advice on Dome top jukebox

[loz1962]

Hi I'm new to this site, I'm looking for info on How to create a dome top on a jukebox & bubble tubes ? I working towards my 3rd jukebox now. any help gratefully received.
Here's my past efforts  @ http://www.jukeboxbuilder.co.uk/  http://www.jukeboxbuilder.co.uk/. cheers Loz

[drventure]

There's a guy on here, I think he's in Brazil, that did a bang up job on a dome top style juke. I believe he sourced a number of the parts from actual Jukebox parts suppliers though, instead of building from scratch.

Still, for the complex curved pieces that might be something to consider...

[ed12]

here u go
they have it all
danny is a nice guy
http://www.victoryglass.com/
give them a call

ed

[loz1962]

Thanks for the Info. I really like the The Victory Glass site, But I'm from the UK & and have limited funds, so I'm looking for a way to build these items. Cheers Loz

[loz1962]

My Jukebox built from "The Mameroom Ultimate Jukebox" plans. 

See my website   www.jukeboxbuilder.co.uk

[loz1962]

Here's what I've got so far. Any Advice?

[drventure]

Looks good. Some of that prekerfed bendable ply would probably work nicely for the top.

[ami-man]

Hello Loz,

If you are looking to make your own cabinet and require a curved top, I suggest that you locate a supplier of bendable MDF, B & Q at some stage stocked this in small sheets.

Being as you are in the UK have you thought of building the Continental copy jukebox a chap from York is selling the instructions on how to produce the cabinet and fit the parts from a donar jukebox, this is on a CD being sold. A lot of people in the UK and small number worldwide have already made a copy jukebox using basic skills and equipement.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK
alan-hood@datex.co.uk

[loz1962]

Hi Guys

Bendable MDF will need to be found, when I start the weather here needs to improve before I start. The continental looks good but I want a Digital touch screen, and the big curve wing usually shows the tracks available, which there would be too many to show printed on that. When they finish developing the flexible LCD screens that you could curve onto that space then we would be talking. I started a MAME Mini Arcade consul instead as this small enough to work on in the conservatory. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=117983.0 Cheers

[BobA]

I did a curved to juke before I knew about bendable MDF.   It was covered with metal flashing and painted.   It bends well and conforms to the curve of the MDF or Ply that you make the main cab out of.

[loz1962]

Installed new touch screen last weekend, Not to bad for a jigsaw hack. See Before & after Pictures

[loz1962]

Hi Guys
Still no plans available for a dome top jukebox, so it looks like I'm gonna have to learn CAD and develop as I draw.. Thanks for looking.

[loz1962]

1ST attempt at plans, got the size wrong to start with.

[loz1962]

Question:  How would I build a Music Video Jukebox???

[drventure]

@loz1962

a video juke is basically the same as an audio juke, though it might need slightly more computer horsepower to play videos. The main diff is the software you choose. Some is specific to audio, others can do both. Album player for instance can do both, though I haven't used it much for videos. There are plenty others. Check out the wiki for a pretty good list of media players.

[yotsuya]

I just recently solved a year-old dilemma of mine by figuring out how to use SimpleTouch FE and Media Player Classic to do music videos for me. It's great!

[loz1962]

I just recently solved a year-old dilemma of mine by figuring out how to use SimpleTouch FE and Media Player Classic to do music videos for me. It's great!

Thanks YOTSUYA, any more information would be great at this time?

[DaOld Man]

About creating a domed top:
I used Mountains idea for my jukebox, which worked out pretty good.
The link to my build is in my signature. (I used it on my first build, Stevies Jukebox, and my second, Brendas Jukebox. Brendas was about as close to a clone of Mountains design that I could do.)

[loz1962]

Well I have been busy, Got married, daughter got married, Holidays all over the place & and so I'm back, From outer space, I just walked in to find you here, With that sad look upon your face, I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key, If I've have known for just one second, You'd be back to bother me......... God I hate that song!
I have purchased a 2nd hand Jukebox Cabinet from EBAY ( not the original vendor). He had started it by assembling & gluing in some plastic trims & added a LED string. SO far I've stripped it down removed the plastics & glue, I painted the trim & details antique gold. I've manufactured some more plastic trim & installed LED bubble wands behind them, & re-routed the wiring back to a 4 point USB power source. I've cut the MDF for the speaker enclosure & for the touch screen mounting, so it's moving along nicely. Here some pictures:

[yotsuya]

I just recently solved a year-old dilemma of mine by figuring out how to use SimpleTouch FE and Media Player Classic to do music videos for me. It's great!

Thanks YOTSUYA, any more information would be great at this time?

Sorry, just saw this!

I made a playlist in Media Player Classic of all my music videos. I have a shortcut in SimpleTouch that starts MPC with the playlist. It always plays the first video on the playlist (which is the MTV Moon Man Intro), and then picks the next one at random (I have like 500 80s videos on there). The only drawback is that I can't manually choose what video to play because it only does the playlist, but in that way, it's really like MTV. And since I only picked videos I liked anyway, it's not like there are any duds. It goes from The Go-Gos to The Police to The Smiths to Motley Crue to Madonna....

I'm happy with it as is, but if I could figure out a way to choose videos, I would probably switch to that.

[Lave Laar]

If you really want to you can launch individual movies in Media player classic from STFE.
Not very practical if you have many videos, but it should be pretty easy to make a script/small program to create the ini-files.

In the "Game executeable" field (marked red) put in the path to the Media player classic exe-file.

In the "Parameters" field (marked blue) put in the path to the movie file.  In addition the following parameters: /play /fullscreen /close
If there are spaces in the video-path the path needs to be enclosed in quotes.

The additional parameters make sure the video start full screen when launched and that the player is closed when the video is finished.

[loz1962]

This what I shall be doing when I get to the Fun part of my build. I did it on my last box and had sections for Jukeboxes 70's 80's 90's etc Karaoke & Winamp ( see attached photo) Plus games & quizes.

[Lave Laar]

This is a quick powershell script that will add all avi and mkv files in a folder to STFE.
If you want to add other type of files change the filter in the third line accordingly.
You will need to change the paths to match your own setup.

Code: [Select]


cls
#### Root folder to search for video-files and what kind of files to search for ####
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\video" -Recurse -Include @("*.avi","*.mkv")

#### Path to the Media Player Classic executable ####
$Player = "C:\Video\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe"

#### The extra parameters needed to open video fullscreen and close automatically when finished ####
$Parameters = " /play /fullscreen /close"

#### Path to the folder to store the generated ini-files. Make sure the "\" is at the end ####
$IniPath = "C:\Program Files\SimpleTouch FE\Config\Config04\"

foreach ($File in $Files)
{
    #### Get filename without path and extension ####
    $Title = $File.BaseName
   
    #### Captialize first word in title ####
    #$Title = $Title.SubString(0,1).toUpper() + $Title.SubString(1).toLower()

    #### Captialize every word in title ####
    #$Title = (Get-Culture).TextInfo.ToTitleCase($Title)
   
    #### Write info to ini-file ####
    $IniFile = $IniPath + $Title + ".ini"
    $Stream = [System.IO.StreamWriter] $IniFile
    $Stream.WriteLine("[Game]")
    $Stream.WriteLine("DisplayName=" + $Title)
    $Stream.WriteLine("Program=" + $Player)
    $Stream.WriteLine("Parameters=" + '"' + $File.FullName + '"' + $Parameters)
    $Stream.WriteLine("Wait=1")
    $Stream.WriteLine("PreGameProgram=")
    $Stream.WriteLine("HidePreProgram=1")
    $Stream.WriteLine("Launch2=0")
    $Stream.WriteLine("UseKillFunction=0")
    $Stream.WriteLine("UseStartFunction=0")
    $Stream.WriteLine("Image=")
    #$Stream.WriteLine("Image=" + '"' + $File.DirectoryName + "\" + $File.BaseName + ".jpg" + '"')
    #$Stream.WriteLine("Image=" + '"' + $File.FullName + '"')
    $Stream.WriteLine("LaunchImage=")
    $Stream.Close()
}


[loz1962]

Thanks for the script, I hope I can get to try this soon. any recommendations on how to get Videos & whats the best format to use for size speed & quality.

[loz1962]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,141688.0.html

[loz1962]

Thanks to all who have read these posts, I have put more information & pictures here on another Post http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,141688.0.html

[loz1962]

My jukebox in action: