uroJUKEstyx alpha 2.03 by superbigjay (ready to download) : LRC!

[superbigjay]

do we have to re set all our settings ie song titles etc

or does this overide previous version , do we delete previous version and reload our library?

2 ways of keeping your previous settings
1. copy your old uroJUKEstyx.ini from 1.03 to 1.04 (it is in the uroFILES folder)
2. copy the new uroJUKEstyx.exe from 1.04 to your old installation

[superbigjay]

not showing any album art at all

not playing songs , seems like the same as before mate

windows seven link 1.04

I have to find a vmware virtual machine with win7 without Qt to be able to check packages 

Try this build :
uroJUKEstyx (alpha 1.04 - 20121227 - 23h00) (WIN7 - MINGW4.7.4) and let me know if that one works...

To install,
1. extract the archive wherever you want
2. copy your old uroFILES/uroJUKEstyx.ini file from 1.03 in tht new 1.04
3. execute the uroJUKEstyx.exe

[superbigjay]

I have to find a vmware virtual machine with win7 without Qt to be able to check packages 

Try this build :
uroJUKEstyx (alpha 1.04 - 20121227 - 23h00) (WIN7 - MINGW4.7.4) and let me know if that one works...

To install,
1. extract the archive wherever you want
2. copy your old uroFILES/uroJUKEstyx.ini file from 1.03 in tht new 1.04
3. execute the uroJUKEstyx.exe

I've installed a virtual win7 machine to check if the build is ok or not.
Indeed the link sent by PM for win7-mingw4.8.1 doesn't work.
But the 4.7.4 in the post above  seems fine.

So for win7 users, use the link provided above in the thread.
for winxp users, use the one sent by PM, that one works on my cab, so it should be fine.

I'll investigate why the 4.8.1 is not working...

Have fun kids!
Jay 

[egosbar]

yep works now, copied the ini file to the old version all songs added etc

the click on que title straight to que list is great , still like to see a move to top button ( meaning move highlited  song to top) , making sure you can move more then one up and they cue at the top of list , very handy with a long playlist you may load and want to hear certain songs

[superbigjay]

yep works now, copied the ini file to the old version all songs added etc

the click on que title straight to que list is great , still like to see a move to top button ( meaning move highlited  song to top) , making sure you can move more then one up and they cue at the top of list , very handy with a long playlist you may load and want to hear certain songs

Thanks for the feedback, at least now, with my virtual machine, I'll be able to check that the release works  .
I'll add the move to top/bottom to the list. I initialy misunderstood that request and instead implemented GOTO_TOP instead... So added to wish list for 1.05. I'll see what I can do for multi selection.

Cheer!

[egosbar]

yeah i guessed the misinterpretation of my request , cant see any need for a move to bottom , must move selected song to top and the rest step down one in the cue

[superbigjay]

cant see any need for a move to bottom , must move selected song to top and the rest step down one in the cue

Just for the sake of symmetry, it's a good reason to have both "move to top" + "move to bottom" options 

making sure you can move more then one up and they cue at the top of list , very handy with a long playlist you may load and want to hear certain songs

Here. are you meaning moving a single song more than one position up (ex: moving song at position #10 to position #1).
Or you mean being able to select multiples songs and move all of them a the top positions?

The disadvantage i see when using multiple selections, is that is you select the wrong song, you have to deselect it and select the correct one, which requires 2 clicks.

If multiple selection is wanted by users, I might implement it and maybe add a setting to support both single and muliple selection modes.

Let me know what you're looking for and I'll see what I can do.

Feedback from others on that issue?

Jay

[RetroBorg]

Try this build :

Indeed the link sent by PM for win7-mingw4.8.1 doesn't work.
But the 4.7.4 in the post above  seems fine.

Back from camping and 4.7.4 works great for me on Windows 8.

Thanks for implimenting all my suggestions, I'm loving this jukebox program already! 

[superbigjay]

Back from camping and 4.7.4 works great for me on Windows 8.
Thanks for implimenting all my suggestions, I'm loving this jukebox program already! 

No prob. If you encounter any issue, let me know.

PS:
while you were tanning while camping, here we got like something like 60cm (2ft) of snow here... I had to use the shovel yesterday to get to my bbq and grill my "filet mignons" ;-)

[RetroBorg]

Back from camping and 4.7.4 works great for me on Windows 8.
Thanks for implimenting all my suggestions, I'm loving this jukebox program already! 

No prob. If you encounter any issue, let me know.

PS:
while you were tanning while camping, here we got like something like 60cm (2ft) of snow here... I had to use the shovel yesterday to get to my bbq and grill my "filet mignons" ;-)

Sounds like fun with snow, we never get snow here. 

Just found a bug similar to the previous one with scrolling the albums, this one is when you select a album song list and hold down the up or down arrow, instead of seeing highlighted bit move through the song lists it stops after highlighting just the next two songs then when you release the up or down button the highlighted song appears way down the list depending on how long you held it down of course.

Hope that makes sense.

Also, if it's easy to impliment perhaps make it so all song lists loop so when you are at the bottom of the list and press down again it should loop back to the top of the list and vice versa etc.

Same with the jump list, queue list etc.

[RetroBorg]

In 1.04 the display song flags isn't showing up, it did in alpha 1.03.

Also noticed that the music volume seems to magically increase sometimes when exiting the options menu. 

[RetroBorg]

Being playing around with the profiles option.

I saved some albums to a profile which I named "Phil" and set it as active but nothing seems to happen, can you give us some instrustions on how the profiles work?

It the same with playlists too.

Also when adding albums to a profile we really need to have the artist shown before the album as there is heaps of greatest hits and very best of albums in the list.

[superbigjay]

Being playing around with the profiles option.

I saved some albums to a profile which I named "Phil" and set it as active but nothing seems to happen, can you give us some instrustions on how the profiles work?

It the same with playlists too.

Also when adding albums to a profile we really need to have the artist shown before the album as there is heaps of greatest hits and very best of albums in the list.

Profiles are simply additionnnal info added to an album (like genres). To use them, you have to go in the filters and enable them.
For example, you could set:
Genre to optional, click ANY and select DANCE and TECHNO genres
Profiles to optional, click ANY and select PHIL
Then, your new filter library would includes all dance and techno album and also al the album included in your profile PHIL.
You could also use the filters to only show the albums from your profile PHIL too.
So in other words, profiles are similar to genres.


The playlist are differents. A playlist is seen as an album (the cover will be a green headset) and if you didn't change the sorting order, it will be in the "VARIOUS ARTISTS".

Let me know if you need additional info...

PS: from the help (H key or question mark button), you have this "minimal info"

Code: [Select]

Music Sources - Profiles
Music profiles are a list of albums from the library. It allows the user to create custom genres (ex: Party, Relax, Joe’s Album). These genres can then be used in the filter tab to only display those albums.
The user can add, remove, edit or create profiles. The user can also set an active profile allowing him to build his profile while songs are playing: if the user likes an album, he simply press the profile key or click the profile button.
 
Music Sources - Playlist
Music playlist are albums using songs from the library. It allows the user to create custom albums. These albums are then added to the library.
The user can add, remove, edit or create profiles. The user can also set an active playlist allowing him to build his playlist while songs are playing: if the user likes a song, he simply press the playlist key or click the playlist button.

Jay

[superbigjay]

Also when adding albums to a profile we really need to have the artist shown before the album as there is heaps of greatest hits and very best of albums in the list.

When editing the profile, you should see it as :
ARTIST-YEAR-ALBUMTITLE

If not, you can change how album are displayed in profiles with:
OPTIONS --> DISPLAY_TAB --> ALBUM_DISPLAY --> PROFILES
By default, it should be
ALBUM_ARTIST - <DASH> - ALBUM_YEAR - <DASH> ALBUM_TITLE

If this is not what you mean, could you insert a screen snapshot to illustrate what you mean?

Jay

[superbigjay]

In 1.04 the display song flags isn't showing up, it did in alpha 1.03.
Also noticed that the music volume seems to magically increase sometimes when exiting the options menu. 

For the volume, is your OPTIONS - STARTUP - RESTORE_AUDIO checked?
If so, try to uncheck it. Probably that I call the restore audio settings after the config is modified instead of only at boot.
I'll check this when I get some spare time to code...

As for the display song flags, are you talking about the 3 line of info displayed for the album when fast scrolling the album?

[superbigjay]

Sounds like fun with snow, we never get snow here. 

Just found a bug similar to the previous one with scrolling the albums, this one is when you select a album song list and hold down the up or down arrow, instead of seeing highlighted bit move through the song lists it stops after highlighting just the next two songs then when you release the up or down button the highlighted song appears way down the list depending on how long you held it down of course.

Hope that makes sense.

Also, if it's easy to impliment perhaps make it so all song lists loop so when you are at the bottom of the list and press down again it should loop back to the top of the list and vice versa etc.

Same with the jump list, queue list etc.

The scroll wrap around shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Added to 1.05 wish list.
I'll try to replicate the song display not highlighting on my XP cab. If it is the same probllem, I should be able to apply the same solution.

[superbigjay]

Just found a bug similar to the previous one with scrolling the albums, this one is when you select a album song list and hold down the up or down arrow, instead of seeing highlighted bit move through the song lists it stops after highlighting just the next two songs then when you release the up or down button the highlighted song appears way down the list depending on how long you held it down of course.

I was able to replicate the problem when scrolling song list in that album.
Was the problem also present with jump and queue? or was that last comment only to implement the scroll wrap around? (I wasn't able to replicate the problem for the queue nor jump)...

So for now : fixed for album's song list
Jay

[superbigjay]

In 1.04 the display song flags isn't showing up, it did in alpha 1.03.

As for the display song flags, are you talking about the 3 line of info displayed for the album when fast scrolling the album?

Or do you mean the info in parenthesis after the song.

Including 3 snapshots:
- without flag
- with played flag
- with song count

If you're talking about those infos, you have te set:
OPTION - DISPLAY_TAB - DISPLAY_SONG_FLAGS

And you also have to ennable a random mode that use that flag
OPTION-AUDIO_ENGINE-RANDOM_MODE
- SONG_UNPLAYED to display the unplayed flg
- STAT to display the count flag

Let me know if this is what you are talking about.
These snapshot were taken with 1.04

[RetroBorg]

Profiles are simply additionnnal info added to an album (like genres). To use them, you have to go in the filters and enable them.
For example, you could set:
Genre to optional, click ANY and select DANCE and TECHNO genres
Profiles to optional, click ANY and select PHIL
Then, your new filter library would includes all dance and techno album and also al the album included in your profile PHIL.
You could also use the filters to only show the albums from your profile PHIL too.
So in other words, profiles are similar to genres.


The playlist are differents. A playlist is seen as an album (the cover will be a green headset) and if you didn't change the sorting order, it will be in the "VARIOUS ARTISTS".

Let me know if you need additional info...

PS: from the help (H key or question mark button), you have this "minimal info"

Code: [Select]

Music Sources - Profiles
Music profiles are a list of albums from the library. It allows the user to create custom genres (ex: Party, Relax, Joe’s Album). These genres can then be used in the filter tab to only display those albums.
The user can add, remove, edit or create profiles. The user can also set an active profile allowing him to build his profile while songs are playing: if the user likes an album, he simply press the profile key or click the profile button.
 
Music Sources - Playlist
Music playlist are albums using songs from the library. It allows the user to create custom albums. These albums are then added to the library.
The user can add, remove, edit or create profiles. The user can also set an active playlist allowing him to build his playlist while songs are playing: if the user likes a song, he simply press the playlist key or click the playlist button.

Jay

Oh, no worries, can confirm playlist appears under various artists.

[RetroBorg]

When editing the profile, you should see it as :
ARTIST-YEAR-ALBUMTITLE

If not, you can change how album are displayed in profiles with:
OPTIONS --> DISPLAY_TAB --> ALBUM_DISPLAY --> PROFILES
By default, it should be
ALBUM_ARTIST - <DASH> - ALBUM_YEAR - <DASH> ALBUM_TITLE

If this is not what you mean, could you insert a screen snapshot to illustrate what you mean?

Jay

Can confirm that works correctly, I had changed how profiles displayed.

[RetroBorg]

In 1.04 the display song flags isn't showing up, it did in alpha 1.03.
Also noticed that the music volume seems to magically increase sometimes when exiting the options menu. 

For the volume, is your OPTIONS - STARTUP - RESTORE_AUDIO checked?
If so, try to uncheck it. Probably that I call the restore audio settings after the config is modified instead of only at boot.
I'll check this when I get some spare time to code...

It was checked, I have now unchecked it and can confirm the volume problem still exists with it unchecked.

As for the display song flags, are you talking about the 3 line of info displayed for the album when fast scrolling the album?

Just the played number in brackets after the song name but do't worry I didn't have it in the right random mode, it shows up once I did that, thanks.

[RetroBorg]

The scroll wrap around shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Added to 1.05 wish list.

Thanks.

[RetroBorg]

I was able to replicate the problem when scrolling song list in that album.
Was the problem also present with jump and queue? or was that last comment only to implement the scroll wrap around? (I wasn't able to replicate the problem for the queue nor jump)...

So for now : fixed for album's song list
Jay

No problem just present in the song list, works good on queue and jump.

By the way just have to say how much better your jump screen is over SK Jukebox, it's awesome how it picks up the artists and allows you to scroll through, probably my single favourite feature so far!

[superbigjay]

By the way just have to say how much better your jump screen is over SK Jukebox, it's awesome how it picks up the artists and allows you to scroll through, probably my single favourite feature so far!

Cool   

[superbigjay]

new issue with alpha 1.04 WINXP MINGW4.7.4

- superbigjay 20121230
     When going from maximized view to normal view or going into the options
     to switch to full screen, the window disapear and we have to call the
     task manager to kill the process

Can someone verify they also get that bug with the WIN7 release? (I have it with the virtual machine)
If so, you'll have to ALT-CTRL-DEL to call the task manager and kill the uroJUKEstyx since the windows won't be available.

Jay 

[superbigjay]

It was checked, I have now unchecked it and can confirm the volume problem still exists with it unchecked.

Can you try to set OPTIONS-AUDIO_ENGINE-RANDOM_SONG_VOLUME to 100%, save the config, exit, reload the program and see if the problem persist?

[superbigjay]

new issue with alpha 1.04 WINXP MINGW4.7.4

- superbigjay 20121230
     When going from maximized view to normal view or going into the options
     to switch to full screen, the window disapear and we have to call the
     task manager to kill the process

Can someone verify they also get that bug with the WIN7 release? (I have it with the virtual machine)
If so, you'll have to ALT-CTRL-DEL to call the task manager and kill the uroJUKEstyx since the windows won't be available.

Jay 

I now have a good idea of the problem and am able to replicate it, so no need to try it on your side... It will be fixed in 1.05

[RetroBorg]

new issue with alpha 1.04 WINXP MINGW4.7.4

- superbigjay 20121230
     When going from maximized view to normal view or going into the options
     to switch to full screen, the window disapear and we have to call the
     task manager to kill the process

Can someone verify they also get that bug with the WIN7 release? (I have it with the virtual machine)
If so, you'll have to ALT-CTRL-DEL to call the task manager and kill the uroJUKEstyx since the windows won't be available.

Jay 

Same problem for me.

[RetroBorg]

It was checked, I have now unchecked it and can confirm the volume problem still exists with it unchecked.

Can you try to set OPTIONS-AUDIO_ENGINE-RANDOM_SONG_VOLUME to 100%, save the config, exit, reload the program and see if the problem persist?

The most the randon song volume will go to is 99%.

Okay I reloaded the program after adjusting to 99% and went into options and exited and nothing changed, I then moved the volume slider down to 5% went into options and exited and the volume went up to 99%.

[superbigjay]

Okay I reloaded the program after adjusting to 99% and went into options and exited and nothing changed, I then moved the volume slider down to 5% went into options and exited and the volume went up to 99%.

Ok, thanks for the sequence, I was able to replicate it too.
The problem is related to the random volume feature. It's a bit compplicated...
The logic behind that feature is:
- When the player detect a transition from an user's selected to a random song, it reduces the current volume by scaling it with the multiplication ratio specified in the config.
- Same goes with transition random->user's selected

- The volume value saved in memory in updated ecerytime the user change the volume while a normal song is playing, or when a random song is playing and the new volume is greater than the stored value.

But that algorithm should never be applied when exiting the cconfig   

I have modified the volume ranngo from 0-99 - to 1-100, where value 100% is supposed to completely disable the feature (since multiplying by 100% doesn't change the value).

Now that I can replicate the problem on my side, I should be able to fix it soon enough (as soon as I get some time to code...)

PS:
the sequence I use is (based on yours) is:
- in the config, set the random volum to 100% (99%)
- add a song
- adjust the volume to max (this will store the volume value at 100%)
- turn the random mode on (if not already on)
- next song to play that random song
- adjust the volume to 50% (or anything lower than 100%)

And now, everytime you go and exit the options, or the song changes, the volume goes up to 100%


Anyways, I'll fix it for 1.05

Thanks

[superbigjay]

yeah i guessed the misinterpretation of my request , cant see any need for a move to bottom , must move selected song to top and the rest step down one in the cue

egosbar, can you confirm if you want to be able to select multiple songs at once and being able to move them up/down by one or to top/bottom, or simply wish to have the new option to move a single selected song to the top/bottom?  Let me know, so that I update the 1.05 wishlist.

Jay 

[superbigjay]

Temporary release that takes care of:

- RetroBorg 20121230
     Just found a bug similar to the previous one with scrolling the albums,
     this one is when you select a album song list and hold down the up or down arrow,
     instead of seeing highlighted bit move through the song lists it stops after
     highlighting just the next two songs then when you release the up or down button
     the highlighted song appears way down the list depending on how long you held it
     down of course.
  Done 20121230
     uroQLISTWIDGET fixed to force refresh (repaint)
 
- RetroBorg 20121230
     the music volume seems to magically increase sometimes
     when exiting the options menu
  Done 20121231
     volume is restore at boot only, not after config update
     store volume value whenever the user modify it, regarless of song type (normal/random)
     adjust volume when song transition normal->random is detected (savedVolume*randomVolumeRatio)
     restore volume value when song transition (random->noral) is detected (savedVolume)

- superbigjay 20121230
     When going from maximized view to normal view or going into the options
     to switch to full screen, the window disapear and we have to call the
     task manager to kill the process
  Done 20121231
     fix where geometry of juke is saved in order to avoid the wrong 0x0 size that caused the problem.




Still pending:
- egosbar 20121229
     View Queue List : Move To Top/Bottom
  Todo ??
 
- egosbar 20121229
     View Queue List : Support multiselection with config switch (TBC)
  Todo ??
      waiting for egosbar answer.

- RetroBorg 20121230
     Also, if it's easy to impliment perhaps make it so all song lists loop so
     when you are at the bottom of the list and press down again it should loop
     back to the top of the list and vice versa etc.
     Same with the jump list, queue list etc
  Todo ??


Here's the link for only the executable.
To install, simply extract the exe and ovrewrite the one from your previous release.

uroJUKEstyx 1.05 temporary version for win7

[RetroBorg]

Temporary release that takes care of:

- RetroBorg 20121230
     Just found a bug similar to the previous one with scrolling the albums,
     this one is when you select a album song list and hold down the up or down arrow,
     instead of seeing highlighted bit move through the song lists it stops after
     highlighting just the next two songs then when you release the up or down button
     the highlighted song appears way down the list depending on how long you held it
     down of course.
  Done 20121230
     uroQLISTWIDGET fixed to force refresh (repaint)
 
- RetroBorg 20121230
     the music volume seems to magically increase sometimes
     when exiting the options menu
  Done 20121231
     volume is restore at boot only, not after config update
     store volume value whenever the user modify it, regarless of song type (normal/random)
     adjust volume when song transition normal->random is detected (savedVolume*randomVolumeRatio)
     restore volume value when song transition (random->noral) is detected (savedVolume)

- superbigjay 20121230
     When going from maximized view to normal view or going into the options
     to switch to full screen, the window disapear and we have to call the
     task manager to kill the process
  Done 20121231
     fix where geometry of juke is saved in order to avoid the wrong 0x0 size that caused the problem.

Here's the link for only the executable.
To install, simply extract the exe and ovrewrite the one from your previous release.

uroJUKEstyx 1.05 temporary version for win7

Can confirm these problems are fixed. 

[RetroBorg]

Found a bug with the "N" (Next Song) feature.

I have a song playing and songs queued in the queue and press "N" and the next song in queue may start playing or it may choose the last song in queue instead to play.

Can't find any pattern in repeating the error, it seems really random. 

[superbigjay]

Found a bug with the "N" (Next Song) feature.

I have a song playing and songs queued in the queue and press "N" and the next song in queue may start playing or it may choose the last song in queue instead to play.

Can't find any pattern in repeating the error, it seems really random. 

hmmm, nice one??
Is it always the first or the last song of the queue? or is it any song?
If so, is the random button is off in the queue section (dark blue)?

Jay

[superbigjay]

If so, is the random button is off in the queue section (dark blue)?

Example with random queue ON (light blue)

In that example, I added the Bob Seger Album (first song was automatically played). Then, I pressed NEXT_SONG, which took a random song (number 5) instead of the next song which is normal behavior for random queue.

If not, enable all debug traces (at least the audio engine one), exit and restart the program and play around until you get the problem. Then exit and email me the uroDEBUG.txt located in the uroFILES folder. (my email is in the help, or simply think of GMAIL  )
If I'm lucky, there will be enough infoo in the debug trace to find the source of the probllem

Jay

[superbigjay]

If not, enable all debug traces (at least the audio engine one), exit and restart the program and play around until you get the problem. Then exit and email me the uroDEBUG.txt located in the uroFILES folder. (my email is in the help, or simply think of GMAIL  )
If I'm lucky, there will be enough infoo in the debug trace to find the source of the probllem

And tell me which song was played instead of which song.  Also, please include your uroJUKEstyx.ini file

[RetroBorg]

Sorry mate false alarm, yes the random queue was light blue, I unchecked and the queue works flawlessly. 

[superbigjay]

Sorry mate false alarm, yes the random queue was light blue, I unchecked and the queue works flawlessly. 

All right, no problem!

I'll try tom implement the remaining issues tomorrow:

Still pending:
- egosbar 20121229
     View Queue List : Move To Top/Bottom
  Todo ...
 
- egosbar 20121229
     View Queue List : Support multiselection with config switch (TBC)
  Todo ...
      waiting for egosbar answer to see if needed?

- RetroBorg 20121230
     Also, if it's easy to impliment perhaps make it so all song lists loop so
     when you are at the bottom of the list and press down again it should loop
     back to the top of the list and vice versa etc.
     Same with the jump list, queue list etc
  Todo ...

Question for egosbar,
for the "ViewQueue"

I'll add to move to top/bottom buttons.

Do you want to be able to select multiple songs?
Any objection if I remove the 4 buttons (scroll up, scroll down, goto top, goto bottom)? These buttons aren't really useful since it requires mouse and that the scrollbars allows you to do the same thing.

Jay 

[egosbar]

sorry mate thought i answered the other day , couple of guys down at work and xmas new year , havent had much time too spare

one song move to top of cue is all you need , for my profile playlist ill probably have up to 400 songs , its a good playlist for a party and guests can scroll though and move thier own favorites to the top of list , i have seen jukes that move the song to the top and replace the song at top with the song that was moved ( dont want that)

cant really see the point of multiselection , if your scrolling down its very easy to hit the move to top button , touchjams does it very well