Author Topic: New jukebox freeware (Read 15341 times)

Kfam · « **on:** October 24, 2003, 02:53:14 am »

I started this program after using VMJ for a while. I liked VMJ, but some things about it just wasn't the way I wanted, so I decided to make my own. The site is a little simple right now cause I don't have time to work on it for a few days, but I'll have more info and forums up soon. It's called PartyBox (since I mostly use it for parties) and it's freeware. I'll take requests for features, but can't make promises. I'm making this for my own use and decided to share. It still wouldn't hurt to ask though, since most of the features I put in came from actual use of the program and seeing the need for the feature. Once again until the site is fully up, you can ask questions here. You can read the readme in the folder you install to or by selecting it in the help menu.

One note: This was made and tested in WinXP (Home and Pro) and might not work in other versions of windows. WMP9 is also required (but is installed in XP by default anyway).

Get it here:
http://members.iglou.com/kfam76/

Bill_S · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2003, 12:33:04 pm »

Did you happen to have any screenshots?
I'm pretty lazy and want to know if I like the way it looks before I install it.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2003, 02:19:17 pm »

Yeah, I second that.
Freeware is great! Ever considered making it open source too?

Bill_S · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2003, 04:48:31 pm »

I had a flash of motivation and tried it out quick.
Here's a couple screenies.

Lave Laar · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2003, 04:48:40 pm »

I think it's great. I'm not really into album jukeboxes but this one I liked. At first it looks a little plain, but once you start to explore it you can tell that you have put a lot of work into it. Very easy to set up. A couple of suggestions :

1. Option to select what info you want displayed for the song. Artist / song / album. Read this info from the ID3 Tag.
2. A column on the selection screen displaying the songs currently selected.
3. Possiblilty to change color / fonts. I realise you can change this from windows display settings, but it would be nice to be able to change it directly in the program. Maybe be able to put a picture at the background.
4. Option to stay at the selected album if you want to select more than one song from the album.
5. Highlight the selected songs in a different color.
6. On the infoscreen it would be nice to choose what elements you want to show. E.g let the selected list fill the whole right side and not show the most popular songs.
7. Press any of the selection-keys to enter the selection-mode.

Great effort for a first release. What did you use to write it ?

Kfam · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2003, 11:26:21 pm »

Thanx for the feedback. Sorry for the lack of screenshots, but I work full time during the week and didn't have time to really work on the site. I'll try to make a better one over the weekend.

I will admit even to me it looks a little plain. I want to eventually skin it, but at first I kept changing the look of the program so much that making a skin was pointless (would have to make a new one a lot). Then, after that, I was kinda on a roll of adding new features before my next party that I haven't really fooled with making a skin yet. Even when I do the skins will be pretty simple. Since I'm mainly making it to be able to be used by keyboard only, I don't have any buttons. I do plan on getting some type of skin in though. Now for the suggestions:

1. Do you mean the info for the current song playing at the top? Thats sounds like a real good idea. I'll make an option for complete customization (ie. you can use %A for artist etc and even add your own text). I also plan on use ID3v1 tag info more. One of the main things I wanted was the genre limit and the tags were the easiest way to do that. I haven't really used them since then but plan to (optionally of course)

2. Not sure which screen you mean. Do you mean after you bring up an album?

3. It's funny you mentioned that. After I had already set up everything and uploaded PartyBox, I thought that I didn't have that in there. Obviously at first with only me using it there was no need. I'll try to get that in soon. A picture in the background is basically what the skins will probably end up being. Like I said I have no buttons so the only thing to skin right now are the backgrounds.

4. Yeah thats on the todo list. I've noticed the need for that too. As well as a "Page Down" feature for albums with a lot of songs (for when using only a keyboard)

5. I would like to do this. Right now I have it set up to mark the selected song (you can set it up in options). I am using visual basic though and so far haven't used any 3rd party controls which I would need to do since the normal listbox doesn't support what I would need to do. I'll try to see if I can't find something else.

6. Once again, an issue of me setting this up for myself at first. I'll look into it and see what I can do (should be easy, just depends on which new features I wanna work on first)

7. What all do you consider selection-keys? Right now pressing the page changing keys "Left" and "Right" will bring up the album screen.

Like I said above, I'm using visual basic.

Once again, thanx for the feedback. PartyBox will always be freeware, however I'm not sure if I want to go open source or not.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2003, 02:54:10 am »

I haven't reied it yet, but can you use it in an arcade cabinet, i.e. using the cursor keys plus no more than 4 other buttons?
Thanks

Bill_S · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2003, 08:28:26 am »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 25, 2003, 02:54:10 am

I haven't reied it yet, but can you use it in an arcade cabinet, i.e. using the cursor keys plus no more than 4 other buttons?
Thanks

I was trying that last night, and unfortunately it doesn't seem like that's possible. At least I didn't find a way in the 10 minutes I tried before my 2 year old jumped on my lap and starting banging on the keyboard.

Kfam · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2003, 01:17:17 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 25, 2003, 02:54:10 am

I haven't reied it yet, but can you use it in an arcade cabinet, i.e. using the cursor keys plus no more than 4 other buttons?
Thanks

No, not right now. I could look into setting up a way to select songs that way, but you would still need more keys and a mouse for the initial set-up. PartyBox can be set up to start playing at start. It can even remember it's exact state, like what song was playing and where it was at in the song. It can even remember the selected songs. I'll see what I can do, but now is the time to suggest your preferred way of navigating with your set-up before I make my own. Right now albums are selected by row and column, using A,B,C for rows and 1,2,3,4,5 for columns. So for the 3rd album on row B you press the keys you have set up for B and then 3. After that the album comes up and you use up and down to select a song with the select key. The main problem you would have there is picking an album. Just off the top of my head, I could set up 2 keys (one for the row and one for colums). Pressing either would bring up a box with A1 in it and short instructions. Then, pressing the row key would change A to A,B, or C and pressing the column key would change 1 to 1,2,3,4, or 5. Once you set it to the album you want you would then press select to bring up that album. That way would require a lot less key presses then just using left an right to select an album (which is another way I though of). Let me know what you think. You still have a little bit of time before I start working on PartyBox again, since I'm working on the webpage right now. Soon there will be plenty of screenshots showing all of PartyBox's features. Well, except for the videos. Since videos are overlayed they don't get captured. PartyBox does play videos fullscreen or mostly full screen (depending on your settings) though since that was something else very important to me.

Kfam · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2003, 05:23:12 pm »

Ok, I've finished the main page and screenshots, so I went ahead and put them up. I'm still working on more though. Also, the best way to see if you like PartyBox is to download it and try. It's free, and you don't even have to sign up or anything to download (I hate when sites do that).

Kfam · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2003, 06:59:20 pm »

Theres now more info on the site. Just click on the tips link on the left.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2003, 10:07:10 pm »

Quote from: Kfam on October 25, 2003, 01:17:17 pm

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 25, 2003, 02:54:10 am
I haven't reied it yet, but can you use it in an arcade cabinet, i.e. using the cursor keys plus no more than 4 other buttons?
Thanks

No, not right now. I could look into setting up a way to select songs that way, but you would still need more keys and a mouse for the initial set-up. PartyBox can be set up to start playing at start. It can even remember it's exact state, like what song was playing and where it was at in the song. It can even remember the selected songs. I'll see what I can do, but now is the time to suggest your preferred way of navigating with your set-up before I make my own. Right now albums are selected by row and column, using A,B,C for rows and 1,2,3,4,5 for columns. So for the 3rd album on row B you press the keys you have set up for B and then 3. After that the album comes up and you use up and down to select a song with the select key. The main problem you would have there is picking an album. Just off the top of my head, I could set up 2 keys (one for the row and one for colums). Pressing either would bring up a box with A1 in it and short instructions. Then, pressing the row key would change A to A,B, or C and pressing the column key would change 1 to 1,2,3,4, or 5. Once you set it to the album you want you would then press select to bring up that album. That way would require a lot less key presses then just using left an right to select an album (which is another way I though of). Let me know what you think. You still have a little bit of time before I start working on PartyBox again, since I'm working on the webpage right now. Soon there will be plenty of screenshots showing all of PartyBox's features. Well, except for the videos. Since videos are overlayed they don't get captured. PartyBox does play videos fullscreen or mostly full screen (depending on your settings) though since that was something else very important to me.

I don't think anyone is worried about needing more jeys/mouse for settings things up, you do needs a full keyboards for setting a a mame cabinet.
I agree with you that the way you describe it involves too many key-presses to select one song. I think that using the arrow keys to navigate which album you want, then one key (for example "1") to select the album, then up/down to select track with a key to select (probably the same as before) and another to exit without selecting (for example "2").
Since there are 15 albums on the screen at a time you would need a way to "jump" to the next (or previous) 16 albums for example keys LEFT-CTRL and ALT.
Add one key to exit (ESC) and you're just about there.
Of course extras like volume up/down would be welcome too...
FYI, VMJ can be setup mostly like that, and the setup I describe is compatible with a basic cabinet panel (the example key I used work great also for people used to the MameWah frontend).
I haven't gotten a chance to try the software yet, so I'll give it a try and get back to you...

Kfam · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:59:48 am »

Ok. I pretty much got the site the way I want it right now with the exception of forums wich I'll be looking into soon. After that I'll get back to working on some of the requests. Just to make sure I got everything, please check out the requests section on my site and let me know if there is any thing else. Here is the url http://members.iglou.com/kfam76/requests.html.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:38:17 pm »

An option to select all tracks on the album would be nice. Not very useful for a party, but when using it for background music (like when playing a couple games of pool in the game room), it's nice to be able to listen to a whole album.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:14:32 pm »

I gave the program a try and I like it, I'd definitely run it on my cabinet if it had an arcade navigation mode. My previous post is kind of confusing so I will re-iterate what I think an arcade navigation mode would look like:

1) Use the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to navigate the albums in the screen of 15 albums. This implies that the currently selected album is highlighted so that you see where you are in the screen.

2) Maybe when you are at the extreme right of the screen, pressing the RIGHT key causes to display the next 15 albums. When you are at the extreme left of the screen, pressing the LEFT key causes to display the previous 15 albums

3) Even if point 2 above is implemented you still want a shortcut to skip forward 15 and skip back 15, so you need one key for each. I suggest LEFT-CTRL and ALT because those are the default for buttons 1 and 2 for player 1 in mame, so most cabinets will have those already mapped.

4) You want a way to select the album currently highlighted. I suggest using key "1" because it's the default player 1 button so most cabinets will have it already. It's also the "select" button under MameWah, the front end I currently use, so it'll feel natural for MameWah users.

5) while in the current album view, using the UP/DOWN keys to navigate the track list, then press "1" to select a track. As pointed out ealier, an entry to select all tracks would be great.

6) I suggest using button "2" to exit the current "level", for example to exit from single album view to 15 album view. Again this is similar to the MameWah keymap and will feel natural to those users.

7) ESC exits the program entirely

Of course you don't want to have any kinf of confirmation pop-ups. While those could be answered with one of the arcade buttons, they look un-arcadish.

These to me would be the minimum controls to make the software useable on a cabinet.

I think that optional keys would include:

9) Volume Up/Down (I'm not sure how the save volume for each song feature work, although my understanding is that it's something you do only once when you import the song, so this would be a master volume up/down)

10) Mute button?

Not arcade control related, but other possible suggestion: have an automatic setting to adjust the track volume (maybe done when you add the track to the collection) by determining how loud the track is and figuring out a volume automatically to bring it in line with other tracks.

Keep up the great work, I'd be willing to be a beta tester on the arcade controls stuff.

Kfam · « **Reply #15 on:** October 28, 2003, 01:55:35 am »

Thanks. First I'd like to point out that you can currently and will always be able to set ANY "button" to any key you want. You can do this in the key settings.

1. I decided that among what you describe here, I will also put in other ways and give you an option to pick which way you like best.

2. This kinda fits in to my answer to 1

3. Once again this fits in with 1 and as I said above you will be able to set them to what ever key you want.

4. Same as above, you'll be able to set it to any key, but it would make since to add this to one of the functions the "select" key does.

5. This is pretty much how it currently works. You use "up" and "down" to select a track and then press "select" to pick it. Also, right now there is a "select all" key too, but I belive you are asking for a select all to be listed on the track list. I'm sure I can do that.

6. This is what the "Return" key does. ONce again, you can set it to what ever key you want.

7. This is also already in and is even set to the ESC key by default. By default it does ask you if your sure, but that can be turned off (I only got it in cause I've had a prob with people pressing the ESC key not knowing it would exit)

9. Heres the tip from my site explaining how the volume thing works:

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Have Low Quality/Volume Songs?
PartyBox can remember different volume settings for each song. If one of your songs have a lower volume then the others, you can go to the general settings and check 'Remember Song Volumes'. Then, for example, you can set the default volume to 50%. When the low volume song play just raise the volume to 100%. Now it will always play at 100% volume while other songs will be at 50%. Just turn up the volume on your speakers so you can hear the low volume song and now the normal ones won't be to loud when they play.

I controll the master volume from my speakers, so I never really thought of setting keys for a master volume, but I could look into it. I only put the current volume feature in cause I got tired of adjusting the volume for songs that were low, and then the next song coming on and being to loud.

10. Another thing I never really thought about, since I would probably pause before I used mute. If it is really wanted though I could put it in too.

Also here is a link to the tips section on my site. It has a lot of usefull info on using PartyBox http://members.iglou.com/kfam76/tips.html

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2003, 12:23:27 pm »

Thanks for the answers. Yes I know that a lot of what I describe is already in place, which is why it's probably not too bad to get it 100% arcade control compatible, I was just trying to be comprehensive in describing what I was envisionning the interface to be. I also think it's greewat you made the keys configurable from the start, once again I was "thinking aloud" about what keys I'd be using on my own panel.

on 5) Yes I'd like a select all to be added, for example jsut before the list of track (if you've used VMJ, it has an option to do that).

on 10) I agree with you, Pause is better than Mute, forget about mute...

My speakers are embedded in the cabinet and I haven't yet figured out a way to adjust the volument from the speakers themselves (the volume button is not accessible at the moment). While I will probably eventually figure out a way to change the volume at the speaker level, I still think volume keys would be useful (but optional).

By the way, I like the web page, clean and simple, you didn't try to go crazy with eyecandy...

Alcohol · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2003, 01:46:42 pm »

i have to say iam very impressed with this program..
i use arcade jukebox 7 atm but somtimes find that its a toil going thruough all the albums to get to the one you want, as i put lp's in my box and not singles

i would use this in my cabinet if i could navigate the lp's using the joystick.. all the other controls seem as if they would work well considering you can map all the keys.. i have a 2 player cabinet so i recon theres enough buttons available

so all it really needs is a better looking skin and the ability to select lp's with the joystick.. anything more than that will be a bonus

good work!!

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #18 on:** October 28, 2003, 09:53:59 pm »

If your using Visual basic for your app you should try setting the form background to a image.

This way you can have the program skinable

you would have to make 1 or 2 images for the program and these would just be in the background instead of the grey background but you can make it look quite interesting making it look complicated or simplistic

I just did a very quick pic of how it can look like with a skin.

I have only done a few things but you get how it would work

you can skin the whole thing if you wanted to i just skinned a few small bits as a demo

Kfam · « **Reply #19 on:** October 29, 2003, 02:24:56 am »

Thanx for all the comments.

Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on October 28, 2003, 09:53:59 pm

If your using Visual basic for your app you should try setting the form background to a image.

This way you can have the program skinable

you would have to make 1 or 2 images for the program and these would just be in the background instead of the grey background but you can make it look quite interesting making it look complicated or simplistic

I just did a very quick pic of how it can look like with a skin.

I have only done a few things but you get how it would work you can skin the whole thing if you wanted to i just skinned a few small bits as a demo

Yeah, like I said above (at least I think i did), I've already had a skin on it in the very beginning stages of development doing something like that. However since I was constently changing the look of PartBox, I would have to make a new skin. Eventually I just tok the skin out to wait till the interface wasn't changing as much. Now that I've released it, I can go ahead and put the skins back in. That way even if the interface does change, you all will still be able to make your own new skins untill I have time to make one. Anyways, the whole point of having skins is so the users can make thier own.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #20 on:** October 29, 2003, 10:53:40 am »

Is it possible / hard to add support for Real Audio? I have part of my collection in .rms format so if there is a way to play "through" real player I would be able to play my entire collection.

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #21 on:** October 29, 2003, 10:52:34 pm »

i wouldnt think it be hard as he's using media player 9

but he would have to change the files that are shown in his program.

But i like this program very much

its prob my second fav (dosbox my first) im still stuck in the dos era

i dont wanna go let me stay in dos land $:-\$

Kfam · « **Reply #22 on:** October 30, 2003, 04:04:38 am »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 29, 2003, 10:53:40 am

Is it possible / hard to add support for Real Audio? I have part of my collection in .rms format so if there is a way to play "through" real player I would be able to play my entire collection.

PartyBox uses windows media player 9, so it's posible to add anything it will play. However, I don't think that WMP9 can play real audio files, so it might not be posible.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #23 on:** October 30, 2003, 09:58:03 am »

No I don't believe WM9 plays Real Audio file, especially not the encrypted (*.rms) ones. That's what I suspected. Oh well, maybe it's time to re-rip those $:-\$
Keep up the good work!

Lave Laar · « **Reply #24 on:** October 30, 2003, 04:45:12 pm »

How is the sorting of the files done in the selection screen. I guess by filename, but that does not always seem to be true. It would be nice to be able to sort the list by filename, but show the info from the ID3 Tags.
An option to hide the scrollbars on the infoscreen would also be good. It would make it look a little less like a windows-program.
If the program in addition could remember the last folder used when adding the albums it would be great.

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #25 on:** October 30, 2003, 05:39:36 pm »

I finally tryed the program proper (didnt have any mp3 on this pc) and it didnt work it keep crashing and would show and dirs i had mp3 in it.

But after 6 goes it finally showed

it seams to work but you have problem i only had to albums and when i pushed A3 (i was meaning to push A2) it crashed cause there was no A3 album so you might wanna check that out as if some1 is just pressing the buttons for fun (which some do

) it crashes the program.

Kfam · « **Reply #26 on:** October 30, 2003, 11:29:53 pm »

Quote from: Lave Laar on October 30, 2003, 04:45:12 pm

How is the sorting of the files done in the selection screen. I guess by filename, but that does not always seem to be true. It would be nice to be able to sort the list by filename, but show the info from the ID3 Tags.
An option to hide the scrollbars on the infoscreen would also be good. It would make it look a little less like a windows-program.
If the program in addition could remember the last folder used when adding the albums it would be great.

They are sorted by filename. However they are also sorted by type kinda. The mp3s will be listed first and then other filetypes if you have them mixed in the same directory. I do plan on using ID3v1 tags more eventually. I should also be able to do your other 2 requests.

Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on October 30, 2003, 05:39:36 pm

I finally tryed the program proper (didnt have any mp3 on this pc) and it didnt work it keep crashing and would show and dirs i had mp3 in it.

But after 6 goes it finally showed

it seams to work but you have problem i only had to albums and when i pushed A3 (i was meaning to push A2) it crashed cause there was no A3 album so you might wanna check that out as if some1 is just pressing the buttons for fun (which some do ) it crashes the program.

You are right about the A3 thing. Something I never really thought about when I was testing. I'm not really sure what you mean in your first sentence. Could you give me more info? Like at what point was it crashing. What did you try to do right before it crashed? Thanx.

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #27 on:** October 31, 2003, 10:53:27 pm »

Sorry about that i was typing in a rush

Say i have 2 albums in the jukebox software that measn A1 A2 work but A3 wont work as there isnt a album for A3 yet

If you push A3 or any album that does not exsist it crashes the program

go ahead and try something like --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- or what not just try 1 that doesnt have an album for it.

Great work

can't wait to make a skin for it

Kfam · « **Reply #28 on:** November 02, 2003, 02:05:08 pm »

I understood that part and already have it fixed for the next release. What I didn't understand was this part:

Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on October 30, 2003, 05:39:36 pm

I finally tryed the program proper (didnt have any mp3 on this pc) and it didnt work it keep crashing and would show and dirs i had mp3 in it.

But after 6 goes it finally showed

Kfam · « **Reply #29 on:** November 02, 2003, 06:19:18 pm »

I now have forums set up. You can find the link on the site. Please post any new requests or questions there.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #30 on:** November 02, 2003, 09:37:17 pm »

I'm not sure I want to monitor yet another forum, so can you at least announce future releases in this forum?

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #31 on:** November 03, 2003, 04:16:47 am »

It wouldnt pick up my folders full of mp3 it ddint show them and then crashed for no reason.

it took 6 tries then it worked all of a sudden

i dont know what was wrong

Kfam · « **Reply #32 on:** November 04, 2003, 02:06:14 am »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on November 02, 2003, 09:37:17 pm

I'm not sure I want to monitor yet another forum, so can you at least announce future releases in this forum?

Sure, no problem. If you have an important question or request though you might want to post on my forum. I'll try to keep checking this board, but posting on mine will get you the quickest response.

Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on November 03, 2003, 04:16:47 am

It wouldnt pick up my folders full of mp3 it ddint show them and then crashed for no reason.

it took 6 tries then it worked all of a sudden

i dont know what was wrong

Hmm. I've tested on three pc's and haven't ran into anything like that. Did you get an error message or did it just crash?

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #33 on:** November 04, 2003, 06:36:47 pm »

I got an error msg before it crashed but i don't remember it.

It works fine now so i wouldnt worry about it

Kfam · « **Reply #34 on:** November 05, 2003, 12:24:05 am »

Here's a link to a post about upcoming updates for those interested. http://partybox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1068013389

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #35 on:** November 05, 2003, 11:05:25 am »

Can you add Arcade Controls soon? It'll increase the number of people that can use the program.
Of course it's your program so you do what you want, but I can't wait to use it in my cabinet!

Kfam · « **Reply #36 on:** November 05, 2003, 11:09:06 pm »

Yes, that will come soon. Most likely in the same release as the font stuff.

Kfam · « **Reply #37 on:** November 09, 2003, 04:47:33 am »

PartyBox v1.3.5 has been released. You can get more info at http://partybox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1068371022.

Alcohol · « **Reply #38 on:** November 09, 2003, 10:12:00 am »

thanks for the info. ill go check it out

saint · « **Reply #39 on:** November 09, 2003, 11:00:47 am »

Added a news blurb about PartyBox and added a link to your new forums under the "Other Forums" link at the top of the message boards here. Looks like good stuff

Please feel free to use the submit-news link when you have updates to the software.

--- saint

Quote from: Kfam on November 09, 2003, 04:47:33 am

PartyBox v1.3.5 has been released. You can get more info at http://partybox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1068371022.

Kfam · « **Reply #40 on:** November 09, 2003, 01:31:52 pm »

Ok I will. Thanx.

Quote from: saint on November 09, 2003, 11:00:47 am

Added a news blurb about PartyBox and added a link to your new forums under the "Other Forums" link at the top of the message boards here. Looks like good stuff Please feel free to use the submit-news link when you have updates to the software.

--- saint

Lave Laar · « **Reply #41 on:** November 10, 2003, 08:52:56 am »

The new skinmode doesn't work for me. The skin shows up alright, but as soon as I start to flip through the albums the program more or less hangs. The loading-indicator for the albumpictures hangs and it is no longer possible to select any album. I can exit the program, but it responds very slowly.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #42 on:** November 10, 2003, 12:16:06 pm »

works for me.

Speaking of the progress bar, I'm not sure I like it, can you make it optional? (not a high priority)

Kfam · « **Reply #43 on:** November 10, 2003, 12:29:17 pm »

Quote from: Lave Laar on November 10, 2003, 08:52:56 am

The new skinmode doesn't work for me. The skin shows up alright, but as soon as I start to flip through the albums the program more or less hangs. The loading-indicator for the albumpictures hangs and it is no longer possible to select any album. I can exit the program, but it responds very slowly.

Hmm, what are your computers specs? I have yet to figure out the min requirements, but I did notice that the skins make the program run a bit slower.

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on November 10, 2003, 12:16:06 pm

works for me.

Speaking of the progress bar, I'm not sure I like it, can you make it optional? (not a high priority)

Yeah I can. That was there because at first I didn't show the covers loading. So when you pressed next it would just sit there untill they were done laoding and then finally show them. People would think they didn't press the button and try pressing it again. I just never got around to taking it out yet.

Lave Laar · « **Reply #44 on:** November 11, 2003, 06:45:10 am »

Quote from: Kfam on November 10, 2003, 12:29:17 pm

Hmm, what are your computers specs? I have yet to figure out the min requirements, but I did notice that the skins make the program run a bit slower.

I'm running the program on a PIII 700 MHz with 512 MB RAM. Windows XP.

Rod1968 · « **Reply #45 on:** November 11, 2003, 09:07:03 pm »

I am also having a problem with the skins mode
I am Running a P4 1.6 with 512MB Ram WinXP Pro
and when using the skin mode the cpu
usage goes to 100% and the program
runs real slow and choppy. I tried to change
the priority but that didn't help

The jukebox works perfect without the
skin mode though.
looking forward to future updates
keep up the good work
Thanks
Rodney

walls83 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 12, 2003, 11:41:27 pm »

Is this program "TOUCH SCREEN" enabled..? Thanks

Kfam · « **Reply #47 on:** November 14, 2003, 12:07:10 am »

Quote from: walls83 on November 12, 2003, 11:41:27 pm

Is this program "TOUCH SCREEN" enabled..? Thanks

I have mainly made sure that PartyBox can be used with only a keyboard. I'm not sure how well it will work with a touch screen, but you can always try it out (it's free).

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #48 on:** November 15, 2003, 04:13:44 pm »

can you add a "default albun art" selection for those albums where I don't have a picture for (yet)?

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #49 on:** November 16, 2003, 03:11:18 am »

Kfam, I have another request:
Can you make the splash screen optional? I understand if you don't want to because you want to get the recognition for writing the progam, but in that case can you delay showing it until the program is entirely loaded?
In my cabinet I use Mamewah as a front end and it shows a "now lauching...." type of window (which you can customize as part ofthe skin), and it gets covered by the splash screen which is not very visually pleasing...

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #50 on:** November 16, 2003, 02:53:39 pm »

yet another request: it appears that currently you can't use the SHIFT/CTRL/ALT keys when programming the keys. Unfortunaly those are the default keys for the buttons for a mame cabinet. Also, it appears that you can't have one key associated with 2 different functions. Maybe that's needed but I wonder is some keys are mutually exclusive depending on context so that they could be defined identically by the user and still not cause useability problems.

I'll try and take a look at the forums on your web page and maybe re-popst some of these questions/requests there.

Kfam · « **Reply #51 on:** November 18, 2003, 12:38:04 am »

Sorry I haven't posted anything. I was sick last week and didn't feel very good. I'll respond to your posts on my forums (since you have already posted there).

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #52 on:** November 19, 2003, 11:16:28 am »

Thanks. I'll try and post on your forum when it's specific issues like this.


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