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DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox 3.0 Beta 1 Released
Chris:
--- Quote from: Silver on October 27, 2004, 12:10:10 pm ---version 4???? ::)
arn't you still beta releasing for v3..... ;-)
Anyway - can I ask if the sort-by-genre type option is planned to make an appearance in v3? or is that another v4 option?
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A simple sort is easy; I'll still get that in. I'm going to try to catch up this weekend. I need to fix touchscreen and mouse issues and get back to finishing the album-mode support. I've also got to figure out the periodic crash-to-desktop thing that only seems to plague the Windows version.
MikeAlex:
Hello Chris!
Do you plan to support WMA files?
Thanks.
BTW, great work!!!! :D :D :D
johnman001:
I have a few questions.
I had been using 2.41 for about a year now and just recently put 3.0B4 on my cocktail cabinet. The monitor rotation helps me since my monitor is basically vertical (in a cocktail table).
My questions are:
What changed with the keyboard mapping? In the previous version (2.41), I didn't have any conflicts between mapped alphanumeric keys and the special keys on my keyboard. In this release, my volume up button and my volume down button are mapped somehow to alphanumeric keys.... When I press the up volume or the down volume button, I get an alpha code now, where before I did not.
Is there a way I can disable the special keys from being "seen" by WinCab? (what are the number values corresponding to the keys?)
In radio mode (I set it to 10 second delay), I have problems with the program hanging occasionally. I thought it might be bad MP3 files, but I don't think it is a problem with the MP3 files now. I think it must be an error or a bug.
I also can not seem to be able to get the alternate screen rotation feature to work. Can anyone get that to work???
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Johnman001
Chris:
--- Quote from: johnman001 on November 11, 2004, 12:35:13 am ---What changed with the keyboard mapping? In the previous version (2.41), I didn't have any conflicts between mapped alphanumeric keys and the special keys on my keyboard. In this release, my volume up button and my volume down button are mapped somehow to alphanumeric keys.... When I press the up volume or the down volume button, I get an alpha code now, where before I did not.
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The old version only looked at the keys it needed to function. In the new version, since you can assign multiple keys to a function (explicitly to support cocktail cabinets), it now looks at all the keys. In the controls.ini file, try unmapping every key that you're not using by either mapping the key to DISABLED, commenting out the key definition by putting a # at the beginning of the line, or by deleting the definition altogether. I'm not sure this will help, but it's worth a try.
--- Quote ---In radio mode (I set it to 10 second delay), I have problems with the program hanging occasionally. I thought it might be bad MP3 files, but I don't think it is a problem with the MP3 files now. I think it must be an error or a bug.
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This is a WinCab bug, and I'm trying to track it down. It doesn't seem to happen in DOS. Unfortunately, it's likely to be a memory allocation bug deep in the MP3 library I'm using; I may try another library for testing purposes. Unfortunately, reproducing the bug is next to impossible... if anyone can find a definite sequence of events that leads to the crash, please let me know. Right now, the only way I can test it is to queue up a few hours of music and wait for it to crash; skipping through songs with the Skip key doesn't seem to cause the bug. According to the debug log, the crash happens after the song loads but before it starts playing.
--- Quote ---I also can not seem to be able to get the alternate screen rotation feature to work. Can anyone get that to work???
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That's cause I haven't written it yet. :) It wasn't a priority because I didn't know anyone who was using a cocktail, so I'll go back and work on it if you don't mind being a guinea pig... :)
To rotate the display, I actually have to completely reload the skin, so I'll probably rename some things in this area to make this a general skin-changing feature. Thus, you'd be able to flip between album mode (once I make it work) and singles mode at any time. Actually, now that I'm writing it out, it sounds like a good feature.
--Chris
johnman001:
In the controls.ini, it states that you can call out the key by name or by number. Is that Hex or Decimal? I would be able to disable the Volume+ and Volume- keys if I could enter the HEX or DECIMAL values... I may try it anyway just to see.
Me a guinea pig? Heck no, I don't mind.
I have been adding comments to my .ini files to make it easier for me to assign keys (and more importantly for me to remember what changes I made and why). When I am done commenting, I could send them to you to see what you think. I know the only documentation supplied is in the configuration files.....
I have found several of my MP3 files will crash WinCAB. I have most of them saved in a "badMp3" directory. I had thought that there may have been something wrong with the files, but they play in winamp and media player just fine. Those that I have identified will crash the program just as they complete, not just before playing. I also have seen the program hang just before playing a song.
I really like this jukebox better than any of the others I have tried. Thanks for all the work you have and continue to put into it.
Thanks again.
Johnman
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