New project question - Jukebox controls

[fikap]

Hello!

     I am new to this but have had the opportunity to view all of your awesome jukeboxes and am ready to try one out for myself.

    I have a question on which controls I would need to run a good build jukebox. I would use arcade jukebox or virtual music jukebox. I saw the website for Happs controls but wasn't sure if you just bought the switches and the keypad or if their was something else you needed to control them off of a pc keyboard or such.

Thanks for any and all help!

Ryan  

[Zathras]

The first thing I would recommend would be to download both programs and see how you like them to decide on one.  Then use it for a while to see what controls you use typically.

I found with VMJ that I could do about everything with a right and left arrow, a keypad and 4 "group" buttons.  I use the * and # buttons for skip and random.

The above switches would interface to you computer via a keyboard encoder which your computer just sees as a normal keyboard.  I would recommend going to the main site and reading through the pages on arcade controls since they are essentially the same thing.

Hope this helps!

[fikap]

Thanks for the help.

     That is what I gathered from looking at the other displays. I just wanted to make sure I didn't order anything "extra" that I didn't need. I assume the keyboard encoder works via programming the buttons through the software program..correct?

Either way I am sure I can "tinker" and get the run of the land quick. Thanks for your help!

Ryan