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Yet Another Jukebox Program
SalmonKing:
--- Quote from: destr0y on July 04, 2005, 03:29:11 am ---Sweeet ;D
Re: the visualisations - I guess another approach to that might be calling a 3rd party app (eg WinAmp or WMP) as your player, from SK Jukebox. No idea how much effort that entails though.. I'd be more than happy with the tweaked screensaver thing :)
Cheers,
Brett
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Been there, done that :-\ ;)
I used WMP 7, 8 and 9 before giving up on it. I looked extensivly at WinAmp as well, but decided against it. Call me old fashioned, but when writing a program, I like to have as much control over what is going on as possible, and I just didn't feel like I was in control when using these programs. It might do for some people, I just didn't get along with it.
Changing engines would take at least a day or 2 solid effort, and I did that 4 times. I'm not going through that again, either, unless I have no choice.
destr0y:
Heheh you fascist ;)
Nah seriously, I agree its not worth the effort!
Cheers,
Brett
Bumblebounces:
First off, I have to be the next to tell you how great this progam is... Absolutely BRILLIANT!!
A little history and then a question:
I was duped by the flash of VMJ and actually paid for it twice by accident (still have never received a refund for that one >:(). The program did what I wanted it to but was so damned buggy that it just wouldn't run reliably without crashing (even on my higher spec machine so I doubt it would have ever run on my juke). I also wasn't real impressed with the way the option screen was presented. Just seemed really amatuer. So, I had to move on...
And move on I did, to JB Sim. This was (and still is) a GREAT jukebox program. It does what it says it does, very reliably. The program is very simple and super stable and only has one bug I am aware of (not even a bug, really). It won't play a song that has a comma in the file name due to the scripting the author uses to control the mp3 decoder (or something like that). Easy enough to work around so I was using it and very happy with it until my wife started to show real interest in my jukebox (once completed). It was missing one feature that I was really after that the author said he was planning to work on. Genre sorting. My wife (and daughter) really wanted a way to seperate their music from mine. I was patient, for a while... I was still waiting, hoping I could remain a loyal JB Sim user, when I decided to heed the advice of some of posters in this topic and try SK Jukebox. Man, am I impressed! Sorry Lawrence, I am moving on again. I registered JB Sim with the author and still have great faith it that programs abilities. It just works. It's not very feature rich, but I still think it might be THE BEST choice, maybe the only choice, if your jukebox has a "low spec" PC installed in it. By design, it requires very little resources. Which brings me to my question(s).
The PC I have installed in my jukebox is a P3 550 with internal video and only 128MB of RAM. JB Sim ran just fine on this and SK Jukebox does run but I am noticing some performance issues with regard to the animation (kinda jerky). My initial testing of this program was done on a P4 3.2 GHz with 512MB RAM and an ATI 64MB video card. Man, does it sail on that. I especially liked the "animate jump" feature on that machine! Talk about some flying images. I know SK has stated that he has a P3 800 with 512MB of RAM. That is not much faster than my machine but it is considerably more memory than I have. He also has stated in this thread that he has a pretty good video card installed. I am wondering if, in the authors opinion, I would get any better animation performance by adding a better video card to the mix than the onboard video? I think I have a PCI ATI 16MB card that might do the trick laying about. Or am I going to also need to increase the amount of RAM I have? I should also mention that I am running Windows XP Pro. I was also thinking I might get better performance by switching to Win 98SE. Didn't really want to do that as I like XP's stability and superior networking abilities, but I do have a copy of 98SE I could use.
Just as a side note, I was getting an occassional crash when using 2.5.0 on this setup. It seemed to happen mostly when the end of one song and the beginning of another was starting. Also, when I hit O to get the options screen, it would crash everytime. I was thinking it might be because of the low spec on the machine but I applied the update to 2.5.3 and it hasn't happened again yet.
Any thoughts or ideas on the above would be appreciated. Thanks very much for providing us all with a great program, free of charge, no less. This program ROCKS!
Bumble
Attaching a pic of my juke for reference... Thanks again!
allroy1975:
is that a clean XP install? Like..how long have you been using it? is it your old dektop that was just cleaned up and thrown in the Juke, or did you format and reinstall?
I've been running it on a Sempron for a while (obviously pretty quick Processor) and and old Geforce 2 video card (again, not really skimpy) but the program is rock solid. I've never had it crash when it's running. I've made settings changes to the app that caused it to wig out and crash, but that was reported and SK fixed it. :)
Anyway, seems to me that a crash is probably something else on the box and not SKJ or hardware. But I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Allroy
SalmonKing:
I would deifinitly put a better card in there. I was using a 2mb video card, and the animation was terrible. I put in a nicer card (64mb AGP), and after a little tweaking of the animation timing, it works great. I can't get the full screen animation working at a reasonable speed, though, which is a shame.
If all you have is a 16mb PCI, I would absolutly pop that in. Put the animation speed way up to the top & let me know if it works well enough! I can't really do much, except make it so you can set the animation timing higher than currently allowed.
If it is still really bad, I'm afraid there's not much I can do, so animation may have to be turned off :'(
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