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Yet Another Jukebox Program
SalmonKing:
Just a little bit of progress info, so you know the program is not dead or abandoned!
Being the end of the financial year here, that means as the creator of accounting software, my company is extremely busy at this time. Couple that with the fact that the start of the financial year is a time when alot of companies now have a fresh year, and a fresh budget to go along with that. This means it's the time of the year alot of our customers look at what they have and ask for additions / changes, etc.
Anyway, that should give you an insight into why I have been quiet for a while now. On to the good stuff! .......
I have been playing with a piece of code that has been requested several times now, that is utilizing the ID3 tags from within MP3 files. It's working very nicely now, although the speed is obviously a drop in what I'm used to with getting the info from the filesystem. When it's released, I would suggest ID3 be used with smaller collections or with the Static Database, so it doesn't have to open every file. Oh, I should mention that it is currently NOT looking for album art in the tags, and I won't do this unless I get enough requests to do it.
Also, here's a list of other things I will be working on, and want to finish before releasing an update :
- Have an option to turn off the album art in the '4 album' view, and pull the song list over to the left. This will make it easier for people with lower resolutions to be able to read what is on the album, and still have the album art showing when you bring it up in the full view.
- Add an option that makes the 2nd credit button put in a custom amount of credits, rather than hard coded at 3.
- Put in a '2 key jump', which will mean you bring up the current Scrollable Jump screen, but rather than scrolling to a letter & pressing Enter (or the Jump key, if you have that option set), if you press 'O', it will jump to that letter.
- If I get time, I would love to put in a 'Name That Tune' game that has been talked about on the boards.
- I upgraded the MP3 engine control to fix a couple of small issues, however there are still some rather bad issues in the current version. Seems it is locking CD / DVD drives whilst my program is open (i.e. while a reference to the control is there), so I am working with them to get that all working / fixed up.
Anyway, hope that gives you a little comfort that I haven't forgotten about the program.
SK.
allroy1975:
Thanks for the update!
Bumblebounces:
--- Quote from: SalmonKing on July 29, 2005, 04:08:21 pm ---I have been playing with a piece of code that has been requested several times now, that is utilizing the ID3 tags from within MP3 files. It's working very nicely now, although the speed is obviously a drop in what I'm used to with getting the info from the filesystem. When it's released, I would suggest ID3 be used with smaller collections or with the Static Database, so it doesn't have to open every file.
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SK-
Will there be an option to turn off the ID3 tag usage altogether? I am happy with the way it works now and my database is not static (yet - still adding stuff all the time so I would live to leave it dynamic)?
Also, while I am here asking... Is there a way to disable the full screen album jump once you key in enough numbers to pick the album? Some of my users find it annoying (it actually scared one girl) plus the art for some of my albums is not that great and making them that large, they just look like %^#$. If the option is there, I haven't found it. Appologies if this is a bonehead question.
Thanks a million
Bumble
SalmonKing:
--- Quote from: Bumblebounces on July 29, 2005, 05:02:38 pm ---
SK-
Will there be an option to turn off the ID3 tag usage altogether? I am happy with the way it works now and my database is not static (yet - still adding stuff all the time so I would live to leave it dynamic)?
Also, while I am here asking... Is there a way to disable the full screen album jump once you key in enough numbers to pick the album? Some of my users find it annoying (it actually scared one girl) plus the art for some of my albums is not that great and making them that large, they just look like %^#$. If the option is there, I haven't found it. Appologies if this is a bonehead question.
Thanks a million
Bumble
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Of course it will only be an option, and it will be OFF by default! I'm not putting all the work I did to 'clean up' my files to waste ;)
As for the 2nd part, do you have Mouse Support turned on? If so, there's an option a couple of ticks under that that will only display the full view if the album art is clicked on. hmmmm...actually, that's not going to work. The program will still want to display the full album if you type in the album number. OK, lemme think about it.
SK.
allroy1975:
--- Quote from: Bumblebounces on July 29, 2005, 05:02:38 pm ---Also, while I am here asking...
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