Virtaul Jukebox Suggestions

[ArcadeFX]

Just started playing with VJ and have a few comments/questions:

1. It would be nice if the album covers would be kept square. Depending on what resolution you are running they can become rectangular.

2.  Will it be skinnable? The current UI graphics are not really to my liking and the quality of the images is not very good. This is expecailly true when running at a high resolution with Strech Mode enabled.

3. Why did you create a letter/number graphic for the text on that displays the songs?  You are missing the "&" by the way.  Especailly if you decide to make it skinnable, I would suggest using a font for this.  Again, at high resolutions the text is very pixelated.

If you decide to make it skinnable I will be the first in line to make a handfull of skins.

Other than what I mentioned it is the best jukebox to date IMHO.  Great job.

Cheers,

[Mameham]

 Best at what it does. Which is a CD Jukebox. Dos/WinCab is the best "singles" jukebox.

 I love them both... and they're both the best at what they do.

 If the two developers worked together... oh my!

- Mameham

[Chris]

Best at what it does. Which is a CD Jukebox. Dos/WinCab is the best "singles" jukebox.

 I love them both... and they're both the best at what they do.

 If the two developers worked together... oh my!

- Mameham

I'm working on CD-style support as an option, but my internal storage was fairly hardcoded to the singles format, so it's taking a lot of recoding...

--Chris

[Mameham]

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Much worship to you Chris...

Yeah, your song format surely is hardcoded, huh? Of course that's what let me hack it for subdirectory support so I don't mind...

One thing... keep the text file datafiles ( since you're foremost interested in DOS support I imagine you have to... ) it allows for more tweaking on our end...

- Mameham

[Chris]

Yeah, your song format surely is hardcoded, huh? Of course that's what let me hack it for subdirectory support so I don't mind...

What I'm talking about here is internally the labels are stored as Artist, Song1, Song2, which forces two songs and one artist per label.  To support CD-style labelling, I need to allow any number of songs per artist per label.  Not difficult, but I do have to change a lot of references.

--Chris

[VMJ Team]

I've updated Virtual Jukebox and created Version 2 Beta for anyone wishing to play around with it.  The major features have not been added yet (CD ripping and FREEDB access), but some of the new features include:

1) Click on album cover, album title, artist name, cd number to show album in interactive mode (added for touch-screen users)

2) Display 2 or 4 CDs per page (added for touch-screen users)

3) Added "Theme" and display configuration utilities.

4) Made Virtual Jukebox "skinnable"...currently only 1 skin.  But you can all play around with making your own.

5) Displays CD's left to right

6) Added "Auto Accept" mode...when turned on, simply enter the 5 digit number without having to hit OK/Accept

7) Added a Track duration counter

Changed all text to actual fonts instead of graphics...can change all font styles.

9) Ability to remap numeric keys

10) Can display songs inside buttons (in interactive mode) for touch screen users).

11)  Added volume controls (buttons) to "Advanced Controls"

More features to come:

1)  Ability to choose whether to preload all albums or only when needed.

2)  CD ripping utility with FREEDB access

3)  Screensavers

4)  Recognize mp3 shortcuts

5)  Keeping Album covers uniformly square.

Get the update here:
http://www.cybertechdesign.net/software/Jukebox/vj_updates.htm

[Mameham]

To support CD-style labelling, I need to allow any number of songs per artist per label.  Not difficult, but I do have to change a lot of references.

Well that'll be good... While you're in there... How tough would it be to put more than one artist per label? For things like when we have a couple of just one songs per artist?

- Eric