DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox 3.0 beta 7 released

[Chris]

DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox 3.0 beta 7 released.

[Dermbrian]

Chris,

I think I've set up the files correctly.  But I seem to have a problem in that when the program goes to display album art, the program bombs out.

If I open so that the first four albums displayed are albums (folders) that do not have album art, then the the default art displays correctly, the song lists display correctly, and I can play songs from those folders.  If I page down and get to a folder that has a jpg file in the song folder, that's when the program shuts down and wants to send an error report to Microsoft (Windows XP).

My artwork is named, for example, "Let It Be Front.jpg" if the album/folder is the Beatle's "Let It Be".  The .jpgs are various sizes, as many are scanned in, photographed, etc, depending on what I had for the albums (LP's) that I ripped.

I hope I'm being clear.   Any quick suggestions?

It looks great in CD mode...hope I can work this out and use it in both modes.


Brian

[Dermbrian]

Chris, I tried a smaller set of folders/albums and came did find that specific album art JPG's are causing WinCAB to abort.  If I move those out of the folders, the CD skins comes up and works fine.  Great, actually.  Very nice work!!!!

Anyway, there apparently can be something about specific JPG files that can cause problems that terminate the program.
One such album cover jpg is

92kb
321 x 285

yet the following sized file works...

77.2kb
305 x 300

But yet I created a test JPG using Microsoft Paint that was >150K, and VERY rectangular, and it worked fine.

Any particular requirements on the JPG's that you're aware of?


Brian

[Chris]

No...  I use JPGs for the background, and they're much larger.  More likely it's some error in the memory allocation for the cover art cache.  Can you set DebugLevel = 5 in jukebox.ini, run it till it crashes and send me the jbdebug.log file?

Thanks!

--Chris

[Chris]

I shouldn't do releases at 3am...

I found a stupid alignment bug on the default skin.. can't imagine why I didn't see this last night.  I've fixed it in the archive; if you've already downloaded it and your artist name is too high on the default skin, get the fix from http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/jukebox/wincab.zip and unzip the wincab.exe inside it over the version you have.

Sorry about that!

--Chris

[froggerman]

Great job Chris! Is there any way to control the shape of the CD album image? It would be nice to be able to keep the CD image square and allow the rest of the space to be used by the song display.
Sorry. It helps if I set the monitor ratio correctly!   

[Dermbrian]

No...  I use JPGs for the background, and they're much larger.  More likely it's some error in the memory allocation for the cover art cache.  Can you set DebugLevel = 5 in jukebox.ini, run it till it crashes and send me the jbdebug.log file?

Thanks!

--Chris

Done. 

I also sent you one of my jpg album covers that the CD skin apparently doesn't like. 

Thanks,
Brian

[Chris]

Great job Chris! Is there any way to control the shape of the CD album image? It would be nice to be able to keep the CD image square and allow the rest of the space to be used by the song display.
Sorry. It helps if I set the monitor ratio correctly!

[froggerman]

I bought a DELL UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor. Using single jukebox strips I get 60 (6x10) title strips / 120 songs. The same as some smaller real jukeboxes. The monitor has a 1.6 aspect ratio (1920x1200). Once I set that and changed FixedDimension = Height from Auto everything worked perfectly. CD covers are nice and square now.

This is a really nice option you have added. I have a large number of albums ripped and this provides a very nice way to access them.

[Chris]

Once I set that and changed FixedDimension = Height from Auto everything worked perfectly. CD covers are nice and square now.

Kind of a shame, though; you'll have a letterbox effect on the sides of the screen.  I'll see if I can whip up a widescreen version of that skin for you...

[JLR2000]

Wow, you've done some great work here, always liked DOScab, but now the CD player skin is awesome.  Is there any way to disable numbering of songs? All of my music is sorted by artist, subfolder album with a subfolder of songs, including the song number in the name.  If I use the CD skin now I get "01 01 First Song, 02 02 Second Song....etc.". Just wondering if you can disable numbering.  Thanks, I'm really enjoying playing with the latest beta!

[Chris]

Wow, you've done some great work here, always liked DOScab, but now the CD player skin is awesome.

[Chris]

I shouldn't do releases at 3am...

I found a stupid alignment bug on the default skin.. can't imagine why I didn't see this last night.

[JLR2000]

Wow, you've done some great work here, always liked DOScab, but now the CD player skin is awesome.  Is there any way to disable numbering of songs? All of my music is sorted by artist, subfolder album with a subfolder of songs, including the song number in the name.  If I use the CD skin now I get "01 01 First Song, 02 02 Second Song....etc.". Just wondering if you can disable numbering.  Thanks, I'm really enjoying playing with the latest beta!

No, unfortunately, at this time you can't disable it.  If your songs were titled 01 - First Song, 02 - Second Song, etc., then SmartCrop would remove the numbers, but if the dash-space isn't there, it doesn't do the crop.  Otherwise, songs like 99 Red Balloons would get cropped.

--Chris

Gotcha...Okay that makes sense.  I like your example song, that was popular when I was in high school. The first version wouldn't have a problem displaying since it was "Neun und Neunzig Luft Balloons"......

[Thenasty]

PM'ed you Chris for a bug I found.

[Chris]

Once I set that and changed FixedDimension = Height from Auto everything worked perfectly. CD covers are nice and square now.

Kind of a shame, though; you'll have a letterbox effect on the sides of the screen.

[Chris]

PM'ed you Chris for a bug I found.

This is more serious than I originally thought...

The bug he reported was that selection 000000 crashed the system  Well, that's not a valid selection anyway, so I wasn't too worried about it.  But now I'm discovering that none of the absolute selections work properly now, and I know they did last night. In addition, relative disc numbers no longer show up.  I'm working on it to figure out what's wrong...

[Chris]

PM'ed you Chris for a bug I found.

This is more serious than I originally thought...

The bug he reported was that selection 000000 crashed the system

[froggerman]

Once I set that and changed FixedDimension = Height from Auto everything worked perfectly. CD covers are nice and square now.

Kind of a shame, though; you'll have a letterbox effect on the sides of the screen.  I'll see if I can whip up a widescreen version of that skin for you...

You are correct, there are black bars on each side. But if I leave it in Auto a lot of the top and bottom are missing. But that is fine for the moment. I am sure you have more important things to work on. I may have to look into a touch screen. The CD skin would be very cool with a touch screen interface.

[froggerman]

Once I set that and changed FixedDimension = Height from Auto everything worked perfectly. CD covers are nice and square now.

Kind of a shame, though; you'll have a letterbox effect on the sides of the screen.  I'll see if I can whip up a widescreen version of that skin for you...

Okay, I built a widescreen version of the skin.  You can find it at http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/jukebox/cd6-1-ws.zip .  UnZip the two files from this ZIP to your skins folder and set your skin to cd6-1-ws.skn.

Wow! You are quick. Thanks Chris.

[froggerman]

I have found something that I didn't expect. I have all of my music in folders by artist. I have the following two folders, Air Supply and Alabama. Air Supply has only one folder Greatest Hits. Alabama has 5 albums, American Pride, Christmas Volume II, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits - Vol. III. If I allow the database update to continue past the end of Alabama I end up with a Various Artist CD with the songs from Air Supply's Greatest Hits combined with Alabama's Greatest Hits. If I stop the database update after Air Supply and before Alabama's Greatest Hits, I get the Air Supply's Greatest Hits CD correctly displayed, including picture.

I would imagine that this is not the correct behaviour. 

Cheers.

[Chris]

Is that combination CD titled Singles?

[chipsdad]

Chris,

Did you ever put any more thought into adding serial LCD support?  Would these work:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4661&item=7513462280&rd=1

As always thanks for your efforts.

Bill

[Chris]

Chris,

Did you ever put any more thought into adding serial LCD support?

[Chris]

Wow, you've done some great work here, always liked DOScab, but now the CD player skin is awesome.

[Johnny]

Chris,

I'm dying to test the new version, but where
do I download the beta 7 (not just the fixed .exe)?

- Johnny

[Chris]

Go to http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/jukebox and click on Download.

--Chris

[Johnny]

Thanx Chris,
I found it. (In the download link it's listed as beta 6)

- Johnny

[Chris]

Thanx Chris,
I found it. (In the download link it's listed as beta 6)

- Johnny

Yet more evidence that 3AM releases are a bad idea. 

[Thenasty]

I have been playing around iwht Wincab/Doscab and I say that I am amazed how the Jukebox program is coming along. Anyway, TIA for all hard work in this Chris.

I do have a couple of questions that had came up during my adventure. I had hundreds of songs/album when I started your program and I have this delimma that i can't figure out.

So I just put this 2 songs for testing and remove everything. This 2 songs are in the same folder (Greatest Hits), both has no album names and yet it displayed into 2 separate albums. I just want those 2 songs to be in on Album (the First one) and i have edited the ID3 tags on them to be similar in all except for the Song Name. The wording "The Big Prize" on the second one, where is it taken that from ? I can't see it on ID3 tag editor. The First One "Greatest hits" I assume it took that from the Folder name.
Also take a look the blank ones, it uses the FIRST ARTIST name, this happened also when I had all my songs/album in there. It uses the First one on the list, is there anyway to just make it BLANK with no Artist/Song/Band name ?

here is my folder/dir tree

e:\Jukebox
e:\jukebox\artist
e:\jukebox\artist\honeymoon suite
e:\jukebox\artist\honeymoon suite\Greatest Hits
e:\jukebox\artist\honeymoon suite\Greatest Hits\  (2 songs, Art.Jpg)
                                                                     

[Chris]

The wording "The Big Prize" on the second one, where is it taken that from ? I can't see it on ID3 tag editor. The First One "Greatest hits" I assume it took that from the Folder name.

Yes, Greatest Hits came from the folder name.  Is it possible that the other song has an ID3 v1 tag?  Perhaps your tag editor is only looking at v2 tags?  Or maybe the other way around?

Also take a look the blank ones, it uses the FIRST ARTIST name, this happened also when I had all my songs/album in there. It uses the First one on the list, is there anyway to just make it BLANK with no Artist/Song/Band name ?

Yeah, this is a bug, I'll have that fixed on the next update...

--Chris

[Thenasty]

I use Tag&Rename 3.1.7 and another program too. Even the Winamp I tried. I also STRIP all the TAGS and still comes up like on my snapshot.

I can send this 2 songs to you and you try it, cuase its driving me nuts.

I just tried this, I rename my Greatest Hits to "The Big Prize" cause thats whats showing on #2, and Now both of the songs are in the #1 with "The Big Prize", now I gonna changed it back to "Greatest Hits" and see what happens.


Ok, I rename it back to "Greatest Hits" and remove the files under DATA and sure enough, its back on 2 Albums. I rename the "Greatest Hits" to "CRAP" and it shows 2 albums, but if I rename the "Greatest Hits or CRAP" to "The Big Prize" and it works the way it should. It looks like, it only wants the Folder name to be "The Big Prize" WTH

[Thenasty]

Now I looked at the jukebox.db

{648257HONE}{Bad Attitude}{Honeymoon Suite}{The Big Prize}{1}{0}{331}{0}{}{0}{1}
{084274HONE}{What Does It Take}{Honeymoon Suite}{Greatest}{0}{0}{254}{0}{}{0}{0}

and I change the "The Big Prize" manually to "Greatest Hits" it works the way it should, but I I delete the DB and start from scratch, it puts back everything like above again. Where in the heck is "The Big Prize" coming from ?

[Thenasty]

Now that I change it manually to "Greatest Hits" it works the way it should, both songs now are under "Greatest Hits".
Now if I change the folder to let say "The Singles"  it still shows "The Greatest Hits" even tho UpdateIndex = True.
Now that the Folder name is "The Singles" and it showing :Greatest Hits" and if I delete the jukebox.db, "The Big Prize" is back. 

[Thenasty]

I can just settle with editing the DB manually but, like I mentioned before, I have lots of songs and seen this problems. Sometimes, I even see the SONG 3 times on the same Album..for example:

000190 Macarena MiX
             Los Del Rio
01" Marcarena"
02 "Marcarena"
03 "Marcarena"


there is only one SONG in that folder 

[Chris]

Go ahead and E-mail me the song that keeps showing The Big Prize.  I don't need both of them.

When you changed the folder name, the album name didn't change to "The Singles" because the dates on the songs didn't change, so it decided they didn't need to be updated.

As far as the triple Macarena: Do you have more than one SongPath set?  If so, do the multiple SongPaths include the same folders?  Is your SongPath a subfolder of the jukebox folder?  Any of these could cause multiple entries.  If you set DebugLevel to 5, delete the database, run the program, and send me your jukebox.ini and jbdebug.log, I could tell you for sure.

Thank you so much for your help!

--Chris

[Thenasty]

I only got one
SongPath1 = \Jukebox\artist



right now, I am only concentrating with this 2 songs...When I put back all the songs, back in and look how it looks again, I'll set the debug=5 and send you the files.


Bad Attitude sent...

[Chris]

I only got one
SongPath1 = \Jukebox\artist

Change it to

SongPath= \Jukebox\artist

That will override the built-in SongPath for the jukebox directory.

[Chris]

Bad Attitude sent...

There are at least two sets of tags in that file... oneg at the beginning and one at the end.  The one at the beginning looks like an ID3 v2 tag with a Title and Artist but no Album.  I haven't identified the end tag yet but it has The Big Prize in its text.  Still looking...

--Chris

[Chris]

Bad Attitude sent...

There are at least two sets of tags in that file... oneg at the beginning and one at the end.