Author Topic: MP3 Jukebox Software (Touchscreen, With mp3+g, Video and WMA Tag Support) (Read 176735 times)

Silver · « **Reply #400 on:** January 17, 2006, 12:41:22 am »

Like the progress....

1604:

Totally blank options in Button Settings/Sort Albums by/Key shortcuts
Album View method seems to use more harddisk thrashing? I could be imagining. Swaps before all pics are loaded....
I only use Metal skin, but it appears bottoms buttons (for searching etc...) are underneath the slider bar in 1024 and 800x600?
Can't get rid of video/kareoke tabs (no option)

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #401 on:** January 17, 2006, 07:51:05 am »

Quote from: Silver on January 17, 2006, 12:41:22 am

Like the progress....

1604:

Totally blank options in Button Settings/Sort Albums by/Key shortcuts
Album View method seems to use more harddisk thrashing? I could be imagining. Swaps before all pics are loaded....
I only use Metal skin, but it appears bottoms buttons (for searching etc...) are underneath the slider bar in 1024 and 800x600?
Can't get rid of video/kareoke tabs (no option)

--Bottom Buttons/Slider Bar: You need to first select either one or the other in the options, under Appearance Settings, you'll see Album Navigation Style, and you need to select one of the two options and save it.

--Video/Kareoke Tabs: Yep that's a bug. Barry, the button settings disappeared.

--Album View Method/HD Thrashing: I noticed the same, but...it definitely is getting faster. I think it's pulling the images from the HD is what it's doing.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #402 on:** January 17, 2006, 08:42:21 am »

Bugs, Bugs and Bugs Bunny

Ok there are a couples of bugs highlighted here and the main one is the missing options screen. This was caused by me adding the place holder for the key settings/configuration screen for my planned keyboard shortcut/operation support.
I will sort it out and this will fix the blank screens in options and you will then be able to see the section to turn off the unwanted tabs.

The slider/navbar setting will be added to the karaoke.def file for the next release so you don't need to pick one and save it unless you want to change from the buttons which will be the default.

As for the slider/navbar going behind the play/pause i can only asume you have switched to 1024 mode as it seems fine at 800x600 i will need to investigate this.

~~The runtime 92 error i don't have a clue and i will also look into this tonight.~~
I know what is causing the play now runtime error that will be fixed tonight as well, sorry for all the bugs in this release. I will not be adding anything new until these are resolved luckily they shouldn't take longer than 30 minutes to fix.

I wasn't going to release anything tonight but in the light of these bug I will fix them and get a new version out with at least these sorted.

Ok what is confusing me is the hard disk thrashing? I am unaware of this being any different to normal. Basically all it does is load up the album covers when you browse and read in the tags for the currently playing song. I must admit i have been tweaking the code more and more for speed so it could be is your swap file going nuts if you don't have much memory as part of the speed increases have wacked up the memory usage again as i am using a fair few arrays to hold all the information. If you are running on a system with very little memory then this could be why your HD is going nuts. Rest assured AFAIK it is not doing anything other than what i have just stated.

Glad to see i am now getting a bit more feedback, it can only help us get to a more stable version quicker. As always i am open to suggestions...

UPDATE:
BUG: Jump to artist isn't centered on page.

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #403 on:** January 17, 2006, 02:05:56 pm »

Quote from: Barcrest on January 17, 2006, 08:42:21 am

Ok what is confusing me is the hard disk thrashing? I am unaware of this being any different to normal. Basically all it does is load up the album covers when you browse and read in the tags for the currently playing song. I must admit i have been tweaking the code more and more for speed so it could be is your swap file going nuts if you don't have much memory as part of the speed increases have wacked up the memory usage again as i am using a fair few arrays to hold all the information. If you are running on a system with very little memory then this could be why your HD is going nuts. Rest assured AFAIK it is not doing anything other than what i have just stated.

I guess thrashing is a bad word. For me at least. I can definitely tell when it's accessing the system, usually to load album art, such as in a page forward type situation. I guess maybe I'm just paying more attention to it?

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #404 on:** January 17, 2006, 06:55:07 pm »

Quote from: NinjaEpisode on January 17, 2006, 02:05:56 pm

Quote from: Barcrest on January 17, 2006, 08:42:21 am
Ok what is confusing me is the hard disk thrashing? I am unaware of this being any different to normal. Basically all it does is load up the album covers when you browse and read in the tags for the currently playing song. I must admit i have been tweaking the code more and more for speed so it could be is your swap file going nuts if you don't have much memory as part of the speed increases have wacked up the memory usage again as i am using a fair few arrays to hold all the information. If you are running on a system with very little memory then this could be why your HD is going nuts. Rest assured AFAIK it is not doing anything other than what i have just stated.

I guess thrashing is a bad word. For me at least. I can definitely tell when it's accessing the system, usually to load album art, such as in a page forward type situation. I guess maybe I'm just paying more attention to it?

YOu guys sounded like i was wrecking your systems.. Anyway her eis the new build, it's late and i have been the pub and had 6 Newcastle Browns. However i am still confident this has fixed your problems and not made any more.. If it has list em, if i missed any list em. I got to go and join the g/f in bed, sorry dudes but i am beat.

DOWNLOAD:
~~http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1610.zip~~
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1611.zip

Blame it on the beer

visit the site for more info and cools skins thanks to ninja episode...

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/

mail me if you have any skins and i will upload em

Bye

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #405 on:** January 17, 2006, 07:58:55 pm »

Quote from: Barcrest on January 17, 2006, 06:55:07 pm

YOu guys sounded like i was wrecking your systems.. Anyway her eis the new build, it's late and i have been the pub and had 6 Newcastle Browns. However i am still confident this has fixed your problems and not made any more.. If it has list em, if i missed any list em. I got to go and join the g/f in bed, sorry dudes but i am beat.

DOWNLOAD:
~~http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1610.zip~~
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1611.zip

Blame it on the beer

visit the site for more info and cools skins thanks to ninja episode...

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/

mail me if you have any skins and i will upload em

Bye

Dang dude, I was supposed to post that!

Now go to bed and pay attn. to that girlfriend for a change. Sheesh.

Anyhow, you guys can now see the skins as they would look on Freebox. Check it out here:

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/skins.htm

As Barry said, if you happen to get ambitious and start creating skins and would like to share them, let him or I know and we'll get them uploaded.

Stay tuned for more support options for Freebox as we push closer to removing that "beta" tag from the software.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #406 on:** January 17, 2006, 08:36:55 pm »

The skin link is:

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/skins.htm

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #407 on:** January 17, 2006, 08:41:27 pm »

thanks...sorry....too many beers myself.

billf · « **Reply #408 on:** January 17, 2006, 09:09:32 pm »

Not sure if this is for Barcrest or Ninja but...FYI

The pictures of the skins, at least for me while using Firefox, do not show up. It works fine in IE. I think Firefox must be a bit more "unforgiving" than IE when it comes to code. I took a look at the html code and it appears you're missing an end tag ( > ) after the code for each of the jpg's. And each of the <a href> tags probably need a closing tag </a> as well. For example:

Current line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"<BR>

New line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"></a><BR>

This may take care of it, I haven't tried it.

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #409 on:** January 18, 2006, 05:16:15 am »

Quote from: billf on January 17, 2006, 09:09:32 pm

Not sure if this is for Barcrest or Ninja but...FYI

The pictures of the skins, at least for me while using Firefox, do not show up. It works fine in IE. I think Firefox must be a bit more "unforgiving" than IE when it comes to code. I took a look at the html code and it appears you're missing an end tag ( > ) after the code for each of the jpg's. And each of the <a href> tags probably need a closing tag </a> as well. For example:

Current line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"<BR>

New line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"></a><BR>

This may take care of it, I haven't tried it.

Fixed. Thanks for being so thorough gang!

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #410 on:** January 18, 2006, 07:22:28 am »

See if anyone can guess where i am heading with this... You have got until tonight cause thats when it will be out.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #411 on:** January 18, 2006, 04:21:30 pm »

Another teaser taken from the new improved WIP skin tool....

mccoy178 · « **Reply #412 on:** January 18, 2006, 05:44:58 pm »

I love the rounded button look.

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #413 on:** January 18, 2006, 06:11:37 pm »

Man, Barcrest....that's going to be awesome!

Silver · « **Reply #414 on:** January 18, 2006, 07:41:18 pm »

Not sure if this is skin/freebox error, but buttons don't fit in Metal Skin in 1024:

Silver · « **Reply #415 on:** January 18, 2006, 07:45:22 pm »

Also, what I get in terms of album pics, is that when I hit forward, instead of hearing some disk activity, and then all the albums on the next page appearing, the pics appear to be drawn 1 at a time, or rather the program does not wait to load all the pics for the next screen. So I'll see say 3 pics updated, disk activity, the next 6, a quick pause, then the last lot. This is all very quick, but very noticeable. I think its a lot better if the screen is not updated until all the pics are ready.

I admit, I'm sure some of the pics loading are probably quite large and some very very small (talking about file size) which may cause the (brief) pauses. Either way, speed is not an issue, it just looks nicer when they are all updated together, like you've turned a page or something. My opinion, anyway....

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #416 on:** January 18, 2006, 09:53:06 pm »

Yes the buttons are a bug, 1024 is still not properly completed.

The drawing of the covers involves me using a buffer and loading them in there, i will look into this.

Oh yeah and here is another image of my work in progress.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #417 on:** January 19, 2006, 05:40:38 am »

Right this is how it is going to look but i have done these 2 screens so far and they are far from finished.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #418 on:** January 19, 2006, 01:59:54 pm »

Excellent.

Space Fractal · « **Reply #419 on:** January 20, 2006, 04:26:17 pm »

Great little page

.

Do you have a plan for some link exchange between me and you?

On little notice:
Do you have a plan for a fixed donate (Like

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #420 on:** January 20, 2006, 06:58:01 pm »

I don't mind a link exchange.. Espically as yours is aimed a totally different market to mine. I will drop you a mail about it. As for the fixed donate that is too much like charging. If people want to give lots or a little or even none it's all cool...

Anyway here is something for all you folks to play with.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1629.zip
And you will want this skin...
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/touchclone.zip

See attached screenshots, this skin is still WIP.

Space Fractal · « **Reply #421 on:** January 20, 2006, 07:54:43 pm »

Mine can been used with a touch screen too, but it just very simple (but you are right, my main market are arcade machines)....

But this is way I really like your software (great design, great usable of Visual Basic, even I really dosen't like that language), and we are both in the same boat and in the same forum (and have also fellow your thread).

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #422 on:** January 21, 2006, 12:17:41 pm »

Just a note to everyone. Barcrest has updated the first post in this thread to show all of the current features that Freebox can do as well as updated with the new link to the new website.

Take a look:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=39432.msg355566#msg355566

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #423 on:** January 21, 2006, 12:24:28 pm »

Hey anoter day another update...

21-01-06
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mccoy178 · « **Reply #424 on:** January 21, 2006, 05:03:09 pm »

Keep'em coming.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #425 on:** January 21, 2006, 05:30:55 pm »

Hey Barry,
Did you get the off center fixed in the now playing?

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #426 on:** January 22, 2006, 01:32:57 am »

Just finished a 12-hour (2-tourney) Hold-'Em tournament hosted here at the house. 24 people in the basement at any given time. It took me about an hour to get people to start using the jukebox. By the end of the night, just now, when we finally wrapped everything up, there were still 76 songs in the queue and the juke ran solid ALL NIGHT LONG!

Needless to say Freebox is a major hit with my friends and family Barry!

Fellas and ladies, I can't recommend this thing enough. Try it out! I had techno-newbies and techno-phones standing there having a blast searching and finding music from their teenage/party years and finding music from all over and they were loading up the queue, fighting over who was moving things up in the queue etc.

I'm sold. Where do I submit my check??

Hehe...

mccoy178 · « **Reply #427 on:** January 22, 2006, 05:43:51 am »

Hey Barcrest, I have some questions about the dual screen. Check your PM.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #428 on:** January 22, 2006, 07:53:15 am »

Good news, i had it running for 5 hours myself as i had finally set ip dual screen in the lounge. I had my neighbour around and lets just say the music videos 10ft wide rocked... The bug i had was the fact that some videos wouldn't play but this is a codec issue as they will play on my dev machine in the juke.

Good news everyone.

Silver · « **Reply #429 on:** January 22, 2006, 10:45:55 am »

bug?/feature:

When I am in Metal skin (12 on show), it looks nice, with the text of artist/album printed on a black strap above/below each pic. (cuts off pic).

Switching to touchclone skin, the pic is now shown in full with nothing cut, with the text on top - making it completely unreadable. Is this part of the skin? Can you bring the black strap back or make a shadow drop for the text to make it readable?

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #430 on:** January 22, 2006, 01:14:13 pm »

Quote from: Silver on January 22, 2006, 10:45:55 am

bug?/feature:

When I am in Metal skin (12 on show), it looks nice, with the text of artist/album printed on a black strap above/below each pic. (cuts off pic).

Switching to touchclone skin, the pic is now shown in full with nothing cut, with the text on top - making it completely unreadable. Is this part of the skin? Can you bring the black strap back or make a shadow drop for the text to make it readable?

This is part of the skin, if you want to turn the strip back on, load up the skin tool and on the main page (Make sure you are editting the touchclone skin) put a tick in show background for the artist names then save the skin (You may want to set the colours back so it has a black bacground and white text). Voila job done.

If you can't do it mail me and i'll send you the skin over fixed up how you want it.

Oh yeah i am currently adding support for icons/images to be used as buttons for the menu bar down the side as well as totally hiding the menu bar. If hidden you can use the ESC key to bring up the options screen at any time.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #431 on:** January 22, 2006, 05:57:17 pm »

Can you make it so the menu on the left only has the three most important features like Search, Top 20, and something else? I think that would be a good feature.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #432 on:** January 22, 2006, 06:08:53 pm »

Quote from: mccoy178 on January 22, 2006, 05:57:17 pm

Can you make it so the menu on the left only has the three most important features like Search, Top 20, and something else? I think that would be a good feature.

If you go into options and button settings you can turn off the others so it is like this with waht you already have?

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #433 on:** January 23, 2006, 06:15:10 am »

What about having a front page with the options on?

Album View
Search
Etc...

Click one and it takes you to that page and that page fills the screen. All back buttons take you back to this front page menu? How does this sound as an alternative to what we have now. This would in theory allow for more skinning options and i could also make that front page menu totally editible view the skin tool? This is a big change to the UI so i just wondered what people thought before i went about changing the internals of the app around.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #434 on:** January 23, 2006, 09:25:46 am »

I like the sound of that a lot.

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #435 on:** January 23, 2006, 05:06:48 pm »

I want to play with the app a little more before I can say one way or the other.

One thing I'd like to see is a quick dropdown to sort by Album/Artist/Genre/Year/Etc... It'd be nice to have that show up in the 'Album' page or whatever. Also a progress bar with a drag-handle would be awesome, for forward/rewind. Or, why not add a small 'arrow' button at the end of the 'Album' button, that would then drop down and allow sorting? I'm thinking of IE's back and forward buttons when browsing, as an example.

Another suggestion is why not have it kick in with a fullscreen visualization after a user-specified amount of time? (or is it supposed to, since I see viz's in the options section)

Also, one weird thing, all my albums are showing up twice?! I've deleted the DB and started again, and my ID3 tags are both v1/v2 synced.

I really like what you've got going here, btw.

mrC

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #436 on:** January 23, 2006, 05:08:01 pm »

Here it is with the menu button image skinning, see screen shot.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1635.zip

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #437 on:** January 24, 2006, 06:09:05 am »

Ok i have found some errors with the new graphical button option.

BUG: Buttons don't load correctly (See image attached).
BUG: Style 7 (Graphical Button) not retained in skintool.

Both of these are a quick fix and i will sort them out as soon as i get home tonight and neither will require a change to the file structure so anything anyone might have worked on will still work just without the errors.

I really need help from somebody willing to put in a bit of time to create a skin, as you can see my graphical skills are lacking and although i can do enough to test the tools out i really need someone to be able to give the juke a polished look by creating that elusive killer skin.

Check back tonight for a quick update to fix the outstanding bugs i have mentioned as well as any others i find during the day.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #438 on:** January 25, 2006, 05:19:53 pm »

Better late than never.

All the button issues are fixed.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1638.zip
Touch Clone Updated.
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/touchclonev2.zip

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #439 on:** January 26, 2006, 08:48:25 pm »

26-01-06
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