Author Topic: MP3 Jukebox Software (Touchscreen, With mp3+g, Video and WMA Tag Support) (Read 176335 times)

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #200 on:** October 07, 2005, 05:49:54 am »

Quote from: Silver on October 06, 2005, 08:04:32 pm

If "low on your priorities" = "ask me in a week or so" thats pretty impressive....!

Having tried loads of jukebox of software I realise its quite hard to have your cake and eat it - that is have nice gui (suitable for touchscreen) that doesn't rely on small text (a la Freebox or WinCab)

Silver · « **Reply #201 on:** October 07, 2005, 10:42:23 am »

Well I'm enjoying all the progress your making... looking forward to future versions!

PCjukebox - apart from costing $$$, I've tried it and found it really rather slow - far too much for me. Not tried for a while though...

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #202 on:** October 07, 2005, 01:51:26 pm »

Quote from: Silver on October 07, 2005, 10:42:23 am

Well I'm enjoying all the progress your making... looking forward to future versions!

PCjukebox - apart from costing $$$, I've tried it and found it really rather slow - far too much for me. Not tried for a while though...

To be honest it was the cost increase and the sluggish behaviour that got me to code mine in the first place... Lets see how we get on, should have a release on sunday.

syren · « **Reply #203 on:** October 07, 2005, 03:43:38 pm »

System Specs: P3 766mhz with 188mb of ram and a 40gb database of music. I have gone through all of the albums and retagged each file as well as removed the covers from the files that had them embedded. After doing this the database loads extremely fast with no errors found.

Since upgrading to the latest version I have experienced some issues with the software.
1. When in Free Mode - after running for an hour or so I notice that the icon in the center of the top of the screen that says "Free Play" "Play Next"... the text is not refreshing and writing over the top of itself. The jukebox continues to play as it should.. the text is just unreadable.

2. After running the system for approx 25 min I went into the options menu and selected the "Hide Mouse" option. The mouse icon went away and I used the touchscreen to save settings and return to album view. When the software returned to album view all of the cd covers were blank. I don't mean the covers were not found... there is nothing at all where the covers should be. All of my folders have the cd cover named Cover.jpg in the corresponding folder. I have been able to duplicate this error on several occasions.

Just giving you the heads up!

Thanks again for making this program. I will continue to use it to run my platform and will gladly keep posting feedback / glitches in here.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #204 on:** October 11, 2005, 11:50:30 am »

Quote from: syren on October 07, 2005, 03:43:38 pm

System Specs: P3 766mhz with 188mb of ram and a 40gb database of music.

karli · « **Reply #205 on:** October 11, 2005, 02:42:14 pm »

Hello Barry,

what for an nice Software you are create!

I like it. Found you by google! I download for around one week the V 1.4.1 and install the MP3 Jukebox on my old Laptop Compaq Armada. The laptop have only an 233 MHz processor, 141 MB RAM und an 60 GB harddisk and an nice extern IBM touchscreen. I use Windows 2000.
I think and hope the old 233 Mhz Armada laptop is for playing MP3 music fast enough.
One think - if you can reduce the time for change in the Album view from Side to Side,
that take around 10 seconds on my old laptop...

Could be, the computer is to old...but it works so fine for playing music for hours and hours!
If you need help...if you like, I can offer you the following. I can translate the text, you are using on the screen into an german text version, and you can offer by the installation an german and an english version. What you are think about ?

Your MP3 Jukebox worke every evening in my livingroom. Buts a lot of work to make good
MP3s from all the CDs

Many Thanks for your fine work!
Wish you a nice day!

Kindly Regards

Karli

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #206 on:** October 11, 2005, 07:19:35 pm »

Quote from: karli on October 11, 2005, 02:42:14 pm

Hello Barry,

what for an nice Software you are create!

Silver · « **Reply #207 on:** October 11, 2005, 08:01:41 pm »

I sympathise with your ID3V2 problems... I was playing around a while ago with database creation for another project, and used my mp3's as a testbed....

In the end I ended up using a (free) 3rd party api called Fmod.

It may well be not the route you want to go, but its quite extensive: Its a totally cross-platform audio engine that supports a very wide range of audio files, very full featured, and completely free to non-commericial use. It also has explicit support (and examples) for VB.

I only really used it for reading in tags (basically it provides you with a bunch of classes, and you just load up a file into one of its audio streams and then you can pull all the tag information you want via the classes without having to deal with the file yourself.) If I recall you could also turn off its pre-buffering to have quick access to the file so you can read the tags quickly... Of course, no idea if its as quick as reading tags as your current setup, and I'm sure there are laods of other options out there...

http://www.fmod.org/

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #208 on:** October 11, 2005, 08:40:05 pm »

Barcrest...

As usual, each release continues to amaze me.

A couple things:

1.) The Config program is much improved. This time it didn't freeze on me after 29000 songs. The thing actually continued to do it's business AND display that it was doing it's business. Usually, I lose the display part. A thought occured to me though while I was watching it work. BTW, 20 minutes for that many songs. Works for me! Anywho, on to my thought: How difficult would it be to add an option to exclude certain directories. For example, I have several holiday albums that I would only want to include during the holiday months, but I don't want to separate them and move them from their current location for fear that I'll forget about them. I've seen in other apps the ability to specify directories that you want to exclude from scanning.

2.) The jump to artist feature is much improved, but I noticed a downside in its current state, something that you are probably working on, but I'll mention it anyway. If I have more than 8 albums beginning with any specific letter, I can't jump to them. Instead, in it's current state, I'm forced to use the forward/back buttons in the album view to get to them. How bout a scroll bar in that jump to artist window to allow me to see more than just 8 albums? I also liked the option in the previous jump to artist rendition that allowed me to jump to a letter and browse. Is that still available?

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #209 on:** October 12, 2005, 02:59:30 am »

Quote from: Silver on October 11, 2005, 08:01:41 pm

I sympathise with your ID3V2 problems... I was playing around a while ago with database creation for another project, and used my mp3's as a testbed....

In the end I ended up using a (free) 3rd party api called Fmod.

It may well be not the route you want to go, but its quite extensive: Its a totally cross-platform audio engine that supports a very wide range of audio files, very full featured, and completely free to non-commericial use. It also has explicit support (and examples) for VB.

I only really used it for reading in tags (basically it provides you with a bunch of classes, and you just load up a file into one of its audio streams and then you can pull all the tag information you want via the classes without having to deal with the file yourself.) If I recall you could also turn off its pre-buffering to have quick access to the file so you can read the tags quickly... Of course, no idea if its as quick as reading tags as your current setup, and I'm sure there are laods of other options out there...

http://www.fmod.org/

Sounds good on paper, i will have a look when i get home tonight and see what i can achieve with it. Hopefully it will be better than what we have running now.

Quote from: NinjaEpisode on October 11, 2005, 08:40:05 pm

Barcrest...

As usual, each release continues to amaze me.

A couple things:

1.) The Config program is much improved. This time it didn't freeze on me after 29000 songs. The thing actually continued to do it's business AND display that it was doing it's business. Usually, I lose the display part. A thought occured to me though while I was watching it work. BTW, 20 minutes for that many songs. Works for me! Anywho, on to my thought: How difficult would it be to add an option to exclude certain directories. For example, I have several holiday albums that I would only want to include during the holiday months, but I don't want to separate them and move them from their current location for fear that I'll forget about them. I've seen in other apps the ability to specify directories that you want to exclude from scanning.

Well the only workable way i can think of doing this, is to offer the removal of albums from the database once it has been created. You may have noticed the config.exe now loads up the database when it is run if a database is found, this is to allow the update database feature to add directories on other drives. However it will also allow me to display a list box of all the albums loaded from that database, from here coupled with a removed album button you should be able to do what you want. I will look at adding this tonight.

Quote from: NinjaEpisode on October 11, 2005, 08:40:05 pm

2.) The jump to artist feature is much improved, but I noticed a downside in its current state, something that you are probably working on, but I'll mention it anyway. If I have more than 8 albums beginning with any specific letter, I can't jump to them. Instead, in it's current state, I'm forced to use the forward/back buttons in the album view to get to them. How bout a scroll bar in that jump to artist window to allow me to see more than just 8 albums? I also liked the option in the previous jump to artist rendition that allowed me to jump to a letter and browse. Is that still available?

The next/previous buttons are for this purpose instead of a scroll bar which are fiddly to use on a touchscreen. The previous behaviour of the jump to artist is still in there in code at least, i can add this back in if people prefer this... I will try and create a workable hybrid tonight, sort of best of both worlds and see what you think of that.

WIP
Improved Jump To Album/Artist Screen
Add option to remove albums in CONFIG.EXE

Post up a release on here, Should be tonight but not too late hopefully

Look at http://www.fmod.org/ to see if this fixes tagging issues

Post up another release using http://www.fmod.org/ for testing, should be before the weekend.

Look at adding Various tag based sorting options for music as per silvers request.

Silver · « **Reply #210 on:** October 12, 2005, 05:19:01 am »

Sounds good - I should point out I mentioned fmod simply as I've come across it before. There may well be superior tag reading scripts/api's available I have no idea. (Fmods claims of greatness tend to revolve around its solve-all approach in terms of playing lots of music types.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #211 on:** October 12, 2005, 06:02:38 am »

Quote from: Silver on October 12, 2005, 05:19:01 am

Sounds good - I should point out I mentioned fmod simply as I've come across it before. There may well be superior tag reading scripts/api's available I have no idea. (Fmods claims of greatness tend to revolve around its solve-all approach in terms of playing lots of music types.

Yeah that's cool... The only ones i have found tend to be pay for OCX files or the free ones like PANTHER.OCX don't offer any better support for tags than what we are already using. I would have liked to use the OCX that www.thepcjukebox.com uses but that costs money and i can't afford to pay for things to use in a project i am making no money off. I am seeting up my DEV laptop here at work as i type this. I don't have the latest source code with me but what i have is new enough to test out FMOD and anything else i find which will cut down on the amount of time i need to spend on it tonight.

Silver · « **Reply #212 on:** October 12, 2005, 06:54:09 am »

Hmmm, you could also take a look at id3lib:

http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/

which is a project solely aimed at id3v1 and v2 tag reading/processing. Theres a webpage here of someone detailing how to impliment it into vb (no ocx required):

http://members.tripod.com/thefrogprince/

There is also a vb6 wrapper to make it easier to use:

http://www.codeproject.com/audio/mp3fileinfo.asp

Might be more handy/specific/optimised than fmod...

Theres also some pure vb code for up to id3v2.2 tags here - I have no info on this:

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/vbMedia/Audio/Reading_and_Writing_MP3_ID3v1_and_v2_Tags/article.asp

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #213 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:22:02 am »

I have been testing www.audiogenie.de out, well the example code that is bundled with it and that seems to work ok. I will work on it tonight and hopefully have something to show later today.

The only problem is that it shows a small splash screen on loading unless it is registered but i don't see this as a real problem, also i was trying to reduce the number of external libaries but needs must.

Silver · « **Reply #214 on:** October 12, 2005, 10:00:16 pm »

That looks pretty handy. I don't think a 2 sec pop up is an issue when its just on the database generation..... I'm sure implimenting it won't be too hard. The hard bit is using all that data the right way...

Oh, and make sure you get these the right way round:

myTrack = AudioGenie.ID3V2Track
AudioGenie.ID3V2Track = myTrack

I made a mistake when I was playing with fmod and helpfully set the Track title to a few of mp3's to some VB string. Wooops.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #215 on:** October 13, 2005, 03:18:39 am »

Quote from: Silver on October 12, 2005, 10:00:16 pm

That looks pretty handy. I don't think a 2 sec pop up is an issue when its just on the database generation..... I'm sure implimenting it won't be too hard. The hard bit is using all that data the right way...

Oh, and make sure you get these the right way round:

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #216 on:** October 13, 2005, 08:41:21 am »

Quote from: Barcrest on October 13, 2005, 03:18:39 am

ANOTHER NEW FEATURE (In Development)
I was thinking of adding holiday support...

Basically adational databses and skin settings that will come into effect on specified dates.

E.G. St Patricks day
It switches to a specified ST Patricks day skin and loads the additional ST Patricks day database.

Obviously this will involve a litle bit of work but should enable you to have holiday databases and skin settings for any holidays you specify in a file. Christmas, Haloween, Thanks Giving whatever you can think of....

This sounds interesting. I'd be curious to see how this works out.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #217 on:** October 13, 2005, 06:24:09 pm »

Sorry i have been the pub again LOL... I Love beer to much. Still i have fixed up the jump to artist code like i said. I hope to make a new release very soon...

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #218 on:** October 17, 2005, 09:50:40 am »

Progress has been slow, i think i was too ambitious with all the changes i want to get in and i feel a little swamped. Anyway i have managed to fix up the following;

Queue loading and saving. Nobody had actually reported this as not working but it wasn't until now. It would save ok but not load back in correctly, this is now fixed.

Next Song Display. I am not sure if this was even working at all but it should be correct now. I noticed it was displaying the song that was playing?

Skintool Update. Added code to load new back drop images, you can't save changes yet though as there is still work needed.

Config Update. Not quite what i had promised yet;
It is now quicker if you update the audio database, before it would recheck the existing files again before the updated files. Now it only scans the updated files (The new directory) making it a lot quicker.

Also you can not longer attempt to update the Karaoke or Video databases, this would have mixed them with the audio database in the last release. This time the update button is not shown if these are selected. The update feature will be added to these soon.

Just thought i would give you a brief update, so you know the project is still alive.

DOWNLOAD HERE
http://rapidshare.de/files/6396789/setup1410.zip.html

Just wasted a few hours changing the main app over to use the database for the track lists rather than re-checking the mp3 tags. Why? Well i had just got it working and went to save and the thing has locked up and crashed. To be honest i am not sure it was any quicker....

LOL ok it only took me 30 minutes to re-create it and it's back in now. I am still testing it but it appears to work. This should fix the lag people were getting when going into the track listing from the album view but like i said i am not 100% convinced it will be quicker. This code is not in this release but will be in the next one.

In my testing i put it up against ThePCJukebox and FREEBOX was quicker on both methods, i will need feedback on this when i release it so we can decide what method works best in terms of speed.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #219 on:** October 20, 2005, 09:41:22 am »

Hmmm 8 downloads and no feedback, did it work? Let me know.

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #220 on:** October 20, 2005, 10:00:08 am »

Can't check it til tonight. I'll let you know.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #221 on:** October 20, 2005, 11:16:17 am »

Cheers buddy, it's just moving to the more pure database method is a big step and if it doesn't work correctly or fast enough then i can switch back. However if it is all working as i hope i can then push on with a whole host of new fancy stuff that i have mentioned previously in the thred. I am assuming at the moment that no news is good news but if i can get feedback on it that would be great.

I have had to load out my development laptop here at work, however next week i will have a load of development time so i should be able to set another machine up and get loads of stuff done. After using SK jukebox it has motivated me to add a few more graphical nicities to the program and finally sort out some decent skinning options. I am looking at releasing some seperate skins as well in the hope it will encourage a few more people to creat some.

One other thing, does everyone agree that the help button is pants? I don't like it and to be honest i want to remove it and replace it with a browse by name function simular to ThePCJukebox, where you get a list of all the albums or artists as this would help people on lower spec machines and would provide a quicker way to browse as it's not loading 6 or 12 covers each page. If people agree i will rip out the HELP and put this in place.. The reason the help has to go is i don't think i can really fit another button down that side. The only other thing i could get rid of is the BROWSE MODE. I think this has had it's day now and maybe could be taken out at least as a button anyway and be moved into the options screen.

I Look forward to hearing from you guys, as always suggestions and feedback welcome... Actually in this case required

james77 · « **Reply #222 on:** October 20, 2005, 11:31:49 am »

Barcrest,
for some feedback, I am getting a few errors I have not gotten before. While trying to update the database, I get a run-time error '58' file already exists. If I try to generate the database, I get a run-time error run-time error '380' invalid property value.
any thoughts on those?

thanks,
James

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #223 on:** October 20, 2005, 01:15:39 pm »

Just got home, just testing now...

james77 · « **Reply #224 on:** October 20, 2005, 04:34:40 pm »

Barcrest,
That was quick, thanks.
I am getting another error now. The program is only showing 1 album cover, but when I cycle through the name changes in the top right corner, but the art does not ( all art displayed is same artist).

Also, where does the program get the name that is displayed above and below the album art? Right now it is coming up with some weird info.

Oh, one more thing. If I hide all the buttons under the options, how do I get back into the options? I had to reinstall the program, but its probably something that I just overlooked.

Regards,
James

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #225 on:** October 20, 2005, 08:04:13 pm »

Quote from: james77 on October 20, 2005, 04:34:40 pm

Barcrest,
That was quick, thanks.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #226 on:** October 21, 2005, 12:50:04 pm »

I have started work on ability to design cover files, these are the files used to position the covers and labels in album view. I am adding this to the skin creator so you can have any number of covers up to 12 displayed on the screen and also choose the option if you want track listings displayed by the side of them like in SK Jukebox... Once this is complete it will allow you quite a bit of customisation on the album view screen. It will also mean that some options will be removed from within the jukebox. Basically the options to turn frames on/off and options to display the album and artist name in the album view. I want this all to be defined in the cover.ini file... Also the options of 6 or 12 covers will be removed and replaced with a drop down like the skin chooser showing all the cover files you have. Click one and it will be loaded.

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #227 on:** October 21, 2005, 01:07:35 pm »

Ok, I'm really confused by what you just said. Does this mean we'll see the album art, but not artist and album name? Please tell me no on this.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #228 on:** October 23, 2005, 04:58:23 am »

Quote from: NinjaEpisode on October 21, 2005, 01:07:35 pm

Ok, I'm really confused by what you just said.

spocktwin · « **Reply #229 on:** October 23, 2005, 08:21:42 pm »

ok poor excuse for the 100th post but I have downloaded your software and am taking on the challenge to make as small as possible . Well as small as will accomodate a 15" lcd
thanks for the software, just put it on the test bed and everything was fine but for some reason it shuts down my audio after one song.....conflict some where.

karli · « **Reply #230 on:** October 24, 2005, 02:15:33 am »

Hi Barry,

I`ve download the new version and it works very nice on my low end laptop.
The problems with the ID tags is not solved...

I try to buy now an used Scovery 260 Mini PC from Siemens
with an 600 Mhz Pentium III an 256 MB Ram, so in future
I will not have the problem for taking a lot of time
for change the sides to see the album view faster then before, I hope so.

Please, can you make bigger buttons in the Search scrolling field?

If I use my touchscreen, I have some problem to find the right
position for Up and Down - the original window button you are use here,
are to small.

For my opinion, you can delete the help function, and use the button for
other nice new functions. I don`t use these button anytime.

Regards,

karli

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #231 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:39:49 am »

Quote from: karli on October 24, 2005, 02:15:33 am

Hi Barry,

I`ve download the new version and it works very nice on my low end laptop.
The problems with the ID tags is not solved...

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #232 on:** October 27, 2005, 08:22:44 am »

Ok another new release. This one updates the config exe and fixes the bugs mentioned previously...

27-10-05
What

str1der · « **Reply #233 on:** October 27, 2005, 11:11:30 am »

Hey Bar,
Sorry I haven't had time to provide much feedback. Been pretty busy lately. I wanted to mention a feature I posted before that I really think would be cool. You should have a shuffle play where you can add say up to five albums and play randomly from just those 5. Think of it as carosel CD player. I think this feature is a lot better than playing random from your entire collection. This was on a program I used to use called Apejukebox it it was probably the best feature they had.

Also is there another place to download your software. Rapidshare gets blocked by a lot of surf control type software so I can't download it here at work to check out the skinning tools.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #234 on:** October 27, 2005, 01:19:56 pm »

Quote from: str1der on October 27, 2005, 11:11:30 am

Hey Bar,

str1der · « **Reply #235 on:** October 27, 2005, 02:23:20 pm »

Cool. That's great. When you have a huge collection that's all over the map you don't want to hit random and have Christmas songs starting to play.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #236 on:** October 27, 2005, 02:34:57 pm »

I have also just fixed a bug when you clicked a song to play now from a search the screeen went blank.. might make another release tonight.

str1der · « **Reply #237 on:** October 27, 2005, 03:09:19 pm »

One other thing you might want to cosider is changing the name of your jump to artist feature. It's really a jump to letter feature. If it was a jump to artist feature you should be able to find a group like styx by hitting S then T to narrow in but if you do that first it jumps to the first artist starting with S then the first artist starting with T

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #238 on:** October 27, 2005, 08:31:43 pm »

Quote from: str1der on October 27, 2005, 03:09:19 pm

One other thing you might want to cosider is changing the name of your jump to artist feature. It's really a jump to letter feature. If it was a jump to artist feature you should be able to find a group like styx by hitting S then T to narrow in but if you do that first it jumps to the first artist starting with S then the first artist starting with T

Fair enough man, i will change the label. I have been the pub tonight so no release until over the weekend. But at least there will be some new stuff in to play with. Hope everyone is enjoying the new featues i will add as many requests as i can if you have asked me to add something and i forgot then just remind me and i will try and get it in like str!der did with his carasoell features.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #239 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:05:52 pm »

Here it is with the carosel function, i like it man it adds great functionality to the program...

Have fun i doubt i will put another release out over the weekend unless i get any feedback on a major bug that needs fixing.

DOWNLOAD:
http://rapidshare.de/files/6882906/setup1418.zip.html

NOTE:
When it loads the carosel list back in you have to click to skip to next track to start the random play working? Or play a track first. I will fix this but i didn't think it was major enough to prevent a release. Also this only affects the carosel random play and not normal random play.


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