Vrockola (was - Re: Jukebox software with coin-input?)

[oznetradio]

Have just discovered http://www.vrockola.com/.
Plays video and is free for up to 999 songs.
Anyone using this?

[Barry Barcrest]

Have just discovered http://www.vrockola.com/.
Plays video and is free for up to 999 songs.
Anyone using this?

I tested this... Does it read tags because it didn't seem to on my system. It also seemed to have a fair bit of lag entering the numbers can this be configured. I also see that you can't use a mouse or touchscreen with this it's keypad entry only.

[mflint]

Look at the front of the forum, test a few (VRockola) looks cool, But try and send them a message they never respond. RE: Lack of support for something that costs $49.95 for a key code. That program sounds like the author of
pc Jukebox. No support and if you loose your key code you get to pay the $49.95 again. You can't even look at the set up guide because it only downloads in Spanish. Freebox is one that is supported very well. I have used it and it works very well and is supported to the fullest in every way, it has tons of options. So I hope this helps. Before I get any wining,No I don't have any thing to do with the promotion of freebox but I like the way it works. I checked the server is out of Glendale California for Vrockola, So more than likely pc jukebox is not the author. pinged 209.132.240.41

[Barry Barcrest]

www.thepcjukebox.com has a new version coming out called TOUCHTRAX. If you pop over to their forum they have 2 forums devoted to it. One for bugs and one for suggestions.

[oznetradio]

Look at the front of the forum, test a few (VRockola) looks cool, But try and send them a message they never respond. RE: Lack of support for something that costs $49.95 for a key code.

Good point.

I haven't really played with the program too much. It does not seem to use tags and can't be configured to a great extent.

Touchtrax sounds interesting... I'll keep an eye on this.

[Barry Barcrest]

Good point.

I haven't really played with the program too much. It does not seem to use tags and can't be configured to a great extent.

Touchtrax sounds interesting... I'll keep an eye on this.

I knew i recognised this username.... Don't know why you are so anti-freebox but anyway there is a beta of Touchtrax. It has about 20% of the features of ThePCJukebox and quite a few bugs mainly screen draw issues and stuff with the covers much like ThePCJukebox had. Also it wouldn't be much use to you as like Freebox it's Touchscreen based or have you purchased a touchscreen now? I seem to remeber you were quite keen on the vapourware jukebox that nipsng was pushing.

[Space Fractal]

hmm, he diddet say he is anti freebox? He just testing other software as well (like all does before choosing the software).

I have seen the screenshot of Touchtrax, and it look really awesome and simple. Hope it much faster than the previous software... Yes it beta, and it of course still have bugs.

The only downside on the new software is how the letter scroll and pageflipping works....

[Barry Barcrest]

hmm, he diddet say he is anti freebox? He just testing other software as well (like all does before choosing the software).

Back up there, i clicked read all posts by this member, he is anti freebox for some reason. However he seems to love every other software going even that vapourware product nipsmng was touting... Rember all that arguement? As for testing other software that's all well and good i myself install every new juke i find, but he has been posting about different juke software for well over a year but the style of posts indicate that he is an avid user of said software. He was first posting about building his juke back in 2004...

Summary Of His Time on BYOAC:
1.He posts asking for a ready made juke control then posts a thanks but no thanks post to virtually every suggestion.
2.After 6 months of trying jukebox pro and not getting it to work and posting how much he loves sk he posts asking if anyone can has had jukebox pro running as he still can't get it to work? I thought he loved SK Juke?
3.Nnipsmg cam along and this guy was all fanboy, unfortunatly as predicited Nipsmg produced nothing of note and his final product he did post shots off looked like a 5 minute Visual Basic Effort. NICE! Strange as earlier he said touchscreens were too expensive..
4.By Feb 2006 he still hasn't picked what software to use and posts a random question about auto launching a juke app in XP.
5.Then he posts in august 2006 still trying to get jukebox pro to work...
6.Then a year later he posts about Virtual Rockolla, then when Mflint tells him it's crap he agrees... If so why post the link?

Nah i don't like the guy he is the type that posts and then disappears only to post the same question months later. He asks for advice but doesn't seem to take it. Sorry but it just rubbed me up the wrong way.

I have seen the screenshot of Touchtrax, and it look really awesome and simple.

You think? Personally i think it's too simple. The graphics look like they were made for a 5 year old, they are very childish and too simplistic. ThePCJukebox had a much nicer interface. Your interface is clean and simple but still looks professional, the new Touchtrax one doesn't

Hope it much faster than the previous software... Yes it beta, and it of course still have bugs.

Screen draws are slower, especially in the search screen where it draws up the keyboard. You can see each button appear as it draws the screen it's that slow.

The only downside on the new software is how the letter scroll and pageflipping works....

Yeah the scroll ends up with letter being way off and scrolling to a letter is very hit and miss.

Not sure what you mean about the page flipping but it does have simular issues with loading the album covers that ThePCJukebox had.

The search is a massive step backwards, it now doesn't do a partial instring search. It just matches up the first letters as you type. From the posts i've read i'm not 100% convincied he will be adding a search method simular to the old one.

[Space Fractal]

Can somebody split this thread, starting from oznetradio into own thread (but do NOT remove it), since I guess this thread is being hijacked about another software, but I do cant see anything wrong about http://www.vrockola.com shown here elsewice (even we like it or not).

Otherwice, thanks for the explain, Barcrest, and also for the posivitive critic about the MultiJuke/Arcade Music Box interface... Yes even with simple design, it can look professionel and I like few colors (the color buttons in MultiJuke can been changed or colorsized with the current skin color, trouch).

If TouchTrax can been skinned, somebody would sooner or later create a better skin for it.

[Barry Barcrest]

If TouchTrax can been skinned, somebody would sooner or later create a better skin for it.

Yes i think this is what the users are hoping, the funny thing is the old interface was the best thing about that software. Guess time will tell.

[oznetradio]

hmm, he diddet say he is anti freebox? He just testing other software as well (like all does before choosing the software).

Back up there, i clicked read all posts by this member, he is anti freebox for some reason. However he seems to love every other software going even that vapourware product nipsmng was touting... Rember all that arguement? As for testing other software that's all well and good i myself install every new juke i find, but he has been posting about different juke software for well over a year but the style of posts indicate that he is an avid user of said software. He was first posting about building his juke back in 2004...

Ouch!!! I've never been "anti-Freebox". I have never made a post for or against your software. How l did you come to this conclusion?? Because I have never mentioned your software before in any of my posts??
What I am guilty of is trying every jukebox software that I can get my hands on. Is that a crime? I use some software for a while, and then see if there is something else available. The reason that I posted about VRockola is that I hadn't come across it before and thought I would share with others in this forum. It may suit someone, but not others.

[Barry Barcrest]

Ok i admit i was alittle harsh, sorry.

[oznetradio]

sorry.

Accepted