i want a skin that looks like virtual music jukebox or party time jukebox. i like the fact that you can see multiple albums at the same time as i have over 250 cd's to incorporate in the juke and then to see the songs in the album
Dont all jukebox software show you the album covers and then the associated songs? Perhaps you mean you would like to select an album cover and see the list of songs displayed at the same time together? I was looking at using Virtual Music Jukebox a long time ago but did not like the fact you could only see 4 album covers at one time. I have about 2000 albums so see only 4 at a time was not nice. This was one of the many reasons I decided to code my own software.
BUT i also have a lot of single songs...were are they being displayed?
Well, you could treat all of your single songs as one album called "Singles" or something like that? This is what I do for all the Christmas songs I have ..... I just place them in an album folder called "Christmas Songs"
OR
You can also place each singles song into their own artist/album directories appropriately. Then you would have some more albums loaded into your jukebox which might only have a couple of songs or so in it .... no bi deal. I do that a lot so my songs are probably categorized so the user can find them by searching for artist or album name. If you throw them all in a "Singles" album (as stated above) then the jukebox user may not know to look in the "Singles" album to find songs.
I guess you just do what works for you .....
Then how do i bring in the cd covers into the FE...do i d/l it from other sites or do i scan my cover or is it incorporated in the software?
I think some software might be smart enough to go out and find album art for you. My software does not do this. I prefer not to have my software go out onto the internet to get stuff. Anyway, I went to the following sites and downloaded album covers for everything I needed (I did not scan anything):
www.amazon.comwww.walmart.comThen how does the singles show up?
If you do what I stated above then you would simply reload the jukebox software so it can find all the new album stuff which exists.
Then i also want the radio...i only want to tune in at 1 channel. i presently have a link on my desktop to will automatically start a radio channel at just on click...so if this is presently not on any FE then how hard would be to incorporate an extra button on the skin that is link to a short cut that would start the internet and play that channel?
Then will talk about video next time...
Probably not that hard to offer a button which will execute a mapped command, however, there are a lot of code changes required when you add one button. The skin layout editor needs to change, the skin logic needs to incorporate the new button, code logic has to be inserted to handle the button press, key mappings have to be enhanced to allow the user to map a key to this new button, navigation through the software with a joystick needs to incorporate this new button existing, help documents need to be updated, and other stuff ...... Turns out to be a lot of effort.
Someone might put this in for you, but I prefer to keep my jukebox acting like a real jukebox. I personally am not interested in listening to radio when I have a jukebox full of songs. It seems a bit odd to want your jukebox to play a radio .....
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