UncleT's Jukebox Issues

[Encryptor]

UncleT,

I got the music to show up with the info you provided in your last message to me.

Now how do I get the album covers to show up? Do they have to be named exactly as the folder name or do they have to be somewhere else?

I named one the same as the folder but it didn't show up. I turned Display Album Covers All The Time on in the options. Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks for the help.

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[Space Fractal]

I guess UncleT use the same system like Windows Media Player and most Jukebox software do (correct me, UncleT, if I'm wrong):

Try to rename the coverart to folder.jpg in each album folder.

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I guess UncleT use the same system like Windows Media Player and most Jukebox software do (correct me, UncleT, if I'm wrong):

Try to rename the coverart to folder.jpg in each album folder.

Thanks. I renamed the pic but it still didn't pop up so I tried hitting the update library button and they all popped up. Thanks for the help.

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[unclet]

Sorry, I just saw this post now .......  glad that you got it working.   I think the Help page within my software would explain all of this ...... but if I am around I will be glad to help you.   Again, glad you got it working.

(EDIT)
You need to update the music library when new albums and album art are added.  You do NOT need to update the library when new song files are added to existing albums since my software does not store all the song filenames in the database.

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unclet,

I'm trying to figure out why some albums are not showing up. I have a couple of questions.

1. When I scroll through the sub letters (such as F1, F2, F3 .....etc) it should show the next set of albums correct?

2. Is there a limit to how many albums there can be under one artist?

The reason I ask this is that I have an artist that has been around for a long time and has 42 albums under their name. When I hit the button for F1, F2, F3 the albums don't change.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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[unclet]

1. When I scroll through the sub letters (such as F1, F2, F3 .....etc) it should show the next set of albums correct?

Nope .... setting the album sub letters simply indicates that you should jump to the albums starting with the one (or two) letters you selected.   If there are no albums loaded which start with the one (or two) letters selected then no new set of albums will be displayed.   Basically, if you set the letter scroll bars to have "F" and "1" as the two letters and you do not have any albums starting with "F1xxx" then nothing will happen.  The albums art only change when you actually have an album starting with the first two letters you selected.   Of course, once you select "F", then the albums which start with "F" should be displayed (assuming you have some albums starting with "F").  Then if you select "A" as the second letter then you will be taken to the albums which start with "FA".  Hope this makes sense.

2. Is there a limit to how many albums there can be under one artist?

Should not be a limit .... the albums should all show up as long as they are stored in the appropriate directory structure.

The reason I ask this is that I have an artist that has been around for a long time and has 42 albums under their name. When I hit the button for F1, F2, F3 the albums don't change.

I am a little confused by this statement.  Are you hitting the "F1" key on your keyboard or are you entering "F" for the first album search letter and "1" for the second album search letter?

If you are hitting the "F1" key on your keyboard, then the default Key Mapping for the F1 key is to cycle through the Media/Album/Search tab windows.   I doubt you are doing this since you would notice this occurring.

Now if you are entering the "F" and then the "1" as the two album search letters then nothing will happen if you do not have an album starting with "F1xxxx" as mentioned above.

** If you have an album starting with "F1xxxx" and you select "F" and "1" via the album search letter scroll bars and that album is not displayed then there is a problem with the software.   Please indicate whether this is occurring.

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I am a little confused by this statement.  Are you hitting the "F1" key on your keyboard or are you entering "F" for the first album search letter and "1" for the second album search letter?

If you are hitting the "F1" key on your keyboard, then the default Key Mapping for the F1 key is to cycle through the Media/Album/Search tab windows.   I doubt you are doing this since you would notice this occurring.

Now if you are entering the "F" and then the "1" as the two album search letters then nothing will happen if you do not have an album starting with "F1xxxx" as mentioned above.

** If you have an album starting with "F1xxxx" and you select "F" and "1" via the album search letter scroll bars and that album is not displayed then there is a problem with the software.   Please indicate whether this is occurring.

Ok. At the bottom of the jukebox screen there are 2 sliders. The one on the left goes through the alphabet one letter for each time you click it. Now to the right of that is another slider that changes whatever letter you are on to F0, F1, F2 or G0, G1, G2 and so on.

I assumed that was to go to the next page of whatever letter you were on.

If not what does that slider do?

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[unclet]

The album art can be displayed in alphabetical order by artist or by album name.   Lets say your album art is displayed by artist.......

Those two sliders are a way to "jump" to certain artist albums in your loaded library.   The slider on the left allows you to select the first character to jump to.  Lets say you set that slider to "M", then this means to "jump" to all the artists starting with "M".   Now, if you have 200 artists starting with "M", then jumping to the beginning of the "M" list is nice but not really that nice since you would still need to flip multiple pages to get to the middle of the "M" artists.    So if you wanted to get to "Motley Crue" albums you would need to flip multiple pages to get to the artists starting with "MO".  As a result, the second slider (the one of the right) allows you to select a second artist character to "jump" to.   So if you set the second slider to be "O", then you will "jump" to all artists starting with the two characters "MO".
 
Example .....lets say you have the following artists:

Maroon 5
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Hamlisch
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Jane Girls
Mary Wells
Matchbox 20
Mathew Wilder
Mavericks, The
Maxi Priest
Maxine Nightingale
MC. Hammer
McCoys
Meat Loaf
Men At Work
Men Without Hats
Meredith Brooks
Merle Haggard
Merrilee Rush
Metallica
Michael Bolton
Michael Buble
Michael Damian
Michael Jackson
Michael Johnson
Michael Martin Murphy
Michael McDonald
Michael Sembello
Michelle Branch
Mick Jagger
Midnight Oil
Mike and The Mechanics
Mike Pender
Mike Post
Milli Vanilli
Mindy Smith
Minnie Riperton
Miracles, The
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Mr Mister
Mr. Big
Mtume
Mungo Jerry
Murray Head
Music Explosion
Musical Youth

If you set the left slider to "M" then the album art displayed will start with all the albums for your first "M" artist .... which is "Maroon 5" albums.   Now, lets say you really were trying to get to the "Motorhead" albums and do not really want to start paging through the album art until you get to the artists which start with "MO".   You can instead set the second slider (the one on the right) to be "O", meaning your "seek" characters are now "MO".    This will jump you to all the albums from the artists starting with "MO".   This will result in all the albums from artists starting with "MO" being displayed.    Basically, you should see "Motley Crue" albums and "Motorhead" albums being displayed. 

Hope this made sense.

In a nutshell ..... the slider on the left sets the "first seek character" and the slider on the right sets the "second seek character".   They allow you to jump to certain sections of your loaded library to help minimize the number of page flipping which must occur to get to a certain section of your library.

[Encryptor]

Ok I understand. Thanks for the explanation.

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[Arcade Freak]

hi uncle T,

i have a very basic question. i will start my pc for my juke box soon and i want to know what would be the first step...
1-create the file directory as explained in a different thread
2-then load your app
3-then load all my CDs

basically does it matter the order of loading your app and ripping all the CDs

as when loading the cd's will your app automatically create a proper directory format.

cheers
claude

[unclet]

No, my application does not create a directory structure at all.  I purposely try to never move, edit or access the user's song files at all since I would feel horrible if anything happened to their song collection.  As a result, you will need to configure your own directory structure and then allow my software to load your song library from that directory structure.

You can install my software and start it up, but you will then need to go into the Options Page/Music Directory menu to load the library.  If your library is not in the correct format then the nothing will be loaded, thus you will not be able to play any music.

I would recommend spending some time creating the proper directory structure first and optionally including any album art and/or lyric files you want as well.  Then start my application up and loading the library.

You can always load about 10 albums only for testing and see how it works.  Once you know your directory structure is correct (ie: all the 10 albums are loaded and can be played) then you can simply add the rest of your albums using the same type directory structure and then "reload" the complete library again from within my application.

Hope this helps.

[Arcade Freak]

ok..is there a software that you recommend that will rip the cd to a proper format (that your juke box will recognonize) and keep the song names so then i can place them in the proper directory.

[unclet]

I use WMP to rip my CDs

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UncleT,

Is there a setting or a way that your jukebox program will always start on the Album screen instead of the Media screen?

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[unclet]

Yes, in the Options/Misc(Page3)/At StartUp options there is an indication which you can check to indicate the Albums page should be displayed at startup.

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Outstanding! Thank you!

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unclet,

Can your jukebox program play cd's? I was thinking of putting a cdrom in my jukebox and was wondering about this. As an example if someone brings a cd to my house and wants to play it in the jukebox.


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[loadman]

unclet,

Can your jukebox program play cd's? I was thinking of putting a cdrom in my jukebox and was wondering about this. As an example if someone brings a cd to my house and wants to play it in the jukebox.


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I don't think so.

I think you would be better off converting them on another computer and send them to you r jukebox.

Mine is on a wireless network.

Playing CD's is a bit restirictive and it takes not time at all to extract to MP3's

[unclet]

No my application does not allow this.   Inserting a CD and playing it really has nothing to do with a "jukebox" in my opinion since the user must then have access to a CDRom drive attached to the computer.   I would recommend ripping the CD (ie: with WMP) and storing the songs appropriately so my jukebox application load the songs into it.   Then the user can select each song (or whole album) via the nice jukebox interface