jukebox software option for keyboard

[panama1974]

 

   
jukebox software programmers are devoted to touch screen, there is some great software but just working on a touch screen, in latin america there are no resources to buy touch screen, and we are tied with virtual music jukebox option to have keyboard, is freebox v4 very good but this is only touch screen.

    

[Space Fractal]

I guess you could use a Windows Media Center, or a webbased jukebox software which have a nice keyboard search features. In my own software keyboard is still missing as option for the search screen (but can been used by arrowskeys and such).

Otherwise why not use a trackball or a mouse and "emulate" a touchscreen. Touchscreen is really a imprecision mouse with only using left button? Most software also have the possible to enable the mouse pointer (otherwise a request to Freebox about it), so a mouse can been used and let use a keyboard option for the search. Otherwise you can request to Barcrest (Author behind Freebox) both these features for optimal use. I think this would been a nice addition for MultiFE as well (keyboard search is missing).

There also exists various software that use buttons, keyboard and/or joystick as alternative. Check these out in the wiki (see sticky link about software).

[panama1974]

 

 hello sir Space Fractal , freebox works with the mouse but I used to use the jukebox in a bar on a commercial basis, would serve as a mouse for personal use in my house, by all means send an email to Mr Barcrest to see if changes to freebox optional keyboard, thank you.

[Space Fractal]

the main problem is Freebox is not designed to use with keyboard at all (other it have some shortcuts to various features, but is never meant to been use with keyboard only, but more function like a remote controller), but is mostly mouse driving software. A mouse is also cheap to replacement, if it got broken and you doesn't not need to have a good mouse, just it works.

You can't exit in freebox and most other "party" mode software with the mouse only, but costumers can normally easily breakout and exit with a full keyboard and close down Freebox (and other software as well), if you are not aware to hide these system keyboard keys, so hence I can't really re-commered keyboard, due with this problem.

That really why none at BYOAC is really want to use a keyboard with a jukebox application (ETC it why BYOAC got its name). These software in this forum is really meant to been used without keyboard, but used with various forum for others controllers.

If you can use joystick and buttons, there exists some arcade jukebox software out here (including my own), there is also software to use a keypad style. Keyboard is not a options by folks in this forum, but nearly all other form for controls.

You also need a commercial Freebox license with is something higher than in home use (I understand completely that, no negative, Barcrest). Here I cant help, since I is not the author behind the app (but I have behind of a other jukebox application, MultiFE (before it was MultiJuke) which operate with mouse, joystick, keyboard or touchscreen.

[Barry Barcrest]

A Trackball would be better in a commercial environment as it could be built into the machine and they are quite robust. You can exit freebox with a mouse/trackball just as you would with a touchscreen. You just need to select Options and Shutdown, you can obviously pincode the options screen so the user will need to key in the pincode via the onscreen keypad that appears when attempting to access pin coded parts of the jukebox.