Freebox V4 NEW Demo Released (4.0.18)

[Barry Barcrest]

What's New in 4.0.14

Main App:
BUG: Play next didn't work until you used play now (FIXED)
BUG: Second screen would not display VIS (FIXED)
BUG: Show new on recent albums crash the juke if you went to the last page. (FIXED)
BUG: Use Second screen for music didn't work from startup. (FIXED)
BUG: Setting do not repeat random songs to 11 caused a crash. (FIXED)
BUG: Quickjump doesn't work if there is a & in title. (FIXED)
BUG: in addition on the Track Listing Page if the Album Title has an "&" in it, it also shows up incorrectly (FIXED)
BUG: Queue.upl wasn't updating on skip track (FIXED)
CHANGED: Covernames now loaded and saved to covername.ini
ADDED: Security Settings button to freebox and moved all the pin code stuff into it.

Config 4:
BUG: Copy first image found wasn't working, it should now work.
BUG: When you do an update and check the remove missing files that didn't save on exit, now it does.
BUG: Update Database doesn't remeber the use album name on various (FIXED)
BUG: New.cvr wasn't generating properly (FIXED)
CHANGED: Covernames now saved to covername.ini
CHANGED: Remove missing files will now remove and re-add files that didn't have an artist or album tag. This is usefull if you have updated the tags after noticing they don't show up when you build the library.

Skintool:
CHANGED: Now saves the options screen ini differently to accomodate the extra button

Other:
Setup EXE is using an updated version of the installer, still need to fix the uninstall issues.
Some code optimisations, nothing great i just tidied some things up.

Download link at top of page.

[panama1974]

   
excuse my English
   
The software of Mr Barry Barcrest is very good, I like displays of worms in the second monitor, which has no pity for option buttons arcade, here in panama is earning  2 dollar per hour in the United States and you earn 25 or 30 dollar the time and was going to pay 25 dollar  complaining of freebox v4.

[Barry Barcrest]

   
excuse my English
   
The software of Mr Barry Barcrest is very good, I like displays of worms in the second monitor, which has no pity for option buttons arcade, here in panama is earning  2 dollar per hour in the United States and you earn 25 or 30 dollar the time and was going to pay 25 dollar  complaining of freebox v4.

I am not in the U.S. so that $25 is actually more like $12.50 once it's converted to sterling. Not a great deal for me either considering the time i spend on it i doubt i even make $1 an hour.

I think you are trying to say you want freebox to work with buttons? I could probably add some functionality for you to be able to do this if you are interested drop me a mail.

[mccoy178]

Now wait a minute.  The dollar gained 15% last week. 

[Space Fractal]

would this not use a lots of buttons, since Freebox not was designed that way (one for each button on screen) and need a button based skin or they need to known how navigation is used?

You is 100% correctly in the other thread he should use a trackball, since it much more commerciel like cabinet when used rather than a mouse and use less place too. A X-Arcade with trackball could nicely been used.

Otherwice I think it exits joystick/keyboard -> mouse emulator world work fine with dedicated page buttons and a joystick/buttons as navigation (joystick/3 buttons).

[Barry Barcrest]

would this not use a lots of buttons, since Freebox not was designed that way (one for each button on screen) and need a button based skin or they need to known how navigation is used?

Not really, back in V2 i think i had an keypad input mode. It shows numbers on the albums like 0001, you key that then the track number and then pick play next, play now, add to queue or cancel. I also had an option where once the track number was keyed in that song would add to queue and you were back on the album page. Admittedly it doesn't support half the freebox features that way but it does work in a simular waw to SK.

I might add it back in if there is interest as it was pretty easy to do.

[panama1974]

   
excuse my English
   
The software of Mr Barry Barcrest is very good, I like displays of worms in the second monitor, which has no pity for option buttons arcade, here in panama is earning  2 dollar per hour in the United States and you earn 25 or 30 dollar the time and was going to pay 25 dollar  complaining of freebox v4.

I am not in the U.S. so that $25 is actually more like $12.50 once it's converted to sterling. Not a great deal for me either considering the time i spend on it i doubt i even make $1 an hour.

I think you are trying to say you want freebox to work with buttons? I could probably add some functionality for you to be able to do this if you are interested drop me a mail.

       At the forum there are people who want freebox free and do not want to pay for, people want everything for free, people think that Mr Barry Barcrest works for free and want you to donate freebox, are not hard with the money and pay 25 dollar freebox.

[JackTucky]

I think Panama is on your side Barry.   

[javeryh]

Is this an easy program to skin?  I'm going to download the demo and try it out but I'm not sure the black and blue default is how I want it to look...

[Barry Barcrest]

Is this an easy program to skin?  I'm going to download the demo and try it out but I'm not sure the black and blue default is how I want it to look...

You really should join our forum at http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/ if you are interested in skinning. The skintool takes a bit of getting used to but if you can't figure it out but can make the graphics then someone on there will be able to turn it into a skin.

Here are some others made by users:

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=333.0


http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=851.0

[Barry Barcrest]

On a related note the demo has been brought upto date with the latest build.

Main App:
BUG: Clicking on a tab where there was no database broke the album browse (FIXED)
BUG: Enabling the Animations broke the album browse (FIXED)
BUG: Winamp shut off between songs if it was enabled (FIXED)

Skin changes...
00menu.bmp - History Button
01menu.bmp - Top 10 Button
02menu.bmp - Search Button
03menu.bmp - Queue Button
04menu.bmp - Options Button
05menu.bmp - Decades Button
06menu.bmp - Playlist Button
07menu.bmp - Filter Button
08menu.bmp - Album Button

01album.bmp - Audio
02album.bmp - Video
03album.bmp - Karaoke
04album.bmp
05album.bmp - newly added

Clicking those buttons loads those backdrop files for the menu or the album cover screens. Hopefully some skin authors can make use of this. If the files are missing then it just keeps the default backdrop for those skins. Hopefully if this is well recieved I will be able to do a bit more like this to make the skins more dynamic.

Config:
BUG: Resizing covers larger than the screen didn't work. (FIXED)
BUG: Genre, Artist and Year Libraries were not building correctly in some cases (FIXED)

Link is the same as always.

[raymondo]

Hi Barry

I am now near completion of my jukebox, I decided to test it with the wife (very important).  Showed her the jukebox playing Freebox and AlbumPlayer.  Freebox was the hands down winner.  My wife is not very computer literate but could use your software without too much trouble.

This brings me onto my question.

I would like to donate/pay for the latest version, however I believe your forums have hit the limit again.  Do I simply send over a paypal payment and then email you?

Keep up the good work.

Ray

[kizer]

Isn't it amazing that somebody can be that popular all the time that they eat up all their bandwidth for the month.

[beanboy33]

What is the difference between the demo version and the pay version besides the time limit?

[Barry Barcrest]

Bug fixes and support... Not much really. Personally if people keep using the demo i might save some bandwidth for the people that have paid, so the demo is probably the best option. Why pay me money? i just don't get it myself...

[raymondo]

Ohhh that sounds a little bitter.

If you like the software and intend to use it, pay for it.  We all have mouths to feed.
If Barry has a skill for Jukebox software then he should get paid for it, even if it is only 12 quid!!

As I mentioned in my earlier post if the wife can use it, then your onto a winner.

Keep up the good work.

Ray

PS paypal payment sent 

[Barry Barcrest]

Cheers buddy. I have sent you the information. My previous post was more sarcastic than bitter, it was supposed to be funny or something... 

[Space Fractal]

Bug fixes and support... Not much really. Personally if people keep using the demo i might save some bandwidth for the people that have paid, so the demo is probably the best option. Why pay me money? i just don't get it myself...

haha.....

I still have the effoct to help you to have a nice little frontpage with your application, like when you have version 2.0 and let the forum directly use your domain (or use keizer server using this by redirecting with frames, but break the frames when using forum).

[kizer]

I'll host as long as I can host files or whatever.

[Barry Barcrest]

Demo has been updated to 4.0.18, it's just bug fixes but if you had any problems with the previous demo you might want to check it out.

[javeryh]

Does Freebox support tagging by mp3tag?  I just spent a couple hours tagging a bunch of albums but when I start freebox not a single one of the album covers appears ad nothing is named properly...

[kizer]

Yeah, mine are all tagged and they show up properly.

[javeryh]

Yeah, mine are all tagged and they show up properly.

Hmmm... maybe I'm not starting up freebox properly... I click on config and then when it opens I make sure my "music" folder is open on the right and then I hit "generate library" - is this right?

Also, I don't see any option to make freebox full screen.  Right now it is running in a tiny window.

[Barry Barcrest]

There is a checkbox to run it fullscreen under the options and apearence settings.

As for the album covers it doesn't read those from the tag. You need an image named something like cover.jpg in the album folder. You need to specify the filname you will use for the covers and keep it the same across all your albums. When you generate using the config you can make it make a smaller thumbnail of that image for the album cover browsing screen. Using a smaller thumbnail on that screen speeds up the paging through the albums quite a lot.

[javeryh]

Thanks Barry.  I'm a moron - I didn't see all the other buttons on the bottom once I pressed options.  I think the tagging is working OK at least for the song and album names but when I generate the library and I see it scrolling through all of my files the tags that are populating the fields really quick do not appear to be the tags I saved using mp3tag - I removed ALL comments using mp3tag but they are showing up as I generate the library.

Thanks for the tip about the covers too.  In some of my folders I have files like thumbs.db or something that starts off 00-.... I'm going through and deleting everything other than the audio files (.mp3s), then tagging with mp3tag, then creating a cover.jpg file in each folder for the cover art.  Is this what I'm supposed to be doing?  My files are set up like this:

c:\music\
c:\music\artist\
c:\music\artist\album [year]\
c:\music\artist\album [year]\song 1
c:\music\artist\album [year]\song 2
c:\music\artist\album [year]\song 3
c:\music\artist\album [year]\song 4
c:\music\artist\album [year]\cover.jpg

It's a lot of work to tag and setup everything (but totally worth it) so I just want to make sure I'm doing it properly.

Thanks!!!   

[Barry Barcrest]

Yes sounds like you are doing it correctly. You need to make sure that the tag you have in there is ID2.2 tag and not the ID1 tag. I know in tag and rename you can sync the tags but not sure with what you are using.