Searching for "my" Jukebox software

[Luigi]

I don't want a Jukebox with all my MP3s available all the time

Please let me explain what I'd like to have:

I'd like to create different "databases". One database only contains songs from the 80s. Another one contains movie soundtracks. Another one holds complete albums. And so on.

The software then lets me select the databases (from one to all) to use. So if we are inviting people to play in our gameroom I might select only the database with the songs from the 80s. The random player of the software only plays songs from the selected database(s) and people can only see the songs that are inside those databases.


There are a lot of different solutions out there and I already tried 4 or 5 but couldn't find what I'm looking for.


Does anybody know a software that is able to do that?


Thanks 

[Ian]

Check nordbeat... I know you can create and save different types of playlists, that can be recalled right in the software admin panel.

[Space Fractal]

In MultiFE (before MultiJuke), my own software, you can lock the genre, so you cant go pack to the mainpage, so the users only can use that genre. You can only unlock genre using a pin or passcode (if enabled).

My software support multiply database too and can been selected in the GUI. But the database selection (frontpage) can only been disabled trough config (inbuilt into the application, not separated like Freebox).

If you use my software, I prefer you to use Filemask and have some filemask like this for best performents (reading tags is much slowere):
c:\music\GENRE\ARTIST\ALBUMS\TRACK - TITLE.mp3

I do pretty sure I have seen that genre lock feature too (Freebox?).

[JackTucky]

Why would you want to limit what people can play? 

I have some comedy albums that I took out of my regular library because they aren't appropriate for my kids to listen to. 

Just wondering....

[nipsmg]

because if you have some insane number of songs and a lot of them are Singles, the number of "Albums" in your jukebox display gets large and unwieldy.

It makes a lot of sense to be able to "check" the albums you want in your main list, and leave the rest for "search".  So it might be nice to have configurable album lists that are "browsable" and every other song is searchable.  this is how the commerical jukeboxes do it.  All the songs on the actual jukebox are available to browse.  Don't see one you like? Search online (and pay an extra credit).

[Goz]

Don't most jukebox packages support Genre's?

[unclet]

My software supports genres as well as playlists.

[Space Fractal]

This time its a genre lock feature he insterred in this time. I remember I saw a similar request from another user here (long time ago) why I added that feature in my software. Passcode specifies library is in MultiFE as well (JackTucky "request") or just hide them using config.

Most software support genres, but not all might support to lock them to prevent users to select a another genre.

Singles is supported using a separate database without using albums, because I never liked to have them like one album with a lots of songs. I wanted to have them seperated. Nipsmg can use a simular feature like this, if you want singles and albums seperated like I do.

[Luigi]

Thanks for the hints 

That Playlist-thing sounds interesting....I will take a look at that


What about the random player? Does it take songs from all the playlists or only from the selected one?

Is any app able to crossfade two songs?



@unclet: can I modify the names of the different genres (for example in "Album") and can I lock single genres so they even cannot be seen in the album list?


I could live with one large library with all the singles and albums and make albums for singles like "Singles Letter A" to "Singles Letter Z"....but what happens if the software reads a "album"-directory "Singles Letter A" and it holds 200 songs?

And it should be possible to lock the albums so only the singles can be seen.


I will try UncleT and MultiFE this evening....due to lack of admin rights I can't install them here at work to do tests in lunch time

[Space Fractal]

normaly it would just list all 200 songs in same albums.

In my software you can create 2 libraries, one for singles and one for albums. Howover the genrelock is by library basis.

In UncleT Jukebox, his software is more pure album based, but it should not have any problems to read more than 99 songs.

THe filemask structur is simular in both MultiFE and Uncle't Jukebox. Make do sure you use the filemask Uncle'T Jukebox use (since it dosent read any id3 tags and is not needed at all by that software anyway).

About the genrelist feature, it a request to UncleT to add that feature anyway. I have not looked myself if his nice software have that feature, but should not to been hard to add that (all it need to add a keyboard shortcut and then disable the genrelist or something like that).

[Barry Barcrest]

Yes you can do this in freebox by genre, year or artist. The random player can be set to play just a specific genre. You can pin code each menu item so as to prevent someone changing the genre etc

NOTE: The genre, artist and year info are all pulled from the file tag so you will need your tags to be correct for this feature to work.

[unclet]

What about the random player? Does it take songs from all the playlists or only from the selected one?

In my software you can randomly play a certain Genre or randomly play the Top10/25/50/100 songs played so far.   Now, my software does not support playing Top10/25/50/100 songs from a particular genre and it does not support randomly playing songs from a certain playlist.

Basically, you can add any songs you want into a playlist.  My software displays all the playlists which exist (and songs within the currently selected playlist), so the user can then scroll through the playlist to select which songs they want to hear.

Is any app able to crossfade two songs?

I did not implement any crossfading effects.   It is more like a traditional jukebox.

@unclet: can I modify the names of the different genres (for example in "Album") and can I lock single genres so they even cannot be seen in the album list?

You can create any "Genre" names you want (ex: "Blues", "Rap", "Wacky Songs", "Not For Old People", etc ...)   You can then choose a particular genre so that only those albums associated with that genre are displayed.   You can then also hide the "Select Genre" button (via the Options/Party Lock page) so no one can change the genre to something else.

I could live with one large library with all the singles and albums and make albums for singles like "Singles Letter A" to "Singles Letter Z"....but what happens if the software reads a "album"-directory "Singles Letter A" and it holds 200 songs?

I believe my software can read up to 999 songs per albums, although it has been a long time so if you try it, you can let me know       I know I support 3 digit track numbers so I am assuming this means I can handle up to 999 songs per album.

And it should be possible to lock the albums so only the singles can be seen.

If you create a Genre called "Singles", then you can select the "Singles" genre to be displayed only.

[Luigi]

OK, thanks a lot for your patience

I think UncleT's jukebox and MultiFE will be the one I will test today.