MP3 Jukebox finished

[PileOfMonkeyCrap]

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Began it's life as an Atari Tetris mini cabinet.  The monitor died a few years ago, but I always hung on to the cab.  

Control panel is custom from 1/2" plywood and uses a 3" Happs trackball connected via Optipac & serial to the PC.  Sound system is a Logitech sub and 4 surround sound satellites that are hidden behind those grills.  The grills are from a Phillips boom box.  I used those because the Logitech grills are not flat and wouldn't sit flush. So those grills hide the holes in the cab where the satellites are mounted.   Subwoofer sits outside the cabinet.  The speaker controls are mounted on the bottom under the PC.  

Uses a 17" PC monitor with BNC cabling and runs on XP with Arcade Jukebox, which is what the customer wanted.  Sounds totally kick-ass.  On the top of the cab above the monitor is a USB neon tube that can either pulsate to the music or stay on solid blue.

Rick

[spectre]

that doesn't look too bad at all...
I'm thinking about making a juke box after i get this arcade thing done i dunno

[SirPeale]

Hey Rick!  Good to see you.  Sharp lookin' thing, that.

What the heck did you cover it with?

[PileOfMonkeyCrap]

Hey Rick!  Good to see you.  Sharp lookin' thing, that.

What the heck did you cover it with?

Hey Peale,

The cabinet and PC are spray painted with a black granite texture paint called "Stone Creations" by "American Accents".  It can be found in Home Depot or Lowes and comes in various finishes.  I also used a clear enamel sealer on the control panel after painting.  The paint was requested by the customer, and I think it turned out pretty nice.

Rick

[Mameham]

 That stone paint is great... I used it on two of my fireplaces...

[SirPeale]

I used it on a computer case once.  Looked great!

[PileOfMonkeyCrap]

The PC case in that mp3 cab is painted using it also.  It was a black case, which made for better looking coverage.  Next time I use that paint for a cabinet, I'll giving it a quick coat of black first.  I had a white primer on the cab from earlier work.  The texture spray paint took twice as much to cover the white.  Next time I know.

Rick

[SirPeale]

Yeah, I used black fleckstone, don't remember what variety.  I (luckily) painted it black before using the fleck, for that reason.

[BobA]

Looks good.  I notice you are using arcade jukebox.  What is the number of songs that you find are usable with aj7? I tried it with 200 albums and couldnt find a comfortable way to access all the songs.

BobA

[PileOfMonkeyCrap]

Currently with Arcade Jukebox, I have only 100 songs setup for it.  I did find out that it was very slow when using more mp3 files.  My job was to build the cab and the customer wanted Arcade Jukebox.  So, that's what I gave them.  I also tried out PC Jukebox, which seemed like it has potential, but didn't want to bother with any more configuration time.  At least Arcade Jukebox is quickly up and running.

Rick

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Sincerely, it looks odd!

 

But it's cool! Too bad that it's only a jukebox!