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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: Rodeown on June 04, 2014, 05:23:20 am

Title: New Touch screen Jukebox build using Touchjams & a mini ITX dual celeron.
Post by: Rodeown on June 04, 2014, 05:23:20 am

Just a quick one, with a few pictures, Bought an oldish Wurlitzer style jukebox off Gumtree that needed some work, wife didn't want me changing/gutting it though so I have the touch screen mounted to the wall and kept the Jukebox original apart from a rotary audio selection switch on the back and a 3.5inch jack socket for the computer audio input. Had to replace many of the bulbs and do some soldering on dry joints inside but apart from that its good. Sounds so good as inside it has a couple of 70w speakers one above the over and two tweeters at the sides, can turn it up to rattle the walls without any distortion or loss of quality, most of the circuit on the amp are all done without any silicon chips so it is nice.
Computer is a Mini ITX passive cooled dual Celeron 2.4ghz with a 128GB ssd and a 500GB 2.5hdd running windows 8.1 with 2 gb of memory, runs very fast and ultra cool, no heat detected coming from it yet, even if I run video it hardly gets warm.

Reskinned the TouchJams interface so it looks better than the original (IMO) that took a couple of days to do.. loads of buttons to create.

(http://www.cloudcuckoo.madasafish.com/jukebox1.jpg)

(http://www.cloudcuckoo.madasafish.com/jukebox2.jpg)

(http://www.cloudcuckoo.madasafish.com/jukebox3.jpg)

Title: Re: New Touch screen Jukebox build using Touchjams & a mini ITX dual celeron.
Post by: mike boss on June 04, 2014, 02:52:53 pm

I love Touch Jams, like yourself I "HAD" to create my own skin.
I like the chrome suround on your buttons.
Cool project!

Title: Re: New Touch screen Jukebox build using Touchjams & a mini ITX dual celeron.
Post by: Rodeown on June 06, 2014, 08:09:26 am

Hi Mike,
I love touchjams, tried it a year or so ago but at that time it didn't show radio song titles or artist just the radio station & as the wife loves the Country music radio channels it was a no go, I emailed Bob back then and he has obviously sorted that problem  ;D

I was experiencing a small problem since I purchased it and that was the Volume +/- and mute were not working under windows 8, (funny though as stop play & pause still worked) been trying to sort it out with Bob but this morning I found that if I right clicked the shortcut and put it in Compatibility mode for windows 7 it works just fine.  :D

Obviously Microsoft have changed something between win7 and win 8 that Touchjams uses.

Anyway if anyone has this prob under Windows 8 then put Touchjams in compatibility mode for Windows7 and it will work fine.

Phil.