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So it looks like your win9x problem lay here.... Hopefully over the weekend i will have what should be getting close to V1.0 up for a release and i will try and fix this issue for you then.
The only real issue is if move across to the amp3dj.ocx that everyone else is using as it would take an extra couple of days to get up and running again, what with the code changes. I will see how much i get done tonight and post an update.
I have almost got a version ready now with the search working. I have also taken away the windows list boxes on the main screen however you now need to build a database of tracks using a seperate config program.
Well it turned out the search routine i used wes not searching correctly anyway ( It basically only returned tracks starting with the key word, like if you search kill it would give "killers" but not "To Be Killed" )For a jukebox, I don't think this is a problem... this kind of search should be just fine.
That sounds really good - speed wize at least.TinySQL is potentially a good option. I've looked at it for DOSCab/WinCab, but since DOSCab/WinCab only needs filters, not full searches, I'm just going to build the indexes myself.
I was going to come in and suggest that people adding searches need to use something with a bit of muscle like a free version of SQL, or at least some form of Binary or hash search algorithm to search the database.
I'll give this a look next week...
Well I downloaded the newest version and it's still a no go. I tried using the config.exe to set the directory and the Browse mode. Neither would change the directory. I had to manually type it in. When I run the generate library it says 0 mp3's found. I put the directory in as c:\music and as I said my structure is c:\music\artist$\album$\track$. It just doesn't look in the subdirectories. Also after doing this I now get a run-time 53 error File Not Found
Ok got her running. Here are a few issues and suggestions.
The page number gets confused when jumping forward and back.
The album button disappeared
The scroll bar is to small when trying to select a song
Options page should be password protected
Display play controls works opposite when you check the box.
Jump to artist doesn't work
Play now should be the smaller button and add to Queue should be larger.
Need more options managing queue like select a track to move to the top position in the queue.
Finally....
Nope, no such luck.
Getting
Runtime Error: '76'
Path Not Found
When I try to launch.....
Also, in 113, the Jump To Artist doesn't really jump to the letter in the alphabet for me.
One possibility for using the freed up realastate might be showing what the next song in the queue is. then if you touch it it would jump straight to that track. Just a thought.
Check out this site for buttons.
http://free.alphabutton.com/?ref=16&search=33
It doesn't automatically add it to the playlist? YOu have to click add to queue or play now
Looks like it was something to do with the animated GIF that was causing problems anyway, i have not had the strang close problem since so here is the new version. Would be great if someone could try out the dual screen support and the visualisations.
Download
Rapidshare (1.3mb)
http://rapidshare.de/files/4147950/setup120.zip.html
Ok, things are looking better.
A couple things I'll point out:
1.)
Ok installed it last night on a win98se box (just for fun cause i wanted to see the touchscreen work) anyways I got a mscomctl.ocx missing error--so Ire-registered that file (apparently this is a problem installing and uninstalling programs, it becomes unregistered) but the program takes forever to start--its on a p3 667 with 128mb ram (old system I know) would more ram help this or am i just expecting too much out of the p3?
The vidoes are displayed on the now playing screen if you have not set it to dual monitor otherwise they show up on the second monitor. Click on the now playing section top left of the jukebox to see this screen. The video tab isn't used yet but it will be in the next version, i should also have the corrupt mp3 thing sorted by then as well.
As for CD+G there is very little info around on playing these files but i will see what i can do.
The vidoes are displayed on the now playing screen if you have not set it to dual monitor otherwise they show up on the second monitor. Click on the now playing section top left of the jukebox to see this screen. The video tab isn't used yet but it will be in the next version, i should also have the corrupt mp3 thing sorted by then as well.
As for CD+G there is very little info around on playing these files but i will see what i can do.
This would been very hard, because the CD-G format is not puplic released (maybe because of patents). The software may have a very high lincense fee, so we may never have a free software to doing kareoke.
But....
A Another way to do, could been convert from a CD-G to AVI, using this software (not tested): http://www.tricerasoft.com/karaoke_software/CDG_to_AVI_Conversion_Tool.html
It a lots easier to sync a AVI file to a MP3 (wich is a little cheat, but better than nothing)....
Just a quick one though.. when you get the 'videos tab' working, will you just be able to leave them named "Artist - Song" or will you have some other way of naming?
Ok nearly 35 minutes since my last post and it hasn't finished loading. Something is up.
Ok regenerating the library.
This would be far easier on msn or irc LOL... I know why none of that stuff is working it thinks you only have 1 page of albums. Why it thinks you only have 1 page i don't know, how many albums did you build it with? At the moment i am just working on the karaoke stuff but that can wait as it sounds like you have a major bug and i would like to fix that for you first.
Is it saying 1/1 on the current page view?
I found a basic information about CDG format:
http://www.jbum.com/jbum/sware/cdg_revealed.txt
Ths link you have found is based on that document, when I have seen the source.
I have now got very basic thing to work (it actuelly display some text and color them fine), but I need more CD-G (I have only one), but it need a lotsmore work before a release (with my Arcade Music Box of cource, but later I made a command line support). It still missing the scrolling and other few things.
I used the full library, 2000+ albums.
Did you found a free cdg plugin (like that one I found to you) to kill that watermark?
Man you work to fast. The Karaoke's not that big a deal. There are other good apps out there like Sax and Dotty's but great work none the less.
Barcrest,
This is coming along nicely, but I still can't get Jump To Artist to work.
You're moving along incredibly fast!
Oh yeah the alphabet comes up, but when I press a button, nothing happens.
fyi, I'm not doing anything w/video or karaoke.
Hey Bar,
Oh yeah the alphabet comes up, but when I press a button, nothing happens.
fyi, I'm not doing anything w/video or karaoke.
http://rapidshare.de/files/4554539/freebox.zip.html
That is a debug version for you to try. When you click a letter it will confim the letter then tell you where it found the letter and how many covers it searched for that letter.
If you post back what is said on a few button presses (Different letters) i might be able to see where the problem is.
Tried the karaoke addition and for the most part it works.
Few problems tho. Sometimes when I open the application the HDD grinds away for minutes on end for no apparent reason, in this time my pc is basically locked but (moves extremely sluggish) which it shouldnt (sempron 2400+ w/512mb DDR). Sometimes opens straight up. Wierd.
The other problem im having is that the aspect ratio on the 'Now Showing screen' seems to be cuttin the tops and bottoms off my video clips and karaoke clips. Any way to have an option to alter this, not sure if its happening to anyone else or just the way my clips are encoded maybe.
Also cant seem to get the thumbnails for the video clips to work. Im assuming that it is thinking they are mp3 style files as it is also saying 'No Tag' for these.
It shows the 4 folders as it should, and has a thumb for this, but is there anyway of having a view under the folder of maybe 6x thumbs (1 thumb for each video clip)? something similar to how the MP3 'main' page is listed. If you catch my drift.
BTW.. my karaoke mp3+g songs are also showing up as 'No Tag', not sure if it hasnt been implemented yet or possibly the tags are wrong, havent had a chance to look at it yet
Cheers
damo
Barcrest,
Bonus! Nothing that I intend to use is broken!
I'm several versions back. Can I just replace the exe or do I need the whole package?
Bugs that appear in latest version for me (including updated exe) Sure you already know some of them...
Progress bar in generate library seems to stop early. Process continues ok though...
Too many 'corrupt' mp3's
If I select a dir which with no sub-dirs that has mp3's in it (say 1 album) it says it finds no mp3's and then crashes out.
(and in library) lots of my mp3's are scanned as having really odd characters like
Config/Generate Library:Bugs that appear in latest version for me (including updated exe) Sure you already know some of them...
Progress bar in generate library seems to stop early. Process continues ok though...
Not sure what is happening here as it seems to work ok for me? I will take a look thought and maybe do a debug version for you to let me know where it's not working correctly.
Main program:(and in library) lots of my mp3's are scanned as having really odd characters like
The funny thing here is that it does not look like there are any odd characters. If I open the mp3 in media player/tagscanner/tag&rename then they all say eg "Eminem" for artist. In the jukebox, it comes out as "
OK, I finally had a chance to put the software on my juke.
Some specs first : 900 MHz Athlon, 512 Mb RAM, 3D Rage IIc AGP and a SB Live with windows 2000 Pro.
I love the look but It's just too slow on this machine. Using the six album (4 is disabled?) It takes over 30 sec. to display the album after touching the cover. Guests keep asking if its locked.
Hi,
All MP3s are on a local HD. Cover browsing is much faster by comparison, I can't get a 2 count before it changes.
Also, I'm using the database
My collection is comprized of MP3s from many different sources. Some have tags and some don't. I'd prefer not to use tags at all.
The collection is in the format : artist/album/00-track.mp3 so I haven't had the need to tag.
So... can I get rid of the lag without the tag?
Ok, the database file still isn't being deleted.
Hi Barcrest,
I have been testing out your software and it is fantastic so far.
Update:
I created a new folder and put six albums w/tags into it,
I created the database. I still have the lag. And interestingly enough it lags when I navigate the side buttons Eg, Historyand top 20.
I'm running 129 I think. I'll uninstall and install the latest version and report back.
Also, When its running, can you tell what version it is? I couldn't find the version anywhere . Maybe you should put a number in the options so we can tell if we are up to date. Great job with the updates, I can't keep up ;D
Thanks
I'm not getting the lag.
Yep, I am using the 1st image found option.
And this PC is slightly faster than the 900mhz, i.e. 3 Ghz, but in the end, the PC that the Juke will be on will be less that 500mhz most likely.
Feature request: this may be a biggy, and not where you want to go,
Update #2:
Reinstalled... No change.
One oddity though, I have 90 mp3's in the directory and after building the database it said 90 bad! Everyone of them plays fine in all programs including freebox.
Also my hard drive is NTFS in case it makes any difference. I'll keep trying different things and get back if there is any change.
Quick query:
Does freebox completely ignore direcotry structure and just use tags?
If it finds mp3's in completely different directories, but have the same Artist/Album tags - will it display them in the same album?
Feature request: this may be a biggy, and not where you want to go,
UPDATE 2:
If any of you guys do use MSN i recommend adding me as we can talk through problems and ideas in real time. This would be a great help to me... Thanks.
P500mhz.... I really think you need to test the software out on that. I know that i can't use animations and visualisations on my P700 but aside from that everything else is fine. You might want to check to see what you can actually achieve on you P500, also this will help me to look at areas that need speed improvments.
QuoteUPDATE 2:
If any of you guys do use MSN i recommend adding me as we can talk through problems and ideas in real time. This would be a great help to me... Thanks.
Don't have MSN, but would be happy to give you a gmail account and I use google talk.QuoteP500mhz.... I really think you need to test the software out on that. I know that i can't use animations and visualisations on my P700 but aside from that everything else is fine. You might want to check to see what you can actually achieve on you P500, also this will help me to look at areas that need speed improvments.
Not concerned about the animations and visualisations personally.
I just put Freebox on a Celeron 400 w/192 mb of Ram.
Trying to create the database bombed after 1 1/2 hours.
Problem fixed!
The problem was the album art tag.
I removed all art tags from my test directory and it creates the database in a flash.
Now loading albums in less than 2 sec. Also now it thinks all of my mp3s are good again. MUCH better!!
Now to tackle the 60+ GB of music on the rest of the system.
Where is the option to switch to help like an attract mode?
Barcrest,
I don't know if I asked it before, but what are the chances of supporting multiple drives?
For example, a feature that would all you to add drives to scan.
--I would click the Add button, and it would allow me to browse to a folder to add.
--I then click the Add button again, and add a second drive.
The software then knows to scan both drives to create the database.
Too difficult?
No worries the next version will have an option to turn off track numbers.
No worries the next version will have an option to turn off track numbers.
That's great news.
I was hoping to get a little more feedback on the skinning tool but i don't think anyone is really using yet.
I get a runtime error when I try to go to History after the 'fix' for album art. :o
I was hoping to get a little more feedback on the skinning tool but i don't think anyone is really using yet.
Without going into too much detail, can you give a quick rundown of exactly how to use it?
Hi,
Just letting you know of few things I am having issues with.
I have a question on how the program sorts directories that are filled with assorted artists and albums?
Specs:
p3 700 Laptop with 256Mb ram and 10Gb hard drive running XP.
Specs:
p3 700 Laptop with 256Mb ram and 10Gb hard drive running XP.
Nice work - I'll take a look in the next couple of days and get some feedback to you...
looks like great progress!
Had a quick look: Not had much time so if I miss something obvious, apologies....
config (the new one above) will crash if you select an empty drive - eg a cd drive with nothing in it.
config progress bar now does not "stick" after a few bars - although mine always finished the process if I left it. Interestingly it slows down massively when scanning certain albums (looks like similar place to where it paused before) but works fine. The same albums seem to cause a delay when calling them up in the main program - I have no idea why. They have ID3 tags of v1.1 and v2.3, like almost all my other mp3s.
A choice of fonts for certain areas would really help me out. Maybe I can do this with a skin, have not tried it. When viewing an album far too many of my songs are listed off the screen...
Also when viewing an album, only 10 songs are listed, with up/down buttons - I've not seen the space under the down button used for anything - can the list be extended down there?
The jump to album will use the up and down buttons to scroll yeas, also it will display cover thumbnails next to each listing eventually. The varisous artists thing has been in for a while, if an album has more than one artist on it will be titled various artists. Otherwise which artist name would it use? The one from the first mp3? The second? The last? For this reason you have to make sure that albums by the same artist have the same tag. I can add an option to turn this off but your compilation albums will then show as being by the first artist?
Wow fast work!!!
I was not referring to the albums being listed as by Various artists in the main list view - thats fine (although I'm finding there are loads of albums by 1 artist, where lots of the songs have collaborators....).
Its the "jump to album" bit - If I have an album "Dance hits of the Decade" or whatever, I'd like to jump to it by selecting 'D' - but the jump to album bit lists it as "Various Artists - Dance hits....". It seems to be adding the Artist to the album name when I'm trying to jump. This means I have around 100 entries out of 120 coming under 'V' in my test sample (yes almost all of them are compilation cds).
A reduction in font size as an option would certainly help me....
Thanks for all your efforts.
One thing I've asked for in any of the jukeboxes that I've tried here - which is quite un-jukebox like, but very handy for large collections - is options to display all the albums by any available tag field. Ie genre/year/artist/album name.. all on the fly.
Obviously this may be very hard depending on how your whole system is setup, and may well be something you don't want to do, but thought I would mention it anyway....
If "low on your priorities" = "ask me in a week or so" thats pretty impressive....!
Having tried loads of jukebox of software I realise its quite hard to have your cake and eat it - that is have nice gui (suitable for touchscreen) that doesn't rely on small text (a la Freebox or WinCab)
Well I'm enjoying all the progress your making... looking forward to future versions!
PCjukebox - apart from costing $$$, I've tried it and found it really rather slow - far too much for me. Not tried for a while though...
System Specs: P3 766mhz with 188mb of ram and a 40gb database of music.
Hello Barry,
what for an nice Software you are create!
I sympathise with your ID3V2 problems... I was playing around a while ago with database creation for another project, and used my mp3's as a testbed....
In the end I ended up using a (free) 3rd party api called Fmod.
It may well be not the route you want to go, but its quite extensive: Its a totally cross-platform audio engine that supports a very wide range of audio files, very full featured, and completely free to non-commericial use. It also has explicit support (and examples) for VB.
I only really used it for reading in tags (basically it provides you with a bunch of classes, and you just load up a file into one of its audio streams and then you can pull all the tag information you want via the classes without having to deal with the file yourself.) If I recall you could also turn off its pre-buffering to have quick access to the file so you can read the tags quickly... Of course, no idea if its as quick as reading tags as your current setup, and I'm sure there are laods of other options out there...
http://www.fmod.org/
Barcrest...
As usual, each release continues to amaze me.
A couple things:
1.) The Config program is much improved. This time it didn't freeze on me after 29000 songs. The thing actually continued to do it's business AND display that it was doing it's business. Usually, I lose the display part. A thought occured to me though while I was watching it work. BTW, 20 minutes for that many songs. Works for me! Anywho, on to my thought: How difficult would it be to add an option to exclude certain directories. For example, I have several holiday albums that I would only want to include during the holiday months, but I don't want to separate them and move them from their current location for fear that I'll forget about them. I've seen in other apps the ability to specify directories that you want to exclude from scanning.
2.) The jump to artist feature is much improved, but I noticed a downside in its current state, something that you are probably working on, but I'll mention it anyway. If I have more than 8 albums beginning with any specific letter, I can't jump to them. Instead, in it's current state, I'm forced to use the forward/back buttons in the album view to get to them. How bout a scroll bar in that jump to artist window to allow me to see more than just 8 albums? I also liked the option in the previous jump to artist rendition that allowed me to jump to a letter and browse. Is that still available?
Sounds good - I should point out I mentioned fmod simply as I've come across it before. There may well be superior tag reading scripts/api's available I have no idea. (Fmods claims of greatness tend to revolve around its solve-all approach in terms of playing lots of music types.
That looks pretty handy. I don't think a 2 sec pop up is an issue when its just on the database generation..... I'm sure implimenting it won't be too hard. The hard bit is using all that data the right way...
Oh, and make sure you get these the right way round:
ANOTHER NEW FEATURE (In Development)
I was thinking of adding holiday support...
Basically adational databses and skin settings that will come into effect on specified dates.
E.G. St Patricks day
It switches to a specified ST Patricks day skin and loads the additional ST Patricks day database.
Obviously this will involve a litle bit of work but should enable you to have holiday databases and skin settings for any holidays you specify in a file. Christmas, Haloween, Thanks Giving whatever you can think of....
Barcrest,
That was quick, thanks.
Ok, I'm really confused by what you just said.
Hi Barry,
I`ve download the new version and it works very nice on my low end laptop.
The problems with the ID tags is not solved...
Hey Bar,
One other thing you might want to cosider is changing the name of your jump to artist feature. It's really a jump to letter feature. If it was a jump to artist feature you should be able to find a group like styx by hitting S then T to narrow in but if you do that first it jumps to the first artist starting with S then the first artist starting with T
;) Hello Barry, first off I really like the program and I am doing some experimenting while I wait for some parts to start building my juke.
1) It appears that when Random mode is on, the "next song" display shows the last chosen song.
2) The Help button shows me a screen that's titled "Top 20 played songs" and some undefined text fields.
3) It could be useful to have a "now playing" button so you could get to the screen to "give a thumbs up" without waiting for the idle time to show the screen
Just some feedback on the carosel feature. You might want to look at a new way of implementing it. What you should do is when you pick an album have a button next to the play whole album that would add it to the shuffle play. Then have a button on the main screen that would take you to the list of albums in the shuffle play. The way you have it now people at a party can't use this feature unless you give them the password to your options page. (A big nono)
When I hit "Add entire Album" I get a msgbox popping up for each song in the album with an ok button. After clicking all the ok buttons, it has worked......
Does New Method have an impact if you are using Database for music?
Bug:
I made a database with 2000 mp3s, all worked fine. I then went to the config program to make a completely new database in a completely different location. I pointed to the new dir with just 350 mp3s and hit generate. It reports successful completelion instantly, without scanning the mp3's. In the jukebox it list the correct number of albums but with song names taken from the old database. It seems to cut the records file size down to the correct new size without adding the new data.
If I delete the records.rec and then generate database again (pointing at the new dir with only 350 mp3's) it scans properly and works fine.
Hello Barry,
thank you for the Update, for the faster Albumview. On my 600 Mhz PII PC machine it takes only one second from side to side. Thats good!
Bug:
When in Album view, select an Album, which takes you to the individual album.
You will notice Album, Artist, and Released information below the album image do not match.
Hi Barry,
news from the bugs
A new little bug I found
Hi Barry,
nice look your 4 Cover side!
Hi Barry,
I have an new idea for an nice new function. If I go every evening in my bed
Hey, this idea was on my own Arcade Music Box since one of the very first versions! I really like that feature.
Barcrest:
Just use the shutdown software (I used a 3third party to doing that), that follow with AMB. It works really great on all OS (XP shutdown is NOT the same as the 98 and NT, they all use diffecent methods).
Hi Barry,
new update is flying :-) Very nice...
The playing music function is already working.
Now some new little bugs i found today.
Shutdown:
I tried to doing both API and commandline call, but it didden't work very great in some situtions. The commandline utility I used was really good, and can been forced to shutdown the OS. It named Poweroff, and can been found on this adress:
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html
I know you do not like to call third party utilies, but this one is shutdown and dosen't need a ocx or fullscreen control or so in.
This application tested succesful on both Win 98 and Win XP (but have not tested on Win 2000). I dosen't have acces to Win 98 anymore....
But all is up to you, how to use it (even I got that rare feature, and used it as well here).
[EDIT]
Bugs I found, when I quick tested for first time today (yes it very well made and like it, if I would use on a real jukebox):
- Alt F4, Ctrl-Q and/or Close Button didden't work here (danish XP), could only close with SHIFT ALT DELETE. This is a important it can close down in a real way (but close button is of course hidden in fullscreen mode).
- A Tiny Spelling in Search: BACKSAPCE
Barcrest -
When I use the 'Forward' button, the album covers scroll through just fine.
Here is the latest build, this an attempt to fix the file not found problem.. Let me know guys.
Here is the latest build, this an attempt to fix the file not found problem.. Let me know guys.
I tried it and it still bombs out when using the back button when you reach the first screen of album covers.
Hi Barry,
there is only a little bug I found
Hi Barry,
thats all correct. I only use the MP3s no Video, no karaoke.
WORKAROUND:
Build a Video and Karaoke database using the config.exe you can build this so it is the same as your music database or just a small one that will contain at least 1 page of albums so either 6 or 12 and it will work... ;D
UPDATE:[/b]
I have worked a little bit more on the NEW METHOD for the album view, it now displays track numbers if selected and will display the artist name on compilation albums. I just need it to display the correct information elsewhere like on the now playing and queue screens and i will release one more test version. If this passes without a hitch i will remove the old database method and replace it with this much faster one.
UPDATE 2:
I have fixed up the NEW METHOD for displaying the tracks, it now seems to work fine so here is the test release. Also i have made it quicker when going through the pages in ablum view. 3 times quicker to be exact as before it was drawinf the video and karaoke tabs even though you couldn't see them. Now it only updates what is required. I will continue to work on optimizing the mess that is the code LOL....
Barcrest, I think it would be better to display the track name on compilation albums...not the artist name.
You have lost me here, i am always displaying the track names. On compilation albums it then displays Artist - Trackname. Maybe the trackname is being cut off due to a long artist name, i can add an option to only display track names even on compilation albums if you require. Or 3 types of display for compilation albums, Track name only, Artist- Trackname or Trackname - Artist.
What do you think?
The real problem is the fact there just isn't the room to fit much on an 800x600 display, i could make the track listing font smaller but then it's hard to use on a touch screen. I am open to any suggestions here, however i think we have enough space to make it at least a few characters wider.
Ah.. You found a bug. It doesn't show Artist - Track on the first 3 tracks of compilation albums.... I will try and get this all fixed up tonight ;D
Hi Barry,
good news - the main volume saving works good!
Hi Barry,
many thanks for the new download 1.4.48.
Barry,
I'm sure you mentioned it once or twice and said to ignore it more or less, but.....If I want to fix all the tracks that come up as "corrupt" what do I need to make sure is correct in the tags so that they no longer come up that way?
Also,
Ok the corrupt albums are probably to do with embedded art. This is what caused the problem for me....
The incorrect albums showing up at the start are to do with missing album or artist tags, probably artists as it sorts by these. Check you have got the V1 and V2 tags lined up...
That is definatly a tag issue, you need to check the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags in something like tag an rename. You are missing artist and album tags on some and just the artist tags on others. If you correct these then the will be sorted correctly in the jukebox.
As for the error with the back button, i only say this if using "First artwork found" as the image option. Also that problem is now fixed because the 2 guys that had the problem have varified it has now gone away. If you can give me;
The exact error message,
What options you are using to display images,
How to recreate the error.
I will then try and re-create it myself, once i can recreate it then it should be an easy fix.
Thanks
BB
Hi Barry,
all the these errors are hanging in the ID-Tags.
What path are these mp3's stored in? I am trying to recreate the error but alas i cannot.
Ok, how many albums are you looking at adding? This might be the cause of the invalid array index. You may have actually exceeded the limit.... :o The other problem with the generate library i am looking into now!
Try this config.exe it allows you to resize the window to see the hidden fields etc.. Drag the bottom down that might give you a clue as to what is happening as i just tested it with 146 albums i copied to a new folder.. C:\WORK CDS\ and it worked fine..
Just a thought but is it creating an error.txt file and is there anything in there?
I recently tried this jukebox software and I had some problems.
Well crap.
The big problem with being alble to change the font background is everything will look very blocky. As all the labels would have a coloured block behind them like the Album labels.
The big problem with being alble to change the font background is everything will look very blocky. As all the labels would have a coloured block behind them like the Album labels.
Ok, well, how 'bout a compromise?
Had a chance to test on my laptop and on my primary juke machine.
You guys are right, for some reason the compiled version doesn't work but it is 100% working from the source ??? I am looking into it now
Ninjaepisode's Tag issue:I will have to catch you on msn to check this out some more, you could try re-launching the config.exe and see how many songs it says that album should have...
I think i have fixed it, it will happen if your ID3V2 tag is there but the fields are blank. I have now added a fix for the jukebox and it displays Empty Tag if this is the case and lists all the tracks. Give me a shout on MSN and i'll send you a test exe over. If it works i will release it on here with the pin logging fix in and a couple of others things i have just fixed up. ;)
Hi Barry,
sorry but the version 1530 have an new bug. :P
If I set up the 6 cover sight in the configuration and save these,
and restart the freebox program again, I get every time the 4 cover sight.
The configuration isn`t save. Can you help please?
Ok, Barcrest.
I have tried installing this 3X & keep getting the following error:
Run-time error '9'
Subscript out of range
Then it boots me out. Anyone else running into this?
Like the progress....
1604:
Totally blank options in Button Settings/Sort Albums by/Key shortcuts
Album View method seems to use more harddisk thrashing? I could be imagining. Swaps before all pics are loaded....
I only use Metal skin, but it appears bottoms buttons (for searching etc...) are underneath the slider bar in 1024 and 800x600?
Can't get rid of video/kareoke tabs (no option)
Ok what is confusing me is the hard disk thrashing? I am unaware of this being any different to normal. Basically all it does is load up the album covers when you browse and read in the tags for the currently playing song. I must admit i have been tweaking the code more and more for speed so it could be is your swap file going nuts if you don't have much memory as part of the speed increases have wacked up the memory usage again as i am using a fair few arrays to hold all the information. If you are running on a system with very little memory then this could be why your HD is going nuts. Rest assured AFAIK it is not doing anything other than what i have just stated.
Ok what is confusing me is the hard disk thrashing? I am unaware of this being any different to normal. Basically all it does is load up the album covers when you browse and read in the tags for the currently playing song. I must admit i have been tweaking the code more and more for speed so it could be is your swap file going nuts if you don't have much memory as part of the speed increases have wacked up the memory usage again as i am using a fair few arrays to hold all the information. If you are running on a system with very little memory then this could be why your HD is going nuts. Rest assured AFAIK it is not doing anything other than what i have just stated.
I guess thrashing is a bad word. For me at least. I can definitely tell when it's accessing the system, usually to load album art, such as in a page forward type situation. I guess maybe I'm just paying more attention to it?
YOu guys sounded like i was wrecking your systems.. Anyway her eis the new build, it's late and i have been the pub and had 6 Newcastle Browns. However i am still confident this has fixed your problems and not made any more.. If it has list em, if i missed any list em. I got to go and join the g/f in bed, sorry dudes but i am beat.
DOWNLOAD:http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1610.zip
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/files/beta/setup1611.zip
Blame it on the beer
visit the site for more info and cools skins thanks to ninja episode...
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/
mail me if you have any skins and i will upload em
Bye
Not sure if this is for Barcrest or Ninja but...FYI
The pictures of the skins, at least for me while using Firefox, do not show up. It works fine in IE. I think Firefox must be a bit more "unforgiving" than IE when it comes to code. I took a look at the html code and it appears you're missing an end tag ( > ) after the code for each of the jpg's. And each of the <a href> tags probably need a closing tag </a> as well. For example:
Current line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"<BR>
New line:
<a href="files\skins\PCClone.zip"><img src="picts\pcclone.jpg"></a><BR>
This may take care of it, I haven't tried it.
bug?/feature:
When I am in Metal skin (12 on show), it looks nice, with the text of artist/album printed on a black strap above/below each pic. (cuts off pic).
Switching to touchclone skin, the pic is now shown in full with nothing cut, with the text on top - making it completely unreadable. Is this part of the skin? Can you bring the black strap back or make a shadow drop for the text to make it readable?
Can you make it so the menu on the left only has the three most important features like Search, Top 20, and something else? I think that would be a good feature.
BUG:
Go to options, select random play settings, click on the text at the top "Random Play Options"... and the entire options screen and buttons all dissapear!
BUG: I've changed the Album Frame image using the Skin Tool by selecting a .jpg image in the texture viewer. However, "AlbumFrameTextureNew3.bmp" is always loaded as the Album Frame for the first album in the list. All the others are the correct selected .jpg. For now, I've gone back to using the filename AlbumFrameTextureNew3.bmp so all the frames load correctly.
BUG: Go to options, select random play settings, click on the text at the top "Random Play Options"... and the entire options screen and buttons all dissapear!
Barcrest,
Do you think that there could be an option to have the track listing in expanded mode to have the song names as buttons to be easier to hit for touchscreen users? Just an idea. Thanks
Barcrest,
love the program. working on building a jukebox and trying different programs to use. while trying your software i found a few bugs and thought i would post them.
Bug: in the appearance settings options when i set the track display options to "use database for track names" or "use filename for names" and restart the program it will not play songs or add songs to the queue, but when random play is turned on random songs will play fine. Reinstalling the program fixes the problem, but making the above changes again will cause it not to work right after restarting it.
Bug: the add entire album button and the add album to carosuel are reversed. pressing the add to carosuel button actually adds the entire album to the queue.
Bug: the credits display does not refresh when credits are deducted from the total credits. also when you start the program with the freeplay option the credit display does not display freeplay. and it is possible using credit mode to go into negative credits and still keep playing.
Bug: in the config program i can't remove albums from the database. i get "runtime error '5': invalid procedure call or argument" and the program closes.
keep the updates coming!!
If you are tagged prooperly it should work.
Hey
When selecting an album in the newest version, it always shows the album art for the album in the bottom right corner of the main screen.
Good job dude ;D One question? Is the year supposed to be where it is on the track listing screen or is that a bug?
Mr. C. We can mirror these downloads if you would like, or I'll be happy to host them altogether. Let me know.
Beautiful work!
looking real nice....
and I've had a couple of "runtime overflows" when switching skins, but not sure exactly what as I can't always repeat it....
Also - should I be seeing the text at the top/bottom of each album? it flashes up when I chage screen but is then covered by the album art.....
see attached, not text with albums....
Niice Album Art. 8)
New test version uploaded... Please pop over and give me your feedback ASAP.
http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/forum/index.php?topic=87.msg405#msg405
Thanks guys. ;D
He just did a major change last week, so he has had to literally recode almost everything. Check out the forum at www.freeboxjukebox.com (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com), and post anything you find. Most of the time he already knows the bugs, but that is a great place to cross reference and give feedback.
WOW! I took the source code home last night to have a play and tidy it up and all i can say is WOW! The speed of browsing the album covers cannot be made any faster, i refuse to see any way it can be quicker than it is now. The page flicks are instant now...
It turned out decades was not quite working but i fixed that up, however i still need to look at the jump to album code and tidy up the config.exe to get that working correctly. I still don't have the web at home and i don't have the FTP settings with me so i might have to upload this one via rapid share. Maybe Ninja or someone will grab it and put it on the site after i have uploaded it...
Stay tuned, i am sure you will be impressed.
AFAIK, all features that had stopped working are now working again
Barcrest:
I've wanted to take a look at your software in the past few weeks, but apparently your download links are broken on your site. Is it just me, or si there a larger issue?
In a word no. I could probably make it play unprotected ones but i am not sure how the tags work on AAC files.
BarCrest glad to hear your back or well not gone or whatever. ;)
I've been playing with his Jukebox for roughly 3weeks and I finally broke down and picked up a touch screen monitor. Heres a little short video of it working. Its not the greatest camera work, but I just picked up the monitor yesterday and I was so excited to try it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034WYtk0Uwc
And yes I do own all the CDS in my collection. ;)
Barry, why don't you just ask Saint for a board area here. He has done it for others. :dunnothat would work also Barry.
BarCrest glad to hear your back or well not gone or whatever. ;)
I've been playing with his Jukebox for roughly 3weeks and I finally broke down and picked up a touch screen monitor. Heres a little short video of it working. Its not the greatest camera work, but I just picked up the monitor yesterday and I was so excited to try it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034WYtk0Uwc
And yes I do own all the CDS in my collection. ;)
Don't know if you noticed but there is an option in there to hide the mouse pointer. Usfull for fullscreen with a touchscreen interface, just looks a little tidier. That looks cool dude...
Hew Squirrel if you can set up a temporary forum that would be sweet.
I guess, it was the Touchtone or similarly skin?
Sorry I say that, but you did have learn a lesson to NOT borrowing a skin from a another jukebox applications, without get the permission first. This is of course illigal, and the company would sue you before or later.
But i have to ask: Would did he not close down forum in meanstream mode, and just delete all threads, that have these skins? This is what, I would do.
I really hope you got the site up running again, and of course remove all competers skins as well (unless these, you have permission for).
I guess, it was the Touchtone or similarly skin?
Sorry I say that, but you did have learn a lesson to NOT borrowing a skin from a another jukebox applications, without get the permission first. This is of course illigal, and the company would sue you before or later.
But i have to ask: Would did he not close down forum in meanstream mode, and just delete all threads, that have these skins? This is what, I would do.
I really hope you got the site up running again, and of course remove all competers skins as well (unless these, you have permission for).
I hope you setup some rules in the Skin Releases forum, since Im dosen't want to see skins from other jukebox applications.
This is a illigal, and should been avoid at all! If you got a permission first, of course this is a another story.
So write some simple rules.
Good luck and welcome back
Space Fractal
Kizer
I was looking at your sig and I noticed your file naming setup (E:\MP3s\F\Foo Fighters\Skin And Bones\15 - Everlong.mp3) is this the best file structure for freebox?
Kizer
I was looking at your sig and I noticed your file naming setup (E:\MP3s\F\Foo Fighters\Skin And Bones\15 - Everlong.mp3) is this the best file structure for freebox?
the old public version used about 3gb bandwidth each month (much lower than I can use on my webhotel). So just upload the new public version to (I have not changed your ftp account, even I have my own jukebox software).
Was these private downloads due to the bandwitch limits (not the forum)?
But fun name for that version ;D. Hehe
the old public version used about 3gb bandwidth each month (much lower than I can use on my webhotel). So just upload the new public version to (I have not changed your ftp account, even I have my own jukebox software).
Was these private downloads due to the bandwitch limits (not the forum)?
But fun name for that version ;D. Hehe