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DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox 3.0 Beta 1 Released
Chris:
--- Quote from: froggerman on September 27, 2004, 02:02:19 am ---I was wondering if you have the files for the Jukebox single labels in an editable form that you could share with me. I am looking to remove the shading on the left side, but I like the paper texture that you have used.
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The only other form I have is PCX versions of the same images. These are lossless, so they'll be better for editing than the JPG versions. I'm E-mailing them to you.
--Chris
Silver:
Hi Chris,
In addition to my question about genres further back, I was also wondering about how your program accesses the mp3/ogg files....
I've set up beta3 with no problems, but I've added a music directory on another pc connected by a 11g wireless network. Database generation is as expected slow over this - no problem, I generate it locally and copy over the db - but song access is also quite delayed. But opening the exact same song in Foobar/Windows media player gives instant playback. Is Wincab downloading the whole file before playing back? Or scanning the file first? If so is there anyway to either turn this off or use an exernal player (ideally foobar due to low cpu requirements) instead of your inbuilt allegro one? Ideally I'd like to keep yours so I can cut out everything else but some songs have 20 seconds or more delay before starting.
Any tips/thoughts? Otherwise awesome though!
Chris:
--- Quote from: Silver on September 27, 2004, 10:16:55 am ---I've set up beta3 with no problems, but I've added a music directory on another pc connected by a 11g wireless network. Database generation is as expected slow over this - no problem, I generate it locally and copy over the db - but song access is also quite delayed. But opening the exact same song in Foobar/Windows media player gives instant playback. Is Wincab downloading the whole file before playing back? Or scanning the file first?
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The entire file is loaded into memory first. I may be able to stream the file instead as an option; I originally didn't go that rout because I didn't want to chance hiccups in the file, and loading over a hard drive only took a second or two.
--Chris
Silver:
Ah that clears that one up....
I've done a bit of experimenting and its not too bad on a small highly comprised file, but a lot of my stuff is somewhat larger ogg files - some up to 8 megs or so. I also have a few Mixes - read 20-100meg - which would completey hold up the system.
Obviously streaming in my case would be perfect, although I appreciate I have no idea how hard that would be to impliment - although I imagine its easier in wincab than doscab. Probably should have tested all this out before building a wireless mini-itx 7"touchscreen mobile jukebox ;-)
If you do think about implimenting it then let me know! otherwise, you still have a great program...
Cheers, Silver
Chris:
--- Quote from: Silver on September 27, 2004, 11:29:08 am ---Obviously streaming in my case would be perfect, although I appreciate I have no idea how hard that would be to impliment - although I imagine its easier in wincab than doscab.
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It'll be the same either way, although in DOS it'll be critical to make sure SmartDrive is loaded in the AUTOEXEC.BAT. I abstracted out all of the music playing commands some time ago just so I could bolt these sorts of things on without too much trouble. Are you volunteering as my low-speed network streaming beta tester? :)
--Chris
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