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Mameham:

--- Quote from: Chris on September 26, 2002, 11:19:38 am ---
If you were to exclude the Background = bgimage.bmp line, the background would be plain black.  One could increase the label area to fill the screen instead...

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Cool... now I just need it! :) hehe.

Oh, and, here's a long term goal - external lcd support... though I have yet to fork over the money for the hardware myself anyway, so, like I said, _long term_ goal... hehe.

Oh, btw, how are the mp3 files sorted?

Chris:
Right now, they are sorted randomly, as they would be on a real 45-style jukebox.  I have had requests for a CD-style jukebox layout option, where all songs in a folder appear together so they can be grouped by album, so I'll probably add this, along with a way to turn off  the random sort for 45-style labels.

As far as driving an external display: Mouser Electronics carries 20x4 LCD Seiko displays; backlit are $35.00 and non-backlit are $25.12.  (See http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=fra_pdfset&pdffile=175)  Two of these would cover the current song and coming song displays.  They include controller circuits, so theoretically I should be able to send a display to them through the parallel or serial ports....

Mameham:
 Yeah, I could definately use the non-randomness, esp if I end up going with a hand written display card... :)

The LCDs are cool. :) Might take away from the retro look I'm trying to create, but I'm sure it'd be cool for other purposes...

Any idea why my P133 laptop gets a blue screen of death after about 6 songs with the jukebox? Does your mp3 decoder support VBR Mp3s?

Chris:
If all you want is a display to show the selection numbers (the two-digit display that shows which buttons you've pressed), that's easy.  Again, not retro, but any display would be non-retro...

I've never tried a VBR MP3.  The decoder I'm using is based on MPG123 (http://www.mpg123.com/).  I used to use Amp, but songs would suddenly die for no reason every now and then, and Amp gave me no way of finding the song length.

What OS are you using?  I've played MP3s for hours with the DOS version, but since I don't use the Windows version on a regular basis, I could have some sort of leak there...

(In fact, all of the reported problems have been in the Windows version... almost makes me want to abandon Windows and concentrate on DOS again...)

--Chris

Mameham:
Well I love DOS myself, but the flakey laptop only loves Windows... hehe... 98 to be exact. The odd thing is, using the same setup (software wise anyway...) on my desktop machine doesn't crash... It's okay though, I'm very much looking at the possibility of dumping the laptop all together... cheaper, larger, hard drives and faster, cheaper, processors... just gotta find a mb on ebay with something like a 200mhz cpu and audio & video built in...

- Eric

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