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AMI Disco 200 Jukebox Project
Chris:
You'll almost certainly have to replace the display... just trying to think about how to go about designing a circuit I can talk to... or see if there's some serial LED controller out there.
Kevin Mullins:
Just edited a few more "Artist" tags and it seems to be working fine like it's suppose to now every time. :dunno
It seems like I had read about a serial led (actual digits)controller of some sort on one of the other forums. Might have to go take a look around.
Kevin Mullins:
:angry: Just wrote up a whole lengthy speal of an update and lost it all when I went to post it. (attached a wrong file type...oops)
Anyways.... back on the project, got the actual juke now, things are looking good and should work out easy enough once I finish figuring the software out. And it's got a cool array of like eight lights in the base of it that should flash in relationship to the music via a controller if I get it working also.
Is it possible to change the numbering sequence to start at 100 when using the singles skins?
The CD skins want to put everything up by album (of course) which creates "pages", therefore I had duplicate numbers. (101 x2, 201 x2, etc)
Or would I have to edit all the music tags and eliminate the artist/album, etc?
I was having pretty good success with the "testskin" and getting it to do what I wanted, except for the numbering issue. I hadn't put all the strips in that are needed yet until I had figured the numberng parts out. And I added some buttons to the top right, just no graphics yet. The point of doing all that was to play with the numbering and also the "sequence" of the numbering. This AMI Disco has an alternating numbering sequence between the 100's and the 200's running vertically. (the test skin is numbered horizontally right now)
Example of the AMI sequence:
Seven columns wide, thirty songs in each column .... except for the middle(third) one, it only has 20 songs. (30x6=180 +20x1=200 songs total)
100
200
101
201
102
202
103
203
etc.
Is there any pro's and con's I'm missing as far as using individual strips versus a strip grid?
Any pointers, suggestions, slap upside the head to get me going in the right direction on the numbering issue?
Also started looking up some potential ideas for driving the three digit led display:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/10431
http://wiki.tcl.tk/10439
Now I'm no programmer at all, so if anyone could let me know if these are easily possible I would appreciate it. The hardware aspect of it is no problem, I'm lost on the whole "tcl" coding stuff, but otherwise looks simple enough to do.
There are actually a couple other standard leds on the selection display which might be an option to play with getting to light as well, but not neccissary, the digits would be awesome though. The other small led's are "make selection", "reset and make another selection", "now playing", "your selection". Those are just lights that light up when that particular function is requested.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on October 15, 2006, 02:37:24 pm ---Is it possible to change the numbering sequence to start at 100 when using the singles skins?
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Not yet. Currently, the only way to start at 100 is to use a 2 CD skin. I'm working on it.
--- Quote ---The CD skins want to put everything up by album (of course) which creates "pages", therefore I had duplicate numbers. (101 x2, 201 x2, etc)
Or would I have to edit all the music tags and eliminate the artist/album, etc?
--- End quote ---
Yeah, for now you would have to make all the albums the same.
--- Quote ---Is there any pro's and con's I'm missing as far as using individual strips versus a strip grid?
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Individual strips can be positioned anywhere, wheras grids are always in grids. Of course, grids are what you want 99% of the time... Also, strips are numbered in order, so if you want an unusual numbering arrangement you may need to use individual strips.
--- Quote ---Any pointers, suggestions, slap upside the head to get me going in the right direction on the numbering issue?
--- End quote ---
No, I just need to get off my tail and write the code to support it.
Also started looking up some potential ideas for driving the three digit led display:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/10431
http://wiki.tcl.tk/10439
Now I'm no programmer at all, so if anyone could let me know if these are easily possible I would appreciate it. The hardware aspect of it is no problem, I'm lost on the whole "tcl" coding stuff, but otherwise looks simple enough to do.[/quote]
Well, I wouldn't use TCL, but I could do the same thing in C... time to go shopping at Mouser!
--- Quote ---There are actually a couople other standard leds on the selection display which might be an option to play with getting to light as well, but not neccissary, the digits would be awesome though. The other small led's are "make selection", "reset and make another selection", "now playing", "your selection". Those are just lights that light up when that particular function is requested.
--- End quote ---
Can you get me a close-up picture of these?
Thanks!
--Chris
Kevin Mullins:
Well, at least it seems I'm on the right track in figuring out the software options.
I'm not totally lost yet.....
I'll keep playing with it some. I'm keeping it a no frills simple application.
Just enough to function.
Thanks for clarifying those points I had questions on.
I'll try to get a couple close-ups of the digit display and LED's.
(the macro on my camera hasn't been working for close-ups)
I'm assuming you want the circuit trace portion right?
It seems like a pretty straight forward layout, easy to trace out.
I'm also contimplating sticking a regular stereo in there to have a true radio option and also to amp the sound from the pc. There's like a total of 5 speakers in this thing, the two in the base are at least 8", the other three are 4.5-5". I figured instead of throwing a simple amp in there why not give it the radio options with a remote and all that jive. Not sure yet though. :dunno
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